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Mass Media Coverage

This page contains links to many articles published since the late 1970's in various newspapers, magazines, and other media that have cited Professor Armstrong's research and findings. Use the quick links to go to the research topic of interest.

• Recent Papers and Citations in Knowledge@Wharton
• General
• Forecasting Techniques
• Role Playing
• Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
• Evaluation of Research
• Teaching and Grading
• Marketing

Papers and Citations in Knowledge@Wharton

• How Credible are Polls Is There a Better Way to Predict Outcomes in Politics and Business  (Oct. 2004)
• Corporate Boards Should Represent a Broader Community of Interests (Sept. 2002)
• Forecasting in Conflicts: How to Predict What Your Opponent Will Do (Feb. 2002)
• Ice Hockey, Homicide, and the Principles of Forecasting (Aug. 2001)
• Role Playing as a Forecasting Tool Sept. 1999)
• Role Playing: A Method to Forecast Decisions (Research Paper 1999)
• Integration of Statistical Methods and Judgment for Time Series Forecasting: Principles from Empirical Research (Research Paper 1998)
• Competitor Orientation: Effects of Objectives and Information on Managerial Decisions and Profitability (Research Paper 1997)
• Social Irresponsibility in Management (Research Paper 1997)
• Peer Review for Journals: Evidence on Quality Control, Fairness, and Innovation (Research Paper 1997)
• Asymmetric Errors in Extrapolation: An Empirical Analysis of Causes (Research Paper 1995)
• Principles Involving Marketing Policy: An Empirical Assessment (Research Paper 1993)
• Causal Forces: Structuring Knowledge for Time-series Extrapolation (Research Paper 1993)
• Does the Need for Agreement among Reviewers Inhibit the Publication of Controversial Findings? (Research Paper 1991)
• Barriers to Scientific Contributions: The Author's Formula (Research Paper 1982)
• Strategies for Implementing Change: An Experiential Approach (Research Paper 1982)

General

• http://manyworlds.com has summarized or reviewed several of my articles and books - search under Author for Armstrong.
• "Setting Your Sites on Global Data," Business Finance, June 2001.
• "Myth of the Market Share," Wharton Alumni Magazine, Spring 1992.
• "And Here's a Look at a Wharton School Maverick," Pennsylvania Gazette, November 1979

Forecasting

• Article in Financial Times of Germany re Pollyvote page on politicalforecasting.com.
• "Why We Argue About the War on Terrorism: Bad Forecasts and How to Avoid Them," BBC, March 2003
• "Psyched Up," Peter A. Buxbaum, Operations and Fulfillment, March 2003.
• "The Forecaster's Toolkit," Erik Sherman, Catalyst, Spring 2002
• "Forecasting: Of Suckers and Seers," The Press, July 3, 1985.
• "As Symposium, Confessions of Economic Forecasters," Philadelphia Inquirer, June 8, 1983.
• "Economic Forecasters Convene at the Wharton School," Philadelphia Inquirer, June 6, 1983.
• "Symposium on Forecasting," Huntsville Times, May 1983.
• "The Art of Forecasting Falls on Hard Times," Newport News, May 1, 1983.
• "The 'Seersucker Theory' of Economic Forecasting," Rhode Island Herald, February 25, 1982.
• "How Expert Are the Experts?" Inc., December 1981.
• "Forecaster Charges It's Much Overrated," Philadelphia Inquirer, July 10, 1978.

Role Playing

• "Not Just Play Acting" from http:www.crn.com, July 22, 2003
• "Role Playing Can Help You See the Future Through Someone Else's Eyes," Entrepreneur, September 2002
• "Rehearsing for Success," Business2.0.com, July 2002
• "Game or Serious Business?" Financial Times, March 2002
• "This Football Fan Hopes that NFL Players Do Strike," The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 1982

Social Responsibility and Business Ethics

• Video of interview with CN8 Money Matters Today: WMV file (31,421 KB)
• Howard Brody (Nov. 7, 04)"The Vioxx of Yesteryear: A Recurring Pattern in Pharmaceuticals," in City Pulse, lansingcitypulse.com - Full Text.
• Philip J. Hilts (2003), "Epilogue: Greed and Goodness," Protecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Full Text - Refers to J. Scott Armstrong (1977), "Social Irresponsibility in Management," Journal of Business Research, 5 (September), 185-213. Full Text (PDF)
• "Telling Lies," Wall Street Journal, February 1, 1979.
• "Can We Teach Social Responsibility?" New Castle News, April 18, 1978
• "Armstrong Sells Ethics to MBA's," The Wharton Journal, October 19, 1978.
• "Social Irresponsibility in Management," Management Accounting, 56 (8), 1978 ö cites full text article from Journal of Business Research
• "The Corporate Mindset," Human Behavior, December 1978.
• "One Moment Please," The Business of Ethics, 1978.
• "A Case of Ethics," Philadelphia Inquirer, May 8, 1978.
• "Ethics Courses in Business School," Philadelphia Inquirer, January 10, 1977.
• "Ethics Sometimes 'Forgotten' in Corporate World," Call-Chronicle, February 6, 1977.

Evaluation of Research

• Flaws are found in validating medical studies: Many see need to overhaul standards for peer review," The Boston Globe, August 15, 2005
• "Please, No Breakthroughs," Omni, November 1982.
• "Wanted: Dull, Obscure Research," The San Francisco Chronicle, November 28, 1982.
• "Bafflegab," American Journal of Nursing, September 1982.
• "The Body," Omni, September 1982.
• "Scholars Propose Methods of Improving the Peer Review of Articles," The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 23, 1982, 19-29.
• "Diary of Impermeable Prose," The London Times, June 9, 1980.
• "Journal Peer Review Faces Charge of Bias," Monitor, American Psychological Association, May 1982.
• "So You Want to be An Author of Scholarly Research Papers?" Wharton Research Update, Spring 1982.
• "Journals Prefer Predictable Results," Sunday News Journal, Wilmington, March 28, 1982
• "Scientific Journals Cater to Authors, Not Readers," The Arizona Republic, March 28, 1982.
• "Professor Knocks Quality of Research Papers," The Daily Pennsylvanian, March 26, 1982
• "Armstrong Posits Offbeat Formula for Hopeful Authors," The Wharton Journal, March 25, 1982.
• "Plain Prose: It's Seldom Seen in Journals," Philadelphia Inquirer, March 23, 1982.
• "Is 'Unintelligible' Best?" Supervisory Management England, 32 (4), Winter 1980.
• "Incomprehensible You Say? Brilliant!" The Philadelphia Bulletin, March 31, 1980.
• "Concerning Bafflegab," Johns Hopkins Magazine, 21 (3), June 1980.
• "Bafflegab Pays," Psychology Today, May 1980, 12.
• "The Language: Multi-Syllabic Illiteracy," Philadelphia Inquirer, March 25, 1980.
• Five UPI Releases, March 6-10, 1980

Teaching and Grading

• "Improving Learning at Universities: Who is Responsible? University of Pennsylvania Almanac, Vol. 51, No. 15, December 14, 2004 - PDF version
• Letter to Wall Street Journal, Oct. 11, 2004: Are MBA's Really Learning How to Do Things?
• "The Case for Minimum Teaching Standards," Wharton Almanac, January 1990
• "Dear Diary: 114 Hours is an A in Time Contract Class," The Daily Pennsylvanian, October 31, 1983.
• Associated Press item on "Time Contracts" published in Interfaces, August 1983
• "A New Approach to Grading (and to Learning)," Administrator, July 1983.

Marketing

The New Yorker, The Financial Page, In Praise of Third Place by James Surowiecki, December 12, 2006