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Howdy SIMians.  Please take a gander at the SIM website: http://sim.aomonline.org/index.htm.

No, seriously, look at it: http://sim.aomonline.org/index.htm

Go on, do it . . . just click: http://sim.aomonline.org/index.htm

Fine, if I have to come over there and click it for you . . . just do it already: http://sim.aomonline.org/index.htm

Aimee Dars Ellis has been kind enough to treat the website to an extreme makeover.  Thanks, Aimee! But I call your attention not just to the site's new beauty, but to its content and functionality as well.  One of the things I charged last year's PDW session chairs with was the task of creating some public takeaways that could be posted to the SIM website.  And here they are:

http://sim.aomonline.org/SIMPDWs2012.html

Yes, it's a slightly different link – it takes you to the PDW content page.  Go on, click on it, too; be brave: http://sim.aomonline.org/SIMPDWs2012.html

Here you can see the PowerPoint slide decks from the PDW presentations, in case you didn't get to attend them all.  Please use these as handy reference resources.  Feel free to refer others to them, perhaps as background for research projects, teaching innovations, etc.

One thing near and dear to me is the overall idea of cumulating knowledge and advancing the field, rather than pendulum swinging back and forth and forgetting what we did from one year to the next, and reinventing the wheel over and over again, sometimes in lopsided ways to replace perfectly round prior wheels and, oh well, you get the idea . . . We need to figure out what we know, what we don't know, and how to figure out answers to what we don't know, but it's hard to do if you don't know what you don't know and forget what you know . . . .ok, so I've said it again . . .

So with hopes of pushing in that forward direction, I reformatted one of the PDWs to deal with issues of "Taking stock in SIM: What we know, what we don't know, and what we still need to do." Mike Valente and Helen Haugh were kind enough to humor me in pursuit of this impossible task.  They cornered Shawn Berman, Rob Phillips, Duane Windsor, and Sandra Waddock, and these leading SIMians gave their views.  Please do take a look at the slide deck on this:  http://sim.aomonline.org/stockSIM2012.pdf.  And please make use of this information in helping to frame the work that you do.  We'll advance SIM, and business and society, in a more forceful and effective way, if we work in a concerted manner, always aware of the big picture of the field of which we are a part.

If you have any materials you think would be useful for the website, please do contact Aimee.  Her info is all over the website, and so I'll force you to actually click on one of the links above to find her email. 

I look forward to seeing you all in Orlando, if not sooner.  As program chair, I'll do my best to not make it too much of a Mickey Mouse operation.  Please do respond eagerly and promptly to upcoming calls for reviewers and paper submissions.

Best,

Mike

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Michael L. Barnett

Vice Dean for Academic Programs

Rutgers Business School

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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Newark, NJ 07102

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View my research papers at:

http://ssrn.com/author=414796