Although recognized as a medical scientist, the work of Frederick Mott as a physician, educator and clinical policymaker has been overshadowed. As a late entrant to the asylum system, Mott questioned established practices of treating mentally-ill patients and campaigned for reform. During World War I, entrusted with the management of the Maudsley neurological section, he sought to raise clinica...

A Washington adage holds that someone commits a “gaffe” when he inadvertently tells the truth. This seemed to be what a U.S. policymaker did two decades ago when he mused about the limits to U.S. power in the post-Cold War era. On May 25, 1993, just four months into the Clinton Administration, a certain senior government official—the new Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and a forme...

Setting. Assume the set of possible types for the policymaker is Θ ≡ {θ1, θ2, . . . , θT} ⊂ R, where T ≥ 2 (T ∈ N), θi > θi−1 for all i ∈ {2, . . . , T}, and 0 ∈ Θ. Denote the prior on a politician’s type by the vector p ≡ (p1, . . . , pT ) where pi is the probability of type θi. For convenience, we also write p[θ] for the probability that p assigns to type θ. For now we consider only the polic...

Eta Kappa Nu is a unique membership organization dedicated to encouraging and recognizing excellence in the electrical and computer engineering fields. Student members are selected on the basis of scholastic standing, character, and leadership. Through a variety of service programs and leadership training, student members develop lifelong skills that better prepare them for life post-graduation...

A small number of researchers have long been interested in organizational learning. Scholars sought to understand how organizations learn behaviorally over time from experience (March and Olsen 1975) and showed how cultures are created and maintained that prevent learning (Argyris and Schön 1978, 1996). They described organizations as having a collective memory, and looked at ways in which info...

Eta Kappa Nu is a unique membership organization dedicated to encouraging and recognizing excellence in the electrical and computer engineering fields. Student members are selected on the basis of scholastic standing, character, and leadership. Through a variety of service programs and leadership training, student members develop lifelong skills that better prepare them for life post-graduation...

This paper is concerned with the three-way trade-off between coordination, specialization and adaptation, and its implications for organizational design. Every organized activity gives rise to two conßicting requirements: the division of labor into manageable tasks and the coordination of these tasks to ensure harmonious execution. In a stable environment, however, coordination can be trivially...

People with similar conceptions of life or shared interests organize themselves in various ways into associations. This is also true of migrants who form organizations because of their common cultural, political, economic or social interests and values. Roughly one-fifth of the German population has a so-called migration background which means that they can point to their own experiences with m...

Eta Kappa Nu is a unique membership organization dedicated to encouraging and recognizing excellence in the electrical and computer engineering fields. Student members are selected on the basis of scholastic standing, character, and leadership. Through a variety of service programs and leadership training, student members develop lifelong skills that better prepare them for life post-graduation...