Jones College

Advanced air mobility (AAM) holds a significant promise for transforming regional transport by enabling the greener and more efficient movement of both passengers and cargo. Its successful implementation faces distinct challenges, however, particularly concerning the required ground infrastructure to support these innovative technologies. A pressing question thus arises: where should AAM services be successfully launched? In the US, numerous general aviation airports operate far below their capacity, while major hubs experience escalating congestion and infrastructure limitations. This issue is particularly pronounced in the Northeast, where air traffic is concentrated in a few major airports, leaving many regional facilities and multimodal hubs underutilised. In Western Europe, there is a strategic focus on enhancing air-to-rail connections to develop integrated, sustainable transport networks. Although this approach has not yet gained significant traction in the US, it could be crucial for harnessing the full potential of AAM and improving the synergy between various modes of transport. This paper discusses the preliminary findings of an ongoing research project in Central Massachusetts. The objective is to conceptually illustrate that integrating AAM within an air–rail–air network provides a scalable and environmentally sustainable approach to enhance accessibility, mitigate congestion and improve connectivity for communities that have been historically underserved by conventional air and ground transport systems. This article is also included in The Business & Management Collection which can be accessed at https://hstalks.com/business/.

This study examined the professional and personal development of private and public senior high school teachers in Jones, Isabela, Philippines. Using a descriptive survey design, 60 teachers completed questionnaires assessing their demographic profiles, 21st-century competencies, and personal and professional capabilities. The results showed high proficiency across most areas, with no significant differences between private and public school teachers. Educational attainment positively impacted professional capabilities. Teachers demonstrated strong skills in classroom management, communication, and creating a respectful learning environment. However, areas for improvement include supporting learners and adapting to technological changes. These findings highlight the importance of ongoing professional development to enhance teaching practices and student outcomes. Key implications include the need for collaborative learning experiences, technology integration, and curriculum design that incorporates real-world applications. The recommendations emphasize personalized professional development programs, reassessing assessment methods, and creating inclusive learning environments. This study contributes to understanding teacher development in the Philippine context, particularly by comparing the private and public sectors. This underscores the critical role of teacher motivation and enthusiasm in fostering student engagement. Future research should explore the long-term impacts of professional development initiatives and examine rural-urban disparities in teacher capabilities. Overall, the study advocates for a holistic transformation of educational practices to better equip teachers to meet 21st-century challenges and improve students’ learning experiences.

Wearable devices have become commonplace in society, with 1 in 3 U.S. adults owning a device and almost half wearing a device daily as a method of health tracking or monitoring. Over 80% daily device wearers are amenable to sharing data from the device with healthcare providers. Since Micah Endsley’s sentinel work and development of the Situational Awareness Global Assessment Tool (SAGAT), this tool has been applied in a variety of healthcare settings to explore user acceptance of technology and decision-making patterns related to interaction with technology. The discussed study evaluated the clinical nurse’s ability to identify a wearable device on a patient photo via online survey using SAGAT format questions. This paper reviews the successes and challenges of using SAGAT as a method to evaluate device identification by clinical nurses. Findings reveal both the potential of SAGAT for evaluating situational awareness in healthcare settings and the challenges associated with wearable device recognition. This work highlights opportunities for iterative design improvements and training interventions that support nurse engagement and patient safety in environments where wearable technologies are increasingly common.

Abstract This study investigates how HR Personnel Reputation (HRPR) and Perceived Organizational Trust (POT) influence the likelihood of sexual harassment reporting from both victims and bystanders. It addresses a gap in research regarding HR’s role in sexual harassment reporting by exploring the direct relationship between HR reputation and reporting likelihood and the mediating role of POT. Utilizing partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), the study examines the relationships between HRPR, POT, and the likelihood of reporting sexual harassment. It draws upon Source Credibility Theory (SCT) to hypothesize increased reporting likelihood with positive perceptions of HRPR. Data were collected through a Prolific survey panel, with a final sample size of 412 participants. The findings support the hypothesized positive relationship between HRPR and the direct likelihood of reporting sexual harassment by victims and bystanders through the mediating effect of POT. This suggests that HR reputation, directly and indirectly, impacts reporting behavior by influencing organizational trust. HR reputation is crucial in reporting sexual harassment, both directly and indirectly, through perceived organizational trust. Enhancing HR’s reputation and building organizational trust is vital in encouraging the reporting of sexual harassment, thereby addressing a widespread issue more effectively within organizations. The study underscores the importance of credible HR practices and the development of a trusting environment to encourage reporting of sexual harassment, offering practical implications for HR departments aiming to improve their effectiveness in handling such sensitive issues.

We investigate the impact that social movements have on firm innovation through private politics. We argue that firms strategically respond to private politics by investing in new technologies that address movement-advocated issues material to firms’ performance. Although both contentious private politics—when activists contentiously target firms—and cooperative private politics—when activists and firms collaborate—catalyze innovation, they do so in different ways. Contentious private politics increases the amount of innovation that firms undertake by drawing managerial attention to movement-advocated issues material to the firm, prompting search for solutions to those issues. Conversely, cooperative private politics provides firms access to new knowledge that encourages firms to search for solutions in areas more distant from their existing knowledge and in so doing, increase innovation involving distant recombination on material issues. We find support for our arguments in a matched sample of firms contentiously targeted and with activist collaborations on climate change issues and firms that were not targets of private politics on those issues but had otherwise similar histories of climate-related innovation and relationships with climate movements and other environmental movements. Supplementary analyses corroborate the mechanisms that undergird our theoretical predictions; contentious private politics is associated with more innovation closer to a firm’s expertise, whereas cooperative private politics is associated with innovations that draw on more distant knowledge. We also find that when collaboration follows contention, their respective impacts on innovation are reduced, which may result from firms seeking collaborations for their legitimacy-granting benefits after contention rather than the learning opportunities they offer. Funding: Funding for this research was provided by the Strategic Management Society Strategy Research Foundation [dissertation grant] and Wharton’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management. Supplemental Material: The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2023.17497 .