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How Career Concerns Impact Managers’ Adoption of New Technology
Idea posted: January 2025
Institutions: Boston University; Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
The adoption of new technology by companies and their leaders is often slow. Reasons for this hesitation can range from incentive structures that push managers to favor established technology, as…
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As Technology Upends Jobs, Which Skills Pay More?
Idea posted: May 2024
Institutions: London School of Economics Citi Global Data Insights
Emerging technologies from AI to quantum computing and genetic engineering have launched a Fourth Industrial Revolution an era, accelerated by COVID-19, that is transforming the workplace. Through in-depth analyses of…
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Distance Is Not Dead: How Face-to-Face Collaborations Lead to Greater Mutual Learning
Idea posted: April 2024
Institutions: Kellogg School of Management University of Hong Kong; Northwestern University
Because of new communications technologies, including a proliferation of video-conferencing options over the Internet, many have declared the “death of distance.” Geographical separation of even thousands of miles is no…
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How to Turn Automation into an Opportunity for Middle Managers
Idea posted: April 2024
Institutions: York University WHUOtto Beisheim School of Management University of Western Australia University of Mainz
The evolving sophistication and scope of automation and AI technology will impact the jobs of individuals at all levels of the organization. For middle managers, automation can threaten to render…
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Companies Need to Better Prepare Their People for AI
Idea posted: March 2024
Institutions: Washington State University Carson College of Business
More than half of American professionals use artificial intelligence (AI) in their jobs, according to research from Washington State University’s Carson College of Business. The research was based on a…
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Algorithmic Decision Making Preferred Over Human Deciders
Idea posted: August 2023
Institutions: University of Michigan; Drexel University Michigan State University
To what extent are we as humans ready to accept decisions made by computers? This was the question at the heart of a study from Michigan State University and Drexel…
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Resolve Workload Conflicts When Integrating New Technology
Idea posted: January 2023
Institutions: MIT Sloan School of Management
While new technology is intended to make work more efficient and effective, it often helps the professionals in a company while increasing the workload and decreasing the autonomy of assistants…
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Onboarding AI to Gain Employee Trust and Acceptance
Idea posted: January 2022
Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management Toulouse School of Economics INSEAD New York University Stern School of Business
Artificial Intelligence is both appreciated and feared: appreciated for the benefits it offers in terms of speed, accuracy and consistency; feared because many believe those benefits can render many human…
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Family Firms Innovate Less But Better: Their Boards Make a Difference
Idea posted: September 2021
Institutions: Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg RWTH Aachen University
We expect start-ups and high technology companies in general to be innovators. We know, in contrast, that large incumbents are likely to want to continue to exploit their past innovations…
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