Idea posted: January 2015

Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania    London Business School    Warwick University Business School   

When the most important asset of a company is human capital, attracting and retaining high-quality, motivated employees is the key to sustainable competitive advantage. High employee satisfaction makes the company…

Idea 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…

Idea posted: January 2015

Institutions: HEC Paris    McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management    University of Alabama at Birmingham Collat School of Business   

Online communities can be the source of staggering feats of pooled knowledge creation, with volunteers from around the world combining their expertise. Think of Wikipedia, or of Linux, or even…

Idea posted: October 2014

Institutions: ESMT European School of Management and Technology   

The increasing sophistication of communication technologies and channels, data analytics, market intelligence, and virtual working in organizations has dramatically increased the strategic importance of information. At the same time, digital…

Idea posted: October 2014

Institutions: ESMT European School of Management and Technology    The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania   

Entrepreneurs innovating in the technology space often lack the know-how or “specialized complementary assets” within their companies to successfully commercialize their innovations. Consequently, to date, the academic literature on this…

Idea posted: October 2014

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management   

Traditionally, industry-leading companies used to be large conglomerates that gained their dominant competitive advantage through an accumulation of assets and positions, which gave them unbeatable economies of scale. Thanks to…

Idea posted: November 2013

Institutions: University of St. Gallen   

A company’s business model is the ultimate measure by which it is judged, as it expresses the underlying logic of its business. Most importantly, it explains how it creates and…

Idea posted: March 2013

Institutions: Banca March    IE Business School   

A report published in 2012, Value Creation in Listed European Family Firms, showed that listed European family businesses have created more value over the last decade than non-family concerns, achieving…