Robert Aaron Gordon

Person · Open Library

Works

13

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density

   · 1988 · cited 95,805x

2. Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation

   · 2011 · cited 56,572x

3. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 46,854x

4. Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso

   · 1996 · cited 39,814x

5. <tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

   · 2009 · cited 39,715x

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Quotes

• “The majority of students studying for the master's degree in business are enrolled in makeshift programs which are generally unsatisfactory... Business administration gets a much larger portion of poor students and a smaller percentage of the best students than do the traditional professional fields.”
• “A study of business education in the United States was recently conducted by Professors Robert A. Gordon of the University of California (Berkeley) and John E. Howell of Stanford University. Their book, Higher Education for Business, has been published by Columbia University Press. Among their major recommendations are:”
• “Production management courses are often the repository for some of the most inappropriate and intellectually stultifying materials to be found in the business curriculum... many faculty members have little respect for such courses... and students complained more strongly to us about the pointlessness of the production requirement than of any other.”
• “Except for specialists such as market analysts and the like, economists as a professional group have had surprisingly little influence on businessman.”
• “The more active working directors become, the more closely involved they resemble the executives now responsible for providing business leadership. A full-time working director is merely another official who is also a director. Wide adoption of the proposal for professional directors, particularly if management is able to select the directors itself, may merely make general the situation now found in some companies in which only the executive group is represented on the board.”
• “Merely professionalizing the board of directors is not enough to achieve competent business leadership and at the same time the necessary independent check on executives.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Robert

Family name

Gordon

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Washington, D.C.

Place of death

Berkeley

Child

Robert J. Gordon

Occupation

veterinarian

Position held

president

Educated at

Johns Hopkins University

Employer

University of California, Berkeley

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Guggenheim Fellowship

Field of work

veterinary medicine

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