Management professors in the news - Brayden King & jerry kim - on umpires and status bias
From tomorrow's New York Times: Brayden King (Northwestern University) and Jerry Kim (Columbia University), What Umpires Get Wrong, New York Times, March 30, 2014: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/opinion/sunday/what-umpires-get-wrong.html .
After coming across this, I went to Brayden's Facebook profile https://www.facebook.com/brayden.king.5492 where comments were already coming.
Charles Wankel: Brayden, could you craft a student assignment to go with your article?
Brayden King: Hmm, maybe. What were you imagining? Creating a scenario where students commit a similar error?
Charles Wankel Perhaps having them speculate on such situations. What scenarios would you suggest?
Jerry home page is: http://www.jerry-kim.net/
This study is forthcoming: Seeing Stars: Matthew Effects and Status Bias in Major League Baseball Umpiring. Management Science. A working paper draft is at: http://www.jerry-kim.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/KimKing-SeeingStars-Mar2014.pdf
If any of you Mg-Ed-Dv-ers have ideas for framing an assignment on Brayden's study share it with us!
Also, I invite you to add me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wankelc and LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/wankelc/ .
All the best,
Charles
Mg-Ed-Dv list director (Academy of Management, Management Education and Development Division Discussion Forum)
Professor of Management, St. John's University, New York http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~wankelc