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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Idea posted: November 2016

Institutions: Singapore Management University    University of Michigan Ross School of Business    Harvard Business School    Lee Kong Chian School of Business   

Companies in technologically dynamic industries — industries in which competitive advantage is built on innovation and R&D breakthroughs — seek out different types of partner firms than companies in technologically…

Idea posted: April 2016

Institutions: Dartmouth College   

The idea of a new invention may seem to suddenly appear in the imagination of the inventor. In truth, the inventor has carefully constructed the idea by combining different ‘elements…

Idea posted: April 2016

Institutions: WHU–Otto Beisheim School of Management    York University Schulich School of Business    Concordia University John Molson School of Business   

Entrepreneurs need money to fund their ideas. Many legendary start-ups received their early funding from venture capitalists. However, VC’s are now more interested in contributing to later stage companies rather…

Idea 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…