Idea posted: April 2020

Institutions: Goethe University Frankfurt    University of Adelaide Business School    Hanken School of Economics    Maastricht University   

Shareholders can submit complaints to publicly-traded companies on a broad range of topics, including poor financial performance, poor governance, dissatisfaction with the firm strategy, or a controversial change in leadership,…

Idea posted: April 2013

Institutions: University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business   

Executives cannot afford to ignore the dangers posed by acting overconfidently. Numerous examples in recent history can attest to this, from the inflation of the dot-com bubble in the late…

Idea posted: July 2022

Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

Resilience is the ability to adaptively respond to challenges and avoid the burnout and feelings of being overwhelmed that can damage the well-being, health and performance of leaders and employees.…

Idea posted: June 2013

Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business   

Much of the recent research into leadership seems to note the same thing: current leadership theories are lacking something, or limiting in their conceptualization. Elaborating on this, the author of…

Idea posted: July 2015

Institutions: MIT Sloan School of Management    Tuck School of Business    Boston University Questrom School of Business   

There are a variety of product-related services that manufacturers offer their customers. New research pinpoints the following different categories of services: Complementary services help customers feel more comfortable buying the…

Idea posted: December 2013

Institutions: Case Western Reserve University    ESADE   

What distinguishes good leaders from great leaders? This research suggests that the key lies in the way they approach the task of leadership and coaching, inspiring others to achieve their…

Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: Indian School of Business   

Both agency theory and stewardship theory help explain organizational dynamics, although starting from very different assumptions. Agency theory describes the relationship between the shareholders (called ‘principals’) and the company’s managers…

Idea posted: February 2015

Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business    Rady School of Management   

Research in academic laboratory settings — that is, within controlled experiments with voluntary participants — has shown that individuals with deeper voices are perceived as having more leadership capabilities. Different…

Idea posted: March 2015

Institutions: ESMT European School of Management and Technology    Tongji University   

Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC), a company that specialized in the large-scale cranes used to load containers onto ships, burst on the heavy machinery landscape in 1992. At that time,…