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Philosophers, social scientists, and institutions — grouped as people and organizations rather than individual bibliographic works.
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Barry M Staw
Organizational scholar of escalation of commitment—why groups double down on failing courses of action.
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Barry M Staw
Organizational scholar of escalation of commitment—why groups double down on failing courses of action.
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Barry W Boehm
Software economist of cost-of-change curves and risk-driven process tradeoffs in engineering.
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Barry W Boehm
Software economist of cost-of-change curves and risk-driven process tradeoffs in engineering.
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Basketball-Reference
Statistical encyclopedia for basketball careers and team records used as a public ledger of what the box score preserves.
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Basketball-Reference
Statistical encyclopedia for basketball careers and team records used as a public ledger of what the box score preserves.
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Ben Hutchinson
Researcher on responsible machine learning and model documentation practices including model cards.
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Ben Hutchinson
Researcher on responsible machine learning and model documentation practices including model cards.
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Ben Kiernan
Historian of genocide and mass violence, documenting how regimes mobilize ideology and bureaucracy.
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Ben Kiernan
Historian of genocide and mass violence, documenting how regimes mobilize ideology and bureaucracy.
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Ben S Bernanke
Economist and former Federal Reserve chair; scholar of the Great Depression and financial crisis response.
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Ben S Bernanke
Economist and former Federal Reserve chair; scholar of the Great Depression and financial crisis response.
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Ben Sisario
Music-business journalist covering tours, revenue, and how celebrity logistics become public leadership theater.
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Ben Sisario
Music-business journalist covering tours, revenue, and how celebrity logistics become public leadership theater.
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Benedict Anderson
Political scientist of imagined communities—how nations cohere through shared narrative and print culture.
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Benedict Anderson
Political scientist of imagined communities—how nations cohere through shared narrative and print culture.
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Benoît Monin
Psychologist of moral judgment, hypocrisy, and self-licensing in social behavior.
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Benoît Monin
Psychologist of moral judgment, hypocrisy, and self-licensing in social behavior.
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Bertram Raven
Social psychologists who mapped bases of social power—reward, coercion, legitimacy, expertise, and referent power.
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Bertram Raven
Social psychologists who mapped bases of social power—reward, coercion, legitimacy, expertise, and referent power.
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Betsy Beyer
Google SRE editor documenting production reliability practices—on-call craft, error budgets, and incident learning.
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Betsy Beyer
Google SRE editor documenting production reliability practices—on-call craft, error budgets, and incident learning.
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Biblical sources
New Testament texts (gospels, Acts, Pauline letters) treated as narrative sources for hospitality, authority, and community formation.
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Biblical sources
New Testament texts (gospels, Acts, Pauline letters) treated as narrative sources for hospitality, authority, and community formation.
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
U.S. central bank publishing monetary policy, financial stability research, and systemic risk assessments.
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
U.S. central bank publishing monetary policy, financial stability research, and systemic risk assessments.
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Bob Woodward
Investigative journalist chronicling presidential decision-making, secrecy, and bureaucratic power.
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Bob Woodward
Investigative journalist chronicling presidential decision-making, secrecy, and bureaucratic power.
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Brené Brown
Researcher and writer on vulnerability, shame resilience, and courage in leadership and belonging.
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Brené Brown
Researcher and writer on vulnerability, shame resilience, and courage in leadership and belonging.
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Brian Christian
Writer on algorithms, human-computer interaction, and the alignment problem in machine decision systems.
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Brian Christian
Writer on algorithms, human-computer interaction, and the alignment problem in machine decision systems.
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Brian Marick
Software tester and early Agile advocate, known for writing on testing craft, the limits of automation, and honest assessment in XP teams.
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Brian Marick
Software tester and early Agile advocate, known for writing on testing craft, the limits of automation, and honest assessment in XP teams.
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Briana Vecchione
AI ethics researchers documenting dataset documentation practices and harms of opaque training data governance.
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Briana Vecchione
AI ethics researchers documenting dataset documentation practices and harms of opaque training data governance.
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Bruce Patton
Negotiation theorists of principled bargaining, interests versus positions, and Getting to Yes.
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Bruce Patton
Negotiation theorists of principled bargaining, interests versus positions, and Getting to Yes.
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Bruno Latour
Sociologist of science, actor-networks, and how facts are assembled through alliances and instruments.
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Bruno Latour
Sociologist of science, actor-networks, and how facts are assembled through alliances and instruments.
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C. Thi Nguyen
Philosopher of games, value capture, and how designed environments reshape what people want and notice.
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C. Thi Nguyen
Philosopher of games, value capture, and how designed environments reshape what people want and notice.
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C. W Anderson
Media scholar of news production, epistemic authority, and how journalism constructs public reality.
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C. W Anderson
Media scholar of news production, epistemic authority, and how journalism constructs public reality.
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Carl A. Kallgren
Social psychologists studying focus theory of normative conduct and situational influence on behavior.
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Carl A. Kallgren
Social psychologists studying focus theory of normative conduct and situational influence on behavior.
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Carl I. Hovland
Psychologist of persuasion and source credibility—how messenger trust shapes what audiences accept.
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Carl I. Hovland
Psychologist of persuasion and source credibility—how messenger trust shapes what audiences accept.