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Daily Archives: March 10, 2022

Over 300 Companies Have Withdrawn from Russia – But Some Remain

“Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld is the Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies & Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, at Yale University. Professor Sonnenfeld has compiled and is updating a listing of 40 companies that remain operating in Russia, with significant business risk exposure. Here is a link to his work on this matter and an updated list of companies via Yale School of Management.

“Professor Sonnenfeld’s related research has been published in 100 scholarly articles which appeared in the leading academic journals in management such as Administrative Sciences Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Organizational BehaviorSocial ForcesHuman Relations, and Human Resource Management. He has also authored eight books, including The Hero’s Farewell, an award-winning study of CEO succession, and another best seller, Firing Back, a study on leadership resilience in the face of adversity. Professor Sonnenfeld earned the 2018 Ellis Island award from the US Ellis Island Foundation. He was Harvard’s first John Whitehead Faculty Fellow and won outstanding educator awards at Yale, Emory and the American Society for Training and Development. His work is regularly cited by the general media in such outlets as: BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, the Economist, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, CBS (60 Minutes), NBC (The Today Show), ABC (Nightline, Good Morning America), CNN, and Fox News, as well as PBS, where he is a regular commentator for FORTUNE and CNBC. BusinessWeek listed Sonnenfeld as one of the world’s 10 most influential business school professors and Directorship magazine has listed him among the 100 most influential figures in corporate governance. He is the first academician to have rung the opening bells of both the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.”

UK House of Commons Library on Ukraine Crisis

“This page features Commons Library publications relevant to the current crisis in Ukraine. On 24 February 2022 Russia launched military action in Ukraine, with forces crossing into the country from Belarus in the north, Russia in the east and Crimea in the south. President Putin has said Russia, acting in self defence, was launching a… Continue Reading

DeepMind AI tool helps historians restore ancient texts

The Register: “AI software can help historians interpret and date ancient texts by reconstructing works destroyed over time, according to a new paper published in Nature. A team of computer scientists and experts in classical studies led by DeepMind and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice trained a transformer-based neural network to restore inscriptions written in… Continue Reading

Stress in America Money, inflation, war pile on to nation stuck in COVID-19 survival mode

“March 11, 2022, marks the second anniversary of the COVID-19 global pandemic declaration by the World Health Organization. In the two years since that declaration, virtually all aspects of life have been altered. To better understand the impact of the past two years on individual stress, the American Psychological Association partnered with The Harris Poll… Continue Reading

Russians Are Finding Ways Around Putin’s Internet Blockade

Bloomberg – “Providers of virtual private networks, or VPNs, are recording a surge in usage from Russia after the Kremlin cracked down on Facebook and other services as part of a broader effort to silence dissent and limit information about its invasion of Ukraine. “In the past week, we saw traffic to our website from… Continue Reading

Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people

MCDREEAMIE-MUSINGS – Human Factors, Presentation Skills – “We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously reading them off as we read along. We’re so used to it we expect it. We accept it. We even consider it ‘learning’. As an educator I push against ‘death by… Continue Reading

In final hours, Indiana lawmakers revive and then kill book-banning bill

IndyStar – “In the final hours of the legislative session, lawmakers revived and then promptly killed a bill that would have criminalized teachers and librarians who exposed kids to books and other materials that some may find obscene. Critics of the bill say it’s unnecessary — schools already have processes in place to deal with book… Continue Reading

Toronto’s Best Friends: The City’s Most Popular Dog Breeds

Wonderful example of data journalism using tableau public via Tom Johnson: Toronto’s Best Friends: The City’s Most Popular Dog Breeds. See also WeRateDogs “not sure if you’ll believe this… but the dogs of 2021 were good again this year Produced by: Matt Nelson (WeRateDogs) and West Webb (Legacy Content) Edited by: Cole Diepholz (Legacy Content)… Continue Reading