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How to Align Conflicting Corporate Strategies to Functions

Idea posted: November 2020

Institutions: Oregon State University College of Business    The University of Auckland Business School    PwC New Zealand   

Corporate strategy rarely offers a clear and unified directive for the company’s functions and business units. Instead, companies often have competing sets of corporate strategies. In a study based on…

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Why Project Leaders Are Different from Project Managers

Idea posted: August 2019

Institutions: Business Evolution    Cranfield University School of Management   

Large, complex projects are increasingly used to achieve organizational goals. The development of an innovative new product or service, for example, or launching a major strategic initiative will take place…

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Supervising Projects Despite Limited Time and Expertise

Idea posted: June 2017

Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School    Stockholm School of Economics    HEC Paris   

A company in the facility engineering industry took on a large and complex project that presented both technical challenges and was subject to legal regulations that affected customer requirements. Unfortunately,…

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What Influences Our Choices? What Others Prefer or What They Actually Consume

Idea posted: October 2015

Institutions: University of Florida Warrington College of Business Administration    University of Chicago Booth School of Business   

Through a series of experiments, two researchers from the University of Chicago (PhD candidate Yanping Tu, now at the University of Florida, and professor Ayelet Fishbach) revealed that the old…

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How to Use Compensation and Team Composition to Manage Procrastination

Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: NUS Business School    Georgia Institute of Technology Scheller College of Business    Rady School of Management   

Many project managers are now working with contract or distant employees who have some autonomy in how they plan out the assignment. These projects required highly skilled workers but often…

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Negotiate a Career with a Heart for You and Your Employees

Idea posted: November 2014

Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business    Boston University Questrom School of Business    California State University   

Do you wake up every morning and cannot wait to start working? Have you been challenged and fulfilled in every step of your career journey? Throughout your many jobs, do…

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Balancing Incentives, Risk and Tolerance of Failure for Collaborative Innovation

Idea posted: July 2014

Institutions: University of Virginia Darden Business School   

Innovation through collaborative teams can succeed or fail in large part based on resources dedicated to the venture. While many factors may ultimately impact success or failure, all else being…

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Flexibility Vs Commitment in the Entrepreneurial Process

Idea posted: August 2013

Institutions: EMLYON Business School   

Scholars have identified different approaches to the management of uncertainty in the entrepreneurial process. The ‘classic’ model is ‘focused commitment’. The argument in this stream of research is that making…

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Why Scaling Up Is No Longer the Only Strategy

Idea posted: March 2013

Institutions: Columbia Business School   

Sooner or later, any engineer working on new technology or infrastructure will hear a familiar question from investors: Does it scale up? There are few axioms in business as simple…

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