An entire management field deals with the challenge of organizational change, and the field is replete with scholars, journals, consultants, degree programs and more.
As well as conferences, journals, websites, consultants, the new urbanists have their city rankings.
Academic journals, compensation-consultant white papers and even corporate proxy statements (typically in the section introducing wildly extravagant pay plans) are filled with the apple-pie watchwords of prudent compensation: "transparency," "independence" (of board compensation committees), "long-term" and, of course, "performance".
DOW JONES Night of the Living Buyout Funds | Out of roughly 10,000 private equity funds raised over the past decade, at least 200 are considered zombie funds, charging investors fees with little hope of reaping profit on assets, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing consultants at TorreyCove Capital Partners.
In 1998, however, the Wall Street Journal confirmed that a consultant on the Kochs' payroll had been involved in the scheme.
Eric Cohen, 26, is the director of the biotechnology and American democracy program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington; the editor of its journal, New Atlantis; a consultant to the President's Council on Bioethics; and a contributor to The Weekly Standard.
A prodigious writer, he penned more than 250 items including books and articles in collections and academic journals, and was a consultant to many international development agencies.
His own investigating of which research is filtering through to the journals managers and consultants might actually read has convinced him that inductive research study which seeks to proceed without preconceptions, preferring to observe organisational behaviour and then to draw conclusions on what it finds is much more likely to be applied in the real world than any other kind.
Dave remained an active public health professional throughout his life, serving as a reviewer for the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal and as active volunteer consultant on public health matters, most recently pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza.
Throughout her career, in addition to teaching and writing books, Burns contributed numerous articles to professional journals and served as a consultant to several federal agencies.
