Category: In the News

Stacy Smith in Newsweek

Faculty Fellow Stacy Smith was featured in a Newsweek article about female presence in children's film. Smith, along with her colleague, Marc Choueiti studied 122 family films and found that only 29.7% of the characters were female. Smith's study was commissioned by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which has been compiling data on women in film…….Continue Reading Stacy Smith in Newsweek

Baer blogs for TV Squad

Senior Fellow and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Executive Producer, Neal Baer guest-blogged for the website TV Squad about the new twists and guests on slate for L&O: SVU's twelfth's season. Also posted are some of favorite clips from the show's run…….Continue Reading Baer blogs for TV Squad

Bennis on Customer Think website

"The Lone Ranger is dead," says Distinguished Fellow Warren Bennis. "Instead of the individual problem-solver, we have a new model for creative achievement. People like Steve Jobs or Walt Disney headed groups and found their own greatness in them." That is only one of the few pearls of wisdom quoted from the leadership guru on Customer Think. The article states that companies need to follow Bennis' model in order to understand the 2010 definition of what it means to be a leader…….Continue Reading Bennis on Customer Think website

Bennis cited on allAfrica.com

Distinguished Fellow Warren Bennis was cited in an article on the website allAfrica.com regarding the rebuilding of Nigeria's financial infostructure. The system has lost credibility with the majority of its citizens and the author, Olu Akanmu, quotes Bennis' leaderships practices saying "no organization can be honest with the public if it is not honest with itself."……Continue Reading Bennis cited on allAfrica.com

Reeves mentioned in HuffPo article on City Club of San Diego

The Huffington Post posted an article on their site about the history of The City Club of San Diego. Over the years, the organization has hosted many different politically-centered programs such as "Immigration: The National Question"; "The State of Our Language: The War over Grammar", and "The Press, Libel & American Freedom." The article also contains a total number that the most prominent speakers have attended the annual event. Topping the list is Senior Fellow Richard Reeves, who has spoken 24 times. The article can be read in full here…….Continue Reading Reeves mentioned in HuffPo article on City Club of San Diego

Reeves new article in Metro West Daily

Senior Fellow Richard Reeves published a new op-ed piece about the midterm election results entitled "President Mau Mau in the White House". In his article, Reeves discusses how the GOP dominated the House elections and what this could mean for the Democrats once the elections are over. The article can be read in full at MetroWest Daily…….Continue Reading Reeves new article in Metro West Daily

Bennis on CTV News website

CTV News wrote a profile on Distinguished Fellow Warren Bennis, noting him amongst the most influential leadership scholars in the world alongside James Kouzes and Barry Posner. The article also notes lessons learned from Bennis' newest book, Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership…….Continue Reading Bennis on CTV News website