Idea posted: April 2026

Institutions: Centre for the New Economy and Society; World Economic Forum   

A World Economic Forum White Paper emphasises that competitiveness in the new economy relies heavily on investment in people; technological investment alone will not deliver resilience or productivity gains. While…

Idea posted: July 2025

Institutions: Purdue University    Anderson University   

Karpicke and Blunt's paper challenges the prevailing educational focus on encoding knowledge, often overlooking the critical role of retrieval processes. Traditional views suggest retrieval merely measures what has been learned,…

Idea posted: December 2024

Institutions: Ashoka Canada    The Systems Sanctuary   

In business, to “scale” means to become larger, to grow. Scaling has been adapted to the social and environmental sectors in the concepts of scaling up (influencing policy) and scaling…

Idea posted: October 2024

Institutions: Johns Hopkins University   

Vicarious learning, that is, learning from the experiences of others in the organization, including your peers, has always been a vital component of collective learning in any organization. Traditionally, vicarious…

Idea posted: May 2023

Institutions: York University    Johns Hopkins University   

After we have finished a compelling book or a film, the narrative of the story will linger in our minds. This lingering is involuntary: we do not choose or decide…

Idea posted: February 2023

Institutions: IÉSEG School of Management    Bocconi University Department of Management & Technology   

Knowledge acquired from contacts in the social networks of employees can influence and impact their creativity—contributing, for example, insights, perspectives, and supporting material to help them generate innovative ideas for…

Idea posted: March 2021

Institutions: Henley Business School    University of Surrey Business School   

Personality traits can impact how well people learn. For the Big Five personality traits, for example, previous research has found that Conscientiousness, Extraversion and Openness (being open to new ideas…

Idea posted: November 2020

Institutions: University of Delaware Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics    Thunderbird School of Global Management    Arizona State University    University of Houston-Clear Lake   

Interest in the need to develop training programs for women entrepreneurs is growing, especially in developing countries where the potential influence of women entrepreneurs is significant. In these countries, woman…

Idea posted: November 2020

Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business    INSEAD    Johns Hopkins University    Arizona State University W. P. Carey School of Business    Entrepreneur Futures Network   

Mentors with extensive entrepreneurial experience can make a significant contribution to the success of new or less experienced entrepreneurs facing the inevitable setbacks of early stage ventures. Many entrepreneurial mentoring…