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Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of 'talk show' by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross's interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR., (1.) Journalist SCOTT SHANE is with the Washington bureau of the The New York Times where he writes about national security. He'll discuss Russia's meddling in the 2016 election and the Mueller indictments. SHANE has also done his own digging into Russia's efforts to sway the election and create discord. (INTERVIEW BY DAVE DAVIES) (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW). (2.) Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews By The Way I Forgive You the new album by Brandi Carlile, produced in Nashville by country-music insiders Dave Cobb and Shooter Jennings.

Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of 'talk show' by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross's interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR., (1.) Journalist SCOTT SHANE is a national security reporter for The New York Times. He's been writing about the Obama administration's targeted drone strikes. He'll discuss the latest on the story about the targeting of Americans abroad who are considered terrorists. And he'll discuss breaking a couple of drone stories, including the story - that the Times had been sitting on - that the U.S. launched drone attacks from a secret base in Saudia Arabia. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW). (2.) Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews Give me Everything You Have, the new memoir James Lasdun.

Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of 'talk show' by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross's interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR., (1.) Journalist SCOTT SHANE is a National Security correspondent for The New York Times. He's been writing about an American-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki whose militant online lectures have inspired the recent Times Square bomber and the Army psychiatrist who killed thirteen people at Fort Hood. Al-Awlaki who had mosques in San Diego and Virginia was once considered a moderate. Now he is hiding in Yemen and has been targeted for killing by the C.I.A. He is the first American citizen on the agency's hit list. (DAVE DAVIES INTERVIEW). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW). (2.) Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood, the debut album by the band The Mynabirds.

Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of 'talk show' by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross's interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR., (1.) British attorney PHILIPPE (Phil-LEEP) SANDS. He is an international lawyer at the firm Matrix Chambers, and a professor and director of the Centre of International Courts and Tribunals at University College London. He's the author of the book 'Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values.' The book played a role in a Spanish court's decision to investigate allegations that six Bush Administration officials provided the legal framework for torture. The six senior lawyers and officials are: former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; David Addington, chief of staff and the principal legal adviser to Vice-President Dick Cheney; John Yoo, a former Justice Department lawyer; Doug Feith, former Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy; lawyers Jim Haynes and Jay Bybee. (2.) SCOTT SHANE is National Security reporter in the Washington bureau for the New York Times. He's been reporting on the recent release of long-secret Justice Department interrogation memorandums. The memos written in 2002 and 2005 justify brutal interrogations. Among the things the memos reveal is that two captured Qaeda operatives were subjected to waterboarding a total of 266 times. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES THRU THE END OF THE SHOW).

The knowledge intensive areas of our economy are characterized by rapid innovation fueled by technological and scientific advances. For firms competing in knowledgebased industries, continuous access to new information, know-how, and ideas is essential to success (Bierly and Chakrabarti, 1996). Firms create new knowledge through investments in R&D but, given the rapid pace of knowledge development around the world and the numerous scientific and technological frontiers along which innovation takes place, no firm can internally develop all the knowledge needed for success. Firms must, therefore, continuously access knowledge from other organizations including domestic and international firms, government laboratories, and universities (Arora and Gambardella, 1990; Powell et ai., 1996). One of the approaches taken by firms to monitor external knowledge development, and to absorb this knowledge when useful, is to engage in strategic alliances. Strategic alliances are used in numerous industries to gain access to ideas, knowhow, and expertise from other organizations (Inkpen, 1998). Empirical research has confirmed that alliances are an important source of scientific and technological knowledge (Mowery et at., 1996; Powell et at., 1996; Ah~ja, 2000) and contribute to firm success (Stuart, 2000).

The knowledge intensive areas of our economy are characterized by rapid innovation fueled by technological and scientific advances. For firms competing in knowledgebased industries, continuous access to new information, know-how, and ideas is essential to success (Bierly and Chakrabarti, 1996). Firms create new knowledge through investments in R&D but, given the rapid pace of knowledge development around the world and the numerous scientific and technological frontiers along which innovation takes place, no firm can internally develop all the knowledge needed for success. Firms must, therefore, continuously access knowledge from other organizations including domestic and international firms, government laboratories, and universities (Arora and Gambardella, 1990; Powell et ai., 1996). One of the approaches taken by firms to monitor external knowledge development, and to absorb this knowledge when useful, is to engage in strategic alliances. Strategic alliances are used in numerous industries to gain access to ideas, knowhow, and expertise from other organizations (Inkpen, 1998). Empirical research has confirmed that alliances are an important source of scientific and technological knowledge (Mowery et at., 1996; Powell et at., 1996; Ah~ja, 2000) and contribute to firm success (Stuart, 2000).

Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of 'talk show' by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross's interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR., (1.) Journalist SCOTT SHANE has been writing about terrorism and the C.I.A.'s interrogation techniques for The New York Times. His most recent article is about how the U.S. has adopted techniques once used by the Soviets, 'Soviet-Style 'Torture' Becomes 'Interrogation.'' (June 3, 2007) (2.) TARA MCKELVEY is the author of 'Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War.' She interviewed former prisoners from Abu Ghraib for her book. MCKELVEY is senior editor at The American Prospect and a research fellow at the NYU School of Law's Center on Law and Security.

To take advantage of the globalization of markets, multinational corporations have increased the amount of innovation undertaken in their overseas subsidiaries. This has meant that managers in many different cultural environments now are innovating. This dissertation examines how the cultural values of 2769 managers in six organizations in 32 countries influence their preferences for different strategies of innovation champions. The theoretical framework of this dissertation is fairly straightforward. All organizations, regardless of the society in which they are found, possess two universal characteristics--specialization of labor and a system of authority--which create resistance to innovation. Innovation champions are individuals who act to overcome these organizational obstacles. However, while the organizational barriers to innovation are universal, the licenses accorded to champions to go about overcoming these obstacles are culture-specific. This study examines the relationship between the specific behaviors of innovation champions tolerated by members of a firm and three cultural values: individualism/collectivism, power distance, and uncertainty avoidance/uncertainty acceptance. The basic argument is that country level differences in these three cultural values influence country level differences in the strategies used by managers to overcome obstacles to innovation. The study finds a number of significant relationships between cultural values and championing strategies. The most robust of these is that between individualism and rule breaking championing behavior. The more individualistic the society, the more managers prefer champions who violate organizational rules, norms and standard operating procedures to implement innovation. This finding is robust across numerous methodologies for analyzing the results of the study.

In this November 26, 1980 Greensboro Daily News article, Scott Shane reports on the existence of "two worlds" in Greensboro, one black and one white. Shane writes that many black citizens feel Greensboro continues to be run by a few large corporations, none of whom employee blacks in management positions. He says that many blacks feel there is an "insensitivity to black concerns on the part of the white business community," and references the fact that only one of the African American members of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce was elected by membership. While black leadership has become more diverse, most interviewees cited George Simkins, Prince Graves, and Henry Frye as the most influential leaders. Shane details all three men's activism in Greensboro. The formation of the Greensboro Citizens Forum and renewed church activity is discussed at length. However, the three leaders' close ties to the white power structure brings criticism from the black community. Charles Byrd, a business owner, said "anybody (among the black leaders) the power structure doesn't destroy is not worth voting for." Shane writes that only a small portion of the city budget goes to black owned businesses, and that many of the city positions blacks hold carry little clout. He also writes that many feel when blacks gain economic power, they will be able to obtain political power. Other individuals mention in the article are: Alexander and Will Parker, business owners; Lewis Brandon, business owner; Isaac Miller, Bennett College president; Herman Fox, engineer and A&T professor; Jim Melvin, mayor; Vic Nussbaum, city councilman; Lewis Dowdy, A&T chancellor; Kenneth Lee, attorney; Katie Dorsett, activist; Alfreda Webb, A&T staff; L. Richardson Preyer, congressman; W.J. Trent, Bennett College assistant to the president; Rev. Otis Hairston; Rev. Cleo McCoy; Jimmie Barber, city councilman; Walter Johnson, attorney. Organizations mentioned in the article include: Greensboro Citizens

In this November 26, 1980 Greensboro Daily News article, Scott Shane reports on the existence of "two worlds" in Greensboro, one black and one white. Shane writes that many black citizens feel Greensboro continues to be run by a few large corporations, none of whom employee blacks in management positions. He says that many blacks feel there is an "insensitivity to black concerns on the part of the white business community," and references the fact that only one of the African American members of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce was elected by membership. While black leadership has become more diverse, most interviewees cited George Simkins, Prince Graves, and Henry Frye as the most influential leaders. Shane details all three men's activism in Greensboro. The formation of the Greensboro Citizens Forum and renewed church activity is discussed at length. However, the three leaders' close ties to the white power structure brings criticism from the black community. Charles Byrd, a business owner, said "anybody (among the black leaders) the power structure doesn't destroy is not worth voting for." Shane writes that only a small portion of the city budget goes to black owned businesses, and that many of the city positions blacks hold carry little clout. He also writes that many feel when blacks gain economic power, they will be able to obtain political power. Other individuals mention in the article are: Alexander and Will Parker, business owners; Lewis Brandon, business owner; Isaac Miller, Bennett College president; Herman Fox, engineer and A&T professor; Jim Melvin, mayor; Vic Nussbaum, city councilman; Lewis Dowdy, A&T chancellor; Kenneth Lee, attorney; Katie Dorsett, activist; Alfreda Webb, A&T staff; L. Richardson Preyer, congressman; W.J. Trent, Bennett College assistant to the president; Rev. Otis Hairston; Rev. Cleo McCoy; Jimmie Barber, city councilman; Walter Johnson, attorney. Organizations mentioned in the article include: Greensboro Citizens Association, P

The rise of business accelerators, angel groups, and startup competitions has meant that founders increasingly pitch their businesses to investors in group settings, raising the question of whether the order in which ideas are pitched affects outcomes. We test in a field experiment whether range-frequency theory or the theory of bounded rationality better predicts the effect of serial position on pitch outcomes. We find that range frequency theory better predicts the empirical patterns than the theory of bounded rationality.JEL Codes: M13, G30, G40