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Stewardship theory is a theory that managers, left on their own, will act as responsible stewards of the assets and resources they control. [ citation needed ] Stewardship theorists assume that given a choice between self-serving behavior and pro-organizational behavior, a steward will place higher value on cooperation than defection.
Gordon Howard Bower (December 30, 1932 – June 17, 2020) was a cognitive psychologist studying human memory, language comprehension, emotion, and behavior modification. He received his Ph.D. in learning theory from Yale University in 1959.
James Nairne proposed one of the first unitary theories, which criticized Alan Baddeley's working memory model, [2] which is the dominant theory of the functions of short-term memory. Other theories since Nairne have been proposed; they highlight alternative mechanisms that the working memory model initially overlooked.
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In 1933, Bower was hired by James O. McKinsey in the new Chicago firm of James O. McKinsey & Company to manage a newly acquired branch in New York. Following McKinsey's death in 1937, the two offices split up and Bower resurrected the New York firm, with the assistance of New York partners, as McKinsey & Company in 1939. He served as managing ...
Bower is CEO and chairman of the Board of Numedeon Inc. a company he founded in 1998 to develop educationally related virtual worlds. The company's flagship effort, Whyville .net is now one of the largest education sites for young adults on the World Wide Web, with a player base of more than 7 million in 2006. [ 16 ]
James Orvis Berger (born April 6, 1950, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) [1] is an American statistician best known for his work on Bayesian statistics and decision theory. He won the COPSS Presidents' Award, one of the two highest awards in statistics, in 1985 at the age of 35. He received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell University in 1974.
The grave of Major General Hamilton Bower, Dean Cemetery. He was born on 16 February 1806 [1] at Inverarity in Forfarshire. He was the son of Graham Bower (d.1844) of Meathie, Kinnettles and Kincaldrum. They were descended from Margaret St Clair of Roslin. His father was forced to sell most of the family estates in 1817 to settle family debts.