Idea posted: March 2021

Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School    Simon Fraser University, Beedie School of Business    University of Victoria Peter B. Gustavson School of Business   

Significant developments such as new strategies, new competitive pressures, or new leadership often require changes to a company’s organizational culture. This undertaking, however, is complicated by the amorphous nature of…

Idea posted: March 2021

Institutions: MIT Sloan School of Management    Harvard Business School   

Many studies have confirmed the importance of sleep on our cognitive functions — our ability to think clearly and work productively. While previous studies use self-report surveys or a laboratory…

Idea posted: March 2021

Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania    New York University Stern School of Business   

The world of business, and society at large, accepts the need for greater diversity at the highest levels of business, government and other domains. This general consensus, however, has not…

Idea posted: March 2021

Institutions: University of Virginia   

Women continue to be vastly under-represented at the top levels of business, with recent figures in the U.S. indicating that less than 5% of major corporations CEOs are women, and…

Idea posted: December 2020

Institutions: UCLA Anderson School of Management    University of Chicago Booth School of Business    The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania   

Past research has demonstrated that high external performance expectations (e.g., from supervisors, co-workers, clients, family, friends, and the media) can motivate individuals to increase their efforts and be more persistent,…

Idea posted: November 2020

Institutions: Pan-Atlantic University Lagos Business School   

Previous studies have demonstrated the quality of decisions that emerge from cross-functional teams. Most of these studies focus on the outcome of cross-functional deliberations, but not the deliberation process itself.…

Idea posted: November 2020

Institutions: Oregon State University College of Business    The University of Auckland Business School    PwC New Zealand   

Corporate strategy rarely offers a clear and unified directive for the company’s functions and business units. Instead, companies often have competing sets of corporate strategies. In a study based on…

Idea posted: November 2020

Institutions: University of Rijeka    George Washington University   

While businesspeople have a sense of what strategic thinking entails, defining this familiar concept in specific terms is a challenge. We know that strategic thinking and operational thinking are different,…

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…