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 2022

Institutions: University of Virginia    University of Virginia Darden Business School    Kenan-Flagler Business School    University of California    University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business    University of Chicago Booth School of Business    Harvard Business School   

Companies recognize today that helping employees find meaning and purpose in their work will maximize employee satisfaction, motivation, engagement, and performance. The challenge for leaders is how to increase meaning…

Idea posted: May 2022

Institutions: LMU Munich    University of Konstanz   

Prior research has revealed a ‘glass cliff’ phenomenon: Companies in crisis situations are more likely to appoint women top managers than companies that are not in trouble. These disproportionate crisis…

Idea posted: April 2022

Institutions: University of St. Gallen    University of Kassel   

In a bid to increase the agility, quality, and speed of its product development process, companies are exploring with the use of external talent through crowdworking—a form of crowdsourcing in…

Idea posted: April 2022

Institutions: Bayes Business School    CityUniversity of London   

An ongoing collaborative research project, led by Bayes Business School professor Charles Baden-Fuller and involving scholars from around the world, has developed a fundamental typology of business models based on…

Idea posted: March 2022

Institutions: Stanford University    Georgetown University McDonough School of Business   

Work-from-home (WFH) flexibility was once available only to a select group of employees and professions. The sudden emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic forced companies in many industries to make WFH…

Idea posted: March 2022

Institutions: Emory University Goizueta Business School   

The Internet age, some argue, heralds “the death of distance.” For example, aside from occasional utilitarian factors, such as shipping costs, geography is irrelevant to a purchasing decision. Unlike physical…

Idea posted: March 2022

Institutions: George Mason University    Georgetown University McDonough School of Business   

Failure can undermine the confidence of employees, causing them to avoid setting ambitious goals, and to experience high stress and give up more easily when faced with challenges. Many leaders…

Idea posted: March 2022

Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford   

While the technological capabilities and impact of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought significant change to multiple facets of business and even society, the core of AI is still machines, not…