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Professor Presents NSF Budget to Congress

Release Date: Feb 12, 2008

Linda Argote, Carnegie Bosch Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory, recently presented a portion of the National Science Foundation's budget to Congress. 

Argote represented the social, behavioral and economic sciences in the NSF budget roll-out to Congress in the February 4th presentation. She titled her presentation, "How Do Organizations Learn? Keys to Competing in a Knowledge-based World." 

"Effective knowledge management is a source of competitive advantage for firms. Organizations that are able to retain and transfer knowledge internally, while minimizing its external leakage or spillover, are more likely to survive and prosper than those that are less adept at knowledge management," Argote said. 

NSF external affairs representative Patrick Olmert said of Argote and other presenters, "As chosen by NSF's directorates and offices, your individual research activities ... are among the very best that the Foundation can showcase in science and
engineering research and education."