Idea posted: February 2013

Institutions: Georgetown University McDonough School of Business    University of Michigan Ross School of Business   

What makes for sustainable individual and organizational performance? Employees who are thriving - not just satisfied and productive but also engaged in creating the future. The authors found that people…

Idea posted: February 2013

Institutions: HEC Paris   

Salespeople are a force to be reckoned within organizations. Situated at the interface between companies and customers, they play a key role in business performance. “We don’t talk about it…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: University of Santiago de Compostela    London School of Economics    Kellogg School of Management   

From the point of view of a decision maker, performance in critical moments matters much more than in other moments. Psychological skills impact that performance, and the pressures faced when…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Boston University Questrom School of Business   

How can companies help their employees reclaim lost dreams—in both professional and non-professional contexts? Those companies able to do so will go a long way towards addressing some of the…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: IMD   

In 2003 the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it attempted to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere. The disaster was found to have been caused by a piece of foam insulation that…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business   

There has been a large increase in employees working from home in recent years; in the US alone, over 10% of the workforce now report regular home-working. But there is…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: IESE Business School    Carlos III University of Madrid   

What are the patterns and signs that relate to how failure at the C-Suite level can be prevented? Well, there is no consensus as to what constitutes ‘failure’, but nevertheless…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Ageno School of Business    Golden Gate University    University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business    University of California, Berkeley   

What is it exactly that makes a Chief Information Officer (CIO) successful? Setting out to examine the factors that determine growth and acceleration in a CIO’s career, the authors of…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: INSEAD   

Any one of us can fall prey to ethical fading or cognitive bias and any one of us can make an inappropriate decision without realizing. These are not the sole…