the community of or informs combined colloquia november, 2005 michael trick tepper school,carnegie...
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The Community of ORINFORMS Combined Colloquia
November, 2005Michael Trick
Tepper School,Carnegie Mellon
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Social Capital (from Bowling Alone)
Value we get from interactions, even if no obvious learning (human capital) gets done
Results are often hard to recognize, but a career without social capital is sterile and ineffective
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Definition Social Capital : measures of the
value of social networks. Those tangible substances that count
for most in the daily lives of people: namely good will, fellowship, sympathy, and social intercourse [Hanifan, 1916]
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Why is Social Capital Important/Useful?
“Lubricant” that makes interactions go (like money in economic transactions)
Leads to Trust Reciprocity Cooperation Institutional Effectiveness
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Examples of activities Working for Political Party Serving as officer in a club Church Attendence Membership in professional
organization Entertainment at home Bowled in a League
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Decline of Social Capital 1970-1995
Worked for political party
7% 2.8%
Served as officer in club
10% 6%
Attended Church 42% 36%
Member of Institute of Architects
41% 28%
Entertained at home 14 9
Bowled in a league 69/ 1000
31/ 1000
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Further Sign? INFORMS Membership
1994 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Total 13,100
11,752
11,058 10,499
10,532
10,208
10,536
10,437
Student 2700 2253 1985 1755 1731 1782 1998 2105
Retired 325 492 504 516 525 522 524 506
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Decline of Social Capital By almost any measure, the
activities that lead to social capital are declining after having reached a peak in 1950-1970 period
Decrease is strongest in youngest cohorts (relative to involvement of others at that age)
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Effects of this decline Society is measurably more
doubtful of others (people don’t trust each other as much)
People break “little laws more” (at a set of stop signs in NY, stopping went from 38% in 1978 to 1%)
Charitable giving has decreased Many more signs of breakdown
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Why? Many suspects No one reason Careful study does remove some
possibilities: hard to blame internet when the decline from 1970 is steady
Pressures of time, money, sprawl at work. Key issues are television usage and generational shifts
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Television and technology
There are now 2.4 TV sets per household, and the average household watches TV 7.5 hours/day
Isolated and isolating activity that correlates most strongly with other measures of social disengagement
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Trick’s TV situation: 5 TVs
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TV Usage: “TV is my primary form of entertainment”
Strongly Agree
Strongly Disagree
Volunteered 4.1 9.1
Letters written 12 18
Club meetings 5 9
Worked on community project
1.5 3
Gave finger to another driver
3 1.4
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Generational Shifts Two ways these changes could
come about: uniform across all ages or replacement of “civic generation” with a less civic generation
Data is clearly in favor of the latter. Matches with TV results
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Implications: Unique for OR
By our nature, we are Alone in our organization, or part of a
small group Dependent on outside interactions to
generate projects, ideas, creative research directions
It is arguable that OR professionals are more dependent on social capital than many other professions
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Effect on Young Professionals
Tempting to view time spent not in research as “wasted time” Wrong! In addition to the importance
of finding balance in your life, social capital can result in unexpected successes
Half of my vita is due to hallway conversations with colleagues in economics, finance, and other areas
I am better in the classroom due to what I learn from colleagues
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Types of Social Capital Two main types
Bonding: forming “in-groups” (not a pejorative). This colloquium is a great opportunity
Bridging: interacting with other groups. Bridging people tend to be very central and successful in organizations
Do both!
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Advertisement INFORMS can help
Meet those in your field and those in related fields
Outreach campaign such as “The Science of Better”
Be active and involved Attend meetings, follow up interactions Volunteer
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Message 2: Be part of the Community and Improve the Field
Not just by having a nice new theorem
Tell people about what we do! OR is exciting
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Tell people what we do The more people know about OR,
the more Students Funding Projects Success
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Tell people what we do Doesn’t have to be own work Have 3 or 4 good stories, and tell
them as often as you can Great opportunity at this colloquium
to collect stories Don’t be shy, modest, analytical
(all those things OR people normally are)
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Message 3: But not too much community: Don’t listen to others (even me!)
More exactly, listen, evaluate, and accept/reject
Many different paths in this career: tendency to suggest “just do what I did!”
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Example My first web page was in 1994,
when there were 800 web servers One of which was
http://akebono.stanford.edu
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Bottom line Don’t forget the most important
take-away from this colloquium
The People you have met!
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Pittsburgh 06