We argue that changes in the nature of work in 21st-century organizations have led to the emergence of star performers—a few individuals who contribute a disproportionate amount of output. We describe how stars negate the long-held belief that the distribution of individual performance is normal and, instead, suggest an underlying power law distribution. In addition, we offer 9 propositions to ...

The discourse of practitioners in the domain of information science has been changing fundamentally in the last decade. The author’s contention is that its centre has shifted from a predominant concern with technique (starting with topics like acquisitions and moving through cataloguing and conservation to user education and beyond), towards engagement with a range of issues (such as intellectu...

Fifty years after Briggs and King first succeeded in obtaining normal tadpoles from transplanted embryo nuclei in vertebrates, two general principles have emerged from work in amphibia and mammals. One is the conservation of the genome during cell differentiation. A small percentage of adult or differentiated cells have totipotent nuclei, and a much higher percentage of cells committed to one p...

The twentieth century has been characterized by four important social trends that have fundamentally changed the social cultural context in which children develop: women's increased labor force participation, increased absence of nonresidential fathers in the lives of their children, increased involvement of fathers in intact families, and increased cultural diversity in the U.S.. In this essay...

Human capital resources are key for organizations to gain a competitive advantage. Learning based on formal training and development programs, informal learning, and knowledge sharing influences the development of human capital resources. This article provides a selective review of research on learning that occurs inmany different forms and at the individual, team, and organizational levels. It...

FALL 1992 71 By the year 2000, there will be a large potential market and a fertile environment for knowledge-based software engineering (KBSE). In the coming decade, hardware improvements will stimulate demand for large and sophisticated application software, and standardization of software interfaces and operating systems will intensify competition among software developers. In this environme...

* Paris School of Economics, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, France (e-mail: [email protected]). All statistical series and theoretical models used in this article and in my book are available in an online technical Appendix (http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/capital21c). Updated series are also available on the World Top Incomes Database (WTID) website (http//topincomes.parisschoolofeconomics.eu)....

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University, Boston MA, USA *Email: [email protected] Thank you so much, Professor Yacoub. It’s a great honor for me to participate in this conference. I thank you for your vision and your tremendous energy and for everything that you have and are and will accomplish in cardiovascular surgery and science. I’m going to talk about the first century of hy...

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 1289 I. THE NATURE AND COMPONENTS OF FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIPS AND THE RISKS THE RELATIONSHIPS POSE TO BOTH PARTIES .......... 1293 A. Components of Fiduciary Relationships .................................... 1293 B. While Fiduciaries’ Services Provide Benefits to Entrustors, the Services I...