Idea posted: September 2020

Institutions: University of Southern California Marshall School of Business    McGill University   

Teamwork is never easy, and cross-functional teamwork is especially challenging given the starkly different experiences, knowledge and perspectives that team members bring to the team. To span the divisions, participants…

Idea posted: September 2020

Institutions: University of Virginia Darden Business School    Kellogg School of Management   

The dearth of female leaders in industry, despite the stated intentions of most companies and organizations to encourage diversity and promote women, is well documented. Past studies in this field…

Idea posted: September 2020

Institutions: INSEAD   

Many executives struggle to accomplish their mandate as executives: aligning the people from top to bottom in the organization behind the goals and actions that ensure the company’s success. The…

Idea posted: September 2020

Institutions: Cass Business School, City University London    Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University    Drexel University LeBow College of Business   

An extensive review of innovation studies in leading academic journals reveal that constraints on innovation are not necessarily negative. In fact, according to this careful analysis of 145 academic studies,…

Idea posted: April 2020

Institutions: University of California, Santa Barbara    Kellogg School of Management    Harvard Business School   

Triadic relationships are common in the workplace. For example, two employees, Sharon and Mark, may share negative feelings about a third employee, Kathy; Kathy, in return, has negative feelings about…

Idea posted: April 2020

Institutions: Wilson Perumal & Company   

Furniture retailer IKEA successfully expanded from its home base in rural Sweden to 52 countries across the globe. In contrast, Wal-Mart, the capital-rich retail leader in the largest economy in…

Idea posted: April 2020

Institutions: Boston Consulting Group   

Terms such as ‘volatility’ and ‘disruption’ are often used to describe a world in which competitive advantage is increasingly difficult to maintain. The extent of such volatility and disruption is…

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 2020

Institutions: Henley Business School   

In the UK, Regional mental health trusts provide mental health services. Hospitals, GPs and other ‘’commissioning organizations’, such as crisis centres refer patients to these trusts. The mental health trusts…