A Conversation with Robert C. Elston

A Conversation with Robert Desimone.

Dr. Desimone: We always start with human behavior. Something in human behavior that we want to try to explain is related to attention these days. Often the human behavioral work has been done—we’ve done a little bit ourselves, but there’s a huge field of human behavioral work and attention. Then we look at how human neuroscience studies have informed us. Sometimes there are open questions in wh...

Robert Gary Mennel, MD: a conversation with the editor.

Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2006;19:374–385 B ob Mennel (Figure 1) was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on July 27, 1944, and grew up there. After attending parochial schools he went to St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia, graduating in 1966, and then to the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, graduating in 1970. His internship and residency in internal medicine were at the University of Roch...

Robert Arthur Kyle, MD: a conversation with the editor.

Storytelling that moves people. A conversation with screenwriting coach Robert McKee.

When executives need to persuade an audience, most try to build a case with facts, statistics, and some quotes from authorities. In other words, they resort to "companyspeak," the tools of rhetoric they have been trained to use. In this conversation with HBR, Robert McKee, the world's best-known screenwriting lecturer, argues that executives can engage people in a much deeper--and ultimately mo...

A conversation with Vaidya C. P. Shukla in Jamnagar

A quote from Charaka Samhita depicts the entire world as a teacher, suggesting Vaidyas should study other systems of medical knowledge in addition to Ayurveda. Chandrakant Prabhushanakar Shukla, former Dean of the Institute of Post Graduate Training and Research in Ayurveda, Gujarat Ayurveda University, Jamnagar, has practiced this vision himself for over five decades. He is known as ‘Charaka V...