Curiosity Category
How international assignments can develop global leadership capacities
Posted on June 16, 2017 Leave a Comment
In a recent post in The Economist blog Gulliver, B.R. writes that businesses should encourage young employees to take “bleisure” (blending business with pleasure) when they travel abroad, like an extra weekend on one end for personal time. The benefit being that “it might help keep employees’ enthusiasm for a life on the road kindled.” […]
Being Good Consumers of Research
Posted on September 24, 2016 Leave a Comment
September 24, 2016 If there is one common goal across graduate programs in the social sciences it is for students to become good consumers of research. Unfortunately, when it comes to reading academic articles, it seems like most of us graduate students read the introduction, skip the methods/discussion/limitations, and go straight for the conclusion. Here […]
A nice lesson from a somewhat arbitrary read
Posted on September 18, 2015 Leave a Comment
Sometimes the best books are the ones you end up reading somewhat arbitrarily. A book such as this for me has been The Life and Work of George Boole: Prelude to the Digital Age by Desmond MacHale. George Boole, as you may know, is the founder of Boolean Logic and Boolean Algebra. Perhaps one of […]
Cosmopolitan curiosity
Posted on April 26, 2015 1 Comment
After living in Thailand for four years, I’ve become increasingly interested in anything I can get my hands on (and head around) that deals with living and working in mutually satisfying relationships across cultures. In my work with Dr. Maria Cseh in the Global Competence Enrichment Program at GW, we pair up international and American […]
Oliver S. Crocco 