The Ledger
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Heffernan: Business schools rely on predetermined case studies instead of teaching history
“And history is almost never taught in business schools. It's all the live case studies. Or the case studies, you know, where the ending is known, and therefore implicitly, structurally looks predetermined.”
Heffernan: Data suggests most corporate restructurings fail
“Well, I mean, the data suggests that most of them won't work.”
Heffernan: Research Disproves Myths That Whistleblowers Are Mostly Women or Religious
“There's a mythology that says they're mostly women, and the research doesn't bear that out. There's mythology that says they're people of faith, the research doesn't bear that out.”
Heffernan: There is no evidence Charles Darwin was a social Darwinist
“There's no evidence that Darwin was a social Darwinist.”
Heffernan: BP held years of consultant reports warning of Texas City site danger
“Whereas if you take, for example, what I wrote about the deep water, not deep water, Texas City accident at the BP plant, there are years of consultant reports talking about how dangerous the site is. So, you know, that were commissioned by BP and sitting in f…”
Heffernan: NYU research shows employees suppress concerns from fear or perceived futility
“In addition you know, there's this fabulous research on organizational silence by Morrison and Millican at NYU that shows that people have issues and concerns at work, but they don't voice them either because they're afraid that they'll be labeled troublemaker…”