In 2007, as opinion was shifting, Professor Gushee of Mercer University helped write "An Evangelical Declaration Against Torture".
Under the stress of Parmalat's failure, though, institutional creditors, including banks and bondholders, may finally force Italian companies to shift strategy, Professor Carnevale Maffé added.
"This move by Georgetown represents the beginning of what we might call a "climate shift," said Professor Frank Leon Roberts from New York University.
"Some of the core elements of the social safety net have eroded," said Jacob Hacker, author of "The Great Risk Shift" and a professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley.
Welsh Labour has been in steep decline over the past few years, while Ukip has surged, a shift Welsh expert Professor Roger Scully has called "the biggest polling movement no one has heard of".
Paradigm shift or not, professors, experts, and leaders have been talking about a new level of leadership for some time now.
Kahn, the Princeton professor, shifted her focus toward animal health after taking a course on weapons of mass destruction shortly after 9/11 and the 2001 anthrax attacks frightened the country.
If we want students to be successful in science, mathematics, and technology in higher education, we must shift from a professor-centered lecture paradigm to a student-centered learning paradigm (Harkness, unpublished, paper at 101st American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC).
"It is a huge shift," said Michael F. Goodchild, a professor of geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
"This is not going to be any wrenching cultural shift," said Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a professor at the Harvard Business School.
