Idea posted: September 2025

Institutions: University of Queensland    Lund University    University of St. Andrews   

There is perhaps no single nonfiction topic of research and discussion that has received more attention from thought leaders, consultants, business practitioners, academics, and indeed society at large, than the…

Idea posted: January 2015

Institutions: Vlerick Business School   

As the younger generation of employees move into their first leadership positions, they will naturally be anxious, as any new leader would be, about the responsibilities, pressures, and risks that…

Idea posted: July 2018

Institutions: University of Texas McCombs School of Business    University of Texas at Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management    Villanova University School of Business   

A number of different incentives can potentially push leaders to make decisions that favour short-term returns over long-term value. To test whether such incentives actually have an impact on decision-making,…

Idea posted: July 2024

Institutions: The University of Edinburgh Business School; Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture    Edinburgh College of Art    Queen Mary University of London   

The widespread experiment in remote work forced on society by the pandemic proved that employees are not less productive working from home and that companies can achieve the same results…

Idea posted: August 2025

Institutions: IÉSEG School of Management    KU Leuven    University of Zurich   

The traditional approach to workforce differentiation is talent management, which involves disproportionately investing in a small, exclusive group of high-value employees, often referred to as “talents”. However, there’s been increasing…

Idea posted: November 2024

Institutions: University of Chicago Booth School of Business; University of Essex, Department of Economics   

Having discovered the benefits of working from home (WFH) during the COVID-19 pandemic, notably the improvement in work-life balance, many employees are reluctant to return to the office full-time. One…

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management   

Susan Perkins, a professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and a visiting professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, sought to empirically measure the role of prior international…

Idea posted: March 2015

Institutions: North Carolina State University Poole College of Management    University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire   

The best companies are forward-looking. They are not only concerned with what customers want to buy today, but what they will want to buy in the future. A company’s ability…

Idea posted: March 2022

Institutions: Stanford University    Georgetown University McDonough School of Business   

Work-from-home (WFH) flexibility was once available only to a select group of employees and professions. The sudden emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic forced companies in many industries to make WFH…