Idea posted: April 2020
Institutions: Wilson Perumal & Company
Furniture retailer IKEA successfully expanded from its home base in rural Sweden to 52 countries across the globe. In contrast, Wal-Mart, the capital-rich retail leader in the largest economy in…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #767Idea posted: March 2018
Institutions: Henley Business School
Traditionally, according to Tony Dyson of Tessera Consulting and Kevin Money of Henley Business School, companies and organizations engage in what they call ‘silo communication.” Different parts of the organization…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #691Idea 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…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #659Idea posted: August 2016
Institutions: Carlos III University of Madrid ESADE
Many companies recognize the reputational risk of the environmental reputation of their suppliers. As a result, companies launch green supply chain management (GSCM) initiatives, working with suppliers to ensure that…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #617Idea posted: May 2016
Institutions: Harvard Business School
Sceptics of enterprise risk management believe that the 2008 financial crisis proves their point: risk management practices do little to prevent risks. Instead, according to these sceptics, focusing on potential…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #604Idea posted: April 2016
Institutions: University of Michigan Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise
What is the role of social movements in inspiring or sparking corporate social responsibility? To answer this question, Panayiotis Georgallis of the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Global Sustainable…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #603Idea posted: February 2016
Institutions: Ecole de Commerce et Management (EMD) MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design
Megaprojects are large, technically complex, multi-year, billion-dollar (or more) engineering and financial ventures that somehow overcome challenges, turbulence, risk and resistance to eventually meet the needs for which they are…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #587Idea 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…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #579Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: Kellogg School of Management
Mined materials are in many if not most of the products we buy — from the obvious such as jewellery to the not so-obvious, such as the number of mined…
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