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58 September/October 2014 BizEd research DIVVECTOR /TH I N KSTOCK ■ LAW CENTER Singapore Management University has opened the Centre for Cross- Border Commercial Law in Asia (CEBCLA). The center will be direct- ed by law professor Tang Hang Wu. ■ PUBLIC SERVICE New York University's Governance Lab (GovLab) and the MacArthur Foundation Research Network have formed Open Governance, a new 12-member network to study how to enhance collaboration and decision making that serves the public interest. The MacArthur Foundation provided a US$5 million three-year grant for the project; Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, also contributed. The network will focus on improving three areas of governance at local, national, and international government levels. These include better integrating exper- tise, distributing data, and distributing responsibility. Information about Open Governance and its members is avail- able at www.macfound.org/networks/ research-network-opening-governance/ details. ■ CENTER ON WORK The European Union has chosen the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom to be the center of the European Observatory of Industrial Relations and Working Conditions, a network of researchers spanning 28 European countries. Warwick Business School's Industrial Relations Research Unit and the university's Insti- tute for Employment Research were awarded a contract worth €520,000 (around US$700,000) to carry out the research for the U.K. until 2018. ■ MOVE FOR RFID In June, the RFID Research Center moved from the University of Arkan- sas in Fayetteville to Auburn Univer- sity in Alabama. The center's presence on the Auburn campus makes possible collaborations on projects involving the use of radio frequency identifica- tion among the university's Raymond J. Harbert College of Business, the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, and the College of Human Sciences. The school is in the process of con- verting a former supermarket into a 13,000-square-foot space for the cen- ter, which now will be called the RFID Lab at Auburn University. UPCOMING & ONGOING UNDER-35 PRIZE The Financial Times and McKinsey & Company invite young business authors to sub- mit proposals to the inaugural Bracken Bower Prize, named after Brendan Bracken, chairman of the FT from 1945 to 1958, and Marvin Bower, managing director of McKinsey from 1950 to 1967. Intended to inspire the best "future business books of the year," the prize will be awarded to the best proposal of 5,000 words or fewer for a book that explores upcoming trends in business, economics, finance, or management, as well as challenges and oppor- tunities for growth. The author who submits the best proposal will receive £15,000 (about US$25,500). Only writers who will be under 35 on the day the prize is awarded—November 11, 2014—are eligible. Proposals must be received by Septem- ber 30. For more information or to submit an entry, visit event.ft-live.com/ehome/index. php?eventid=97719. Connecting Scholars and Business TWO YEARS AGO, Harvard Busi- ness School added a feature to HBS Working Knowledge, the school's website that aims to disseminate its faculty's research to practitioners. Called the Research Exchange, the page allows HBS faculty to invite the participation of companies in their experimental field studies. So far, the school has promoted field studies for ten professors and doc- toral students. The idea originated from Michael Norton, associate profes- sor of business administration, and Carmen Nobel, editor of HBS Working Knowledge. "Carmen and I wanted to make this process more active, where managers not only learned about faculty research but served as partners in the research process," says Norton. The exchange has developed slowly—currently, one field experi- ment is underway with a company that learned about the research through the exchange. But Nor- ton's goal is for the site to become an "iterative process" where ini- tial collaborations lead to more research collaborations in the future. "I think it is only a matter of time. An increasing number of researchers are interested in direct collaboration with companies," says Norton. "Matchmaking ser- vices like the Research Exchange have the potential to meet this interest." The topics currently listed on the Research Exchange can be found at hbswk.hbs.edu/classified/.

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