Management as a Profession by Khurana, Rakesh, Nohria, Nitin, Penrice, Daniel

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Brokerage Professions and Implementing Reform in an Age of Experts by Kellogg, Katherine C.

“…By playing a buffering role in the interstices between existing professional jurisdictions, lower-status workers can carve out their own jurisdiction, becoming a brokerage profession between existing professions that need to collaborate with one another for reform to occur.…”
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The 24-Hour Knowledge Factory: Can It Replace the Graveyard Shift? by Gupta, Amar

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Ombuds Jobs are Proliferating, and Characterized by Diversity by Rowe, Mary

Subjects: “…ombuds, organizational ombuds, ombudsman, ombuds profession, complaint handling…”
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Reading Through a Plan: A Visual Theory of Plan Interpretation by Ryan, Brent D.

“…Problem: Planners may read plans often, but the profession continues to view the interpretation of plan content as something that is either too obvious or too unimportant to require explicit discussion. …”
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The Journal of Economic Perspectives at 100 (Issues) by Autor, David H.

“…Like any empiricist, I recognize that the counterfactual world that would exist without the JEP is unknowable, but my strong hunch is that our profession would be worse off in that counterfactual world. …”
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The Pursuit of Acquisition Intrapreneurs by Forseth, Christopher

“…The research focused on identifying Acquisition Intrapreneurs, viewed and defined for the purpose of this research as, individuals within the acquisition profession who take direct responsibility for turning ideas into products through assertive risk taking. …”
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Part Time Partner Redux: So We Solved the Problem, Didn't We? by Kochan, Thomas

“…This case shows that formal policies have failed to overcome the informal norms or culture that penalized professionals for deviating from what was engrained in the minds of senior partners and others in the profession as the "ideal worker." …”
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The elephant in the room: constraints and consequences of a four-year undergraduate engineering degree by Silbey, Susan S.

“…Engineering is the only profession for which candidates can be licensed with only an undergraduate degree. …”
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Reading About the Financial Crisis: A Twenty-One-Book Review by Lo, Andrew W.

“…No single narrative emerges from this broad and often contradictory collection of interpretations, but the sheer variety of conclusions is informative, and underscores the desperate need for the economics profession to establish a single set of facts from which more accurate inferences and narratives can be constructed.…”
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Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in Library Technical Services by Kauffman, Rhonda Y, Anderson, Martina S

“…This chapter presents the historical context of DISJ within the library profession and the MIT Libraries, discusses implications of this paradigm shift for library technical services departments, and presents cataloging and acquisitions job profiles to help readers envision the practical significance for library staff of the imperative to incorporate DISJ values into the regular practice of their work.…”
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Booms, Busts, and the World of Ideas: Enrollment Pressures and the Challenge of Specialization by Kaiser, David I.

“…Drawing on examples from the postwar physics profession in the United States, I suggest that simple quantitative methods can aid in elucidating patterns that cut across isolated case studies, suggesting themes and questions that can guide close, archival research.…”
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Vortex Dynamics in Flow Instabilities and Biomimetic Flows (Prof. Jin S. Chung Award Lecture, 2015) by Triantafyllou, Michael S

“…In turn, properties and discoveries that were made in the study of the swimming of fish and cetaceans, and bird flight, are entering now the engineering domain, suggesting new ways to control the flow and how to devise new technology, invigorating our profession.…”
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Professional Role Confidence and Gendered Persistence in Engineering by Cech, Erin, Rubineau, Brian, Seron, Caroll, Silbey, Susan S.

“…This study introduces professional role confidence—individuals’ confidence in their ability to successfully fulfill the roles, competencies, and identity features of a profession—and argues that women’s lack of this confidence, compared to men, reduces their likelihood of remaining in engineering majors and careers. …”
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Major Challenges To Education for Sustainable Development: Can the Current Nature of Institutions of Higher Education Hope to Educate the Change Agents Needed for Sustainable Devel... by Ashford, Nicholas A.

“…Moreover, engineers are known as ‘problem solvers’ and if economies are becoming unsustainable because of engineering, it is natural to ask whether engineering as an activity and as a profession can be re-directed toward achieving sustainable transformations. …”
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Major Challenges To Education for Sustainable Development: Can the Current Nature of Institutions of Higher Education Hope to Educate the Change Agents Needed for Sustainable Devel... by Ashford, Nicholas A.

“…Moreover, engineers are known as ‘problem solvers’ and if economies are becoming unsustainable because of engineering, it is natural to ask whether engineering as an activity and as a profession can be re-directed toward achieving sustainable transformations. …”
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Comparison of practical color application by visual artists in different fields : a sharing of their learning, teaching, and practical experience of color theory by Ng, Woon Lam

“…The background of these visual artists covers art educators, architects, fine artists (painters), a comic artist/an illustrator, a visual communication artist, a product designer, and a film-maker while a few of them have profession in more than one areas stated above.…”
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Revitalizing us manufacturing to capitalize on innovation - through education by Anthony, Brian, Hardt, David E.

“…It is based on the notion of a need for graduate level education in the profession of engineering that is not fulfilled by the conventional research- oriented Master of Science degree. …”
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Law Is Code: A Software Engineering Approach to Analyzing the United States Code by Li, William P., Azar, Pablo Daniel, Larochelle, David, Hill, Phil, Lo, Andrew W.

“…Our work is a timely illustration of computational approaches to law as the legal profession embraces technology for scholarship in order to increase efficiency and to improve access to justice.…”
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Uncertainty, Flexibility, Valuation & Design: How 21st Century Information & Knowledge Can Improve 21st Century Urban Development by Geltner, David M., de Neufville, Richard

“…In this paper we will review and synthesize two important methodological developments in our profession that can help infrastructure and real estate physical development (i.e., urban development) to be accomplished more effectively and efficiently in a world of uncertainty. …”
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