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Ken Schwaber
Software consultant and co-creator of Scrum, defining empirical process control and iterative inspection for product delivery teams.
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Ken Schwaber
Software consultant and co-creator of Scrum, defining empirical process control and iterative inspection for product delivery teams.
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Kenneth E. Warner
Public-health economist analyzing tobacco policy and industry strategies that externalize health costs.
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Kenneth E. Warner
Public-health economist analyzing tobacco policy and industry strategies that externalize health costs.
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Kenneth F. Schulz
Epidemiologist and methodologist studying publication bias and dimensions of methodological quality in research literature.
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Kenneth F. Schulz
Epidemiologist and methodologist studying publication bias and dimensions of methodological quality in research literature.
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Kenneth S. Rogoff
Economists who documented serial financial crises and the recurring belief that this time is different.
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Kenneth S. Rogoff
Economists who documented serial financial crises and the recurring belief that this time is different.
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Kent Beck
Software engineer who created Extreme Programming and helped pioneer test-driven development, iterative delivery, and collective code ownership.
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Kent Beck
Software engineer who created Extreme Programming and helped pioneer test-driven development, iterative delivery, and collective code ownership.
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Kevin Behr
Authors of The Phoenix Project—narrative introduction to Theory of Constraints and DevOps flow.
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Kevin Behr
Authors of The Phoenix Project—narrative introduction to Theory of Constraints and DevOps flow.
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Kevin Steffensen
Author and editor of After Certainty works on meaning, authority, and how interpretation moves through institutions.
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Kevin Steffensen
Author and editor of After Certainty works on meaning, authority, and how interpretation moves through institutions.
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KFF
Health-policy organization surveying employer benefits and coverage costs in the U.S.
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KFF
Health-policy organization surveying employer benefits and coverage costs in the U.S.
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Kirk A Hawkins
Political scientist of populist discourse, Chávez-era Venezuela, and measuring ideological constraints.
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Kirk A Hawkins
Political scientist of populist discourse, Chávez-era Venezuela, and measuring ideological constraints.
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Knight Foundation and Gallup
Research partnership surveying American trust in media and democratic information environments.
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Knight Foundation and Gallup
Research partnership surveying American trust in media and democratic information environments.
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Langdon Winner
Political theorist of technology—do artifacts have politics?—and autonomous technical systems.
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Langdon Winner
Political theorist of technology—do artifacts have politics?—and autonomous technical systems.
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Lant Pritchett
Development scholars of capability traps, problem-driven iteration, and institutional reform in weak states.
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Lant Pritchett
Development scholars of capability traps, problem-driven iteration, and institutional reform in weak states.
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Larry Ceplair
Historian of the Hollywood blacklist and political discipline inside mid-century film careers.
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Larry Ceplair
Historian of the Hollywood blacklist and political discipline inside mid-century film careers.
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Larry M. Bartels
Political scientist of partisan bias in political perceptions beyond a simple running tally.
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Larry M. Bartels
Political scientist of partisan bias in political perceptions beyond a simple running tally.
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Learning Policy Institute
Education research organization studying teacher shortages, turnover, and system capacity.
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Learning Policy Institute
Education research organization studying teacher shortages, turnover, and system capacity.
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Lee Ross
Social psychologists of person perception, situational attribution, and the limits of intuitive psychology.
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Lee Ross
Social psychologists of person perception, situational attribution, and the limits of intuitive psychology.
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Leon Festinger
Social psychologists who studied cognitive dissonance in a doomsday cult when prophecy failed.
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Leon Festinger
Social psychologists who studied cognitive dissonance in a doomsday cult when prophecy failed.
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Léon Krier
Architectural theorist and critic of modernist urbanism, advocating humane proportion and traditional form.
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Léon Krier
Architectural theorist and critic of modernist urbanism, advocating humane proportion and traditional form.
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Leonard J Arrington
Historian of Mormon economic and frontier settlement history; author of Great Basin Kingdom.
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Leonard J Arrington
Historian of Mormon economic and frontier settlement history; author of Great Basin Kingdom.
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Lewis Hanke
Historian of the Valladolid debate over Indigenous rights and Spanish imperial conscience.
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Lewis Hanke
Historian of the Valladolid debate over Indigenous rights and Spanish imperial conscience.
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Lewis Mumford
Historian and critic of technics, megamachine, and human scale in civilization.
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Lewis Mumford
Historian and critic of technics, megamachine, and human scale in civilization.
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Liam Fahey
Editors of ethnographic and historical studies relevant to Mormon and American religious experience.
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Liam Fahey
Editors of ethnographic and historical studies relevant to Mormon and American religious experience.
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Library of Congress
U.S. national library whose Bayard Rustin papers preserve March on Washington planning materials.
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Library of Congress
U.S. national library whose Bayard Rustin papers preserve March on Washington planning materials.
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Linda L. Carli
Psychologists of gender and leadership, labyrinth metaphors, and bias in authority evaluation.
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Linda L. Carli
Psychologists of gender and leadership, labyrinth metaphors, and bias in authority evaluation.