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Super-Fluid Companies Keep Pace with Customer Needs
Idea posted: May 2021
Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School Zhejiang University School of Management
Many companies struggle to keep up with today’s supercharged, constantly evolving competitive markets, where customers needs, products and technologies change at ever-increasing speed. An in-depth study of the global telecom…
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The Cost Advantage of Reshoring
Idea posted: June 2018
Institutions: University of Bath The University of Manchester Alliance Manchester Business School
Despite the well-known and well-documented financial benefits of outsourcing and offshoring business activities, a growing number of U.S. companies are changing direction: they are moving their business activities, including manufacturing…
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Re-Entering a Foreign Market: Part 2 – Speed
Idea posted: June 2018
Institutions: Henley Business School Warwick University Business School Leeds University Business School
Many multi-national enterprises (MNEs) will re-enter a foreign market that they had previously decided to leave. A new study, based on an analysis of more than 1,000 foreign market re-entry…
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Re-Entering a Foreign Market: Part 1 – Operation Mode
Idea posted: June 2018
Institutions: Henley Business School Warwick University Business School Leeds University Business School
In 2009, French retailer Carrefour exited the Algerian market after finding its joint venture with a local partner to be unprofitable. Six years later, Carrefour re-entered the market with a…
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Business Templates that Succeed in ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’ Environments
Idea posted: June 2017
Institutions: Aalto University School of Business ESADE
More than a billion people live in poverty around the world, earning less than $2 a day. A billion people may be a huge market in terms of numbers but…
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Enterprise Risk Management: Lessons from Canada’s Banks and Burning Platforms
Idea posted: January 2016
Institutions: York University Schulich School of Business
Canadian banks are now strong, stable and profitable. They have become sterling examples of successful Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). Yet, it wasn’t very long ago that Canadian banks were in…
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The Role of Identity When an Organization’s Purpose Changes
Idea posted: May 2015
Institutions: Neoma Business School University of Alberta - Alberta School of Business
Many organizations must deal with multiple ‘logics’ that come with different and often conflicting or competing rules of the game. For example, organizations in the medical field must balance the…
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The Language Challenge for Social Media in Multinationals
Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: Boston College Carroll School of Management EDHEC Business School ESDES School of Business and Management
There is no doubt that social media has improved both internal and external corporate communication, especially for multinational companies. Social media has, for example, enabled corporations to increase opportunities for…
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Learning from Expatriate Experience After the Return Home
Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: IESE Business School
Expatriate assignments are great opportunities for employees and managers assigned overseas to not only increase their personal knowledge, but also share knowledge across units. In a study on the knowledge…
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