Developing skills to perform hybridity

Thesis: S.M. in Management Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, February 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-32).Multivocal identities have often been thought to provide social actors with more resources and opportunities over time than other "limited," singular identities. However, less is known about how organizations actually accomplish embodying multiple identities. By looking inside a hybrid organization, this paper uses ethnographic data to document how an organization successfully sustains its hybridity despite challenges associated with making multiple identity claims. The paper analyzes how the organization socializes individuals to perform its particular hybrid organizational identity. A common practice known as demonstrations served as an integrative practice-based mechanism enabling actors confronted by distinct social worlds, and norms, to enact otherwise competing roles and framings of their work so that their performances did not convey incompetence or betrayal of alternative normative expectations. The findings show that to successfully perform the organization's hybrid identity, the actors developed a transferable skill set, which enabled them to credibly deliver on their manifold roles as academic researchers, social hacktivists, and commercial product designers.by James Whitcomb Riley.S.M. in Management Researc

O Heart Of Mine

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A Life Lesson

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Living well with kidney disease by patient and care partner empowerment: kidney health for everyone everywhere

Living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with hardships for patients and their care partners. Empowering patients and their care partners, including family members or friends involved in their care, may help minimize the burden and consequences of CKD-related symptoms to enable life participation. There is a need to broaden the focus on living well with kidney disease and re-engagement in life, including an emphasis on patients being in control. The World Kidney Day (WKD) Joint Steering Committee has declared 2021 the year of ‘Living Well with Kidney Disease’ in an effort to increase education and awareness on the important goal of patient empowerment and life participation. This calls for the development and implementation of validated patient-reported outcome measures to assess and address areas of life participation in routine care. It could be supported by regulatory agencies as a metric for quality care or to support labeling claims for medicines and devices. Funding agencies could establish targeted calls for research that address the priorities of patients. Patients with kidney disease and their care partners should feel supported to live well through concerted efforts by kidney care communities including during pandemics. In the overall wellness program for kidney disease patients, the need for prevention should be reiterated. Early detection with a prolonged course of wellness despite kidney disease, after effective secondary and tertiary prevention programs, should be promoted. WKD 2021 continues to call for increased awareness of the importance of preventive measures throughout populations, professionals and policymakers, applicable to both developed and developing countries

Letter, 1908, Indiana to Edmund Eitel, Boston, Massachusetts

Letter tells of his recent health problems. He is glad to hear that his nephew is doing well in school and enclosed an article from a newspaper

Letter, 1916, Miami, Florida to Mr. Harry Kahn, Indianapolis, Indiana

Letter from Riley thanking Mr. Kahn for a gift and giving news of mutual friends there in Florida. He asks Mr. Kahn's opinion on the appointment of Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court

Cover of "The Reader Magazine", Christmas 1904

"A Carol" by James Whitcomb Riley is on the cover of the magazine

Letter, 1903, Indiana to Edmund Eitel, Ithaca, New York

Letter from Riley to his nephew at Cornell University teasing him about how short his most recent letter was and commenting on how much he is missed. Riley mentions that he is preparing to go on the lecture circuit

Social exchange and valuations in the market for contemporary art

Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, May, 2020Page 115 blank. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references.The first essay draws on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork to examine the puzzle of why galleries discipline collectors --who provide much-needed financial capital - for appearing too motivated by profit. Whilst art worlds have strong norms that enjoin artists to avoid the naked pursuit of profit and instead affect an air of "disinterestedness" (that is, a concern only for universal virtues and aesthetic qualities such as truth and beauty), why might art dealers demand that collectors similarly conform to such norms? This study addresses how (and why) galleries enforce conformity to the art-world norm of disinterestedness among collectors as part of an array of tactics they deploy to "protect" their artists from price volatility that could depress demand for the artist's work. The findings suggests a paradoxical resolution. Although galleries framed such discipline as a moral imperative, a key implication of this study is that enforcing a norm that disavows extrinsic rewards such as fortune and fame ultimately supports a profitable business and investment strategy.The second essay (coauthored with Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan) also draws on an 18-month ethnographic investigation examining the rise and proliferation of International Art Fairs (IAFs) in the global art market. This study contributes to our understanding of how the construction and extension of market platforms shapes market dynamics. On the surface, the explosive growth of IAFs in the contemporary art market reflects the greater efficiency that market platforms typically offer, both for facilitating exchange and for expanding access. But past research on market construction does not prepare us for either of the two main findings of this paper. The first is that market participants (and especially the mid-size galleries that dominate the fairs) are deeply ambivalent about the fairs' value relative to the cost of participation. The second main finding -- that galleries (and others) believe they must participate in order to be visible in the market --affords insight into how markets vary in their visibility and opacity; how such variation shapes status competition; and how markets that are designed to increase efficiency mayby James Whitcomb Riley.Ph. D.Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Managemen