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…

Idea posted: March 2022

Institutions: London School of Economics    University of Edinburgh    Copenhagen Business School   

Effective communication among members of a team or organization is key to the success of a group. Fast and direct face-to-face communication would appear to be the ideal method of…

Idea posted: March 2022

Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University   

Building on his own research, and other studies and theories developed by researchers in the field of ethics and morality, RSM professor Muel Kaptein offers a framework that answers the…

Idea posted: March 2022

Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)   

In Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect, Matthew Lieberman challenges the long‑standing assumption that human intelligence evolved primarily for solving abstract, non‑social problems. Instead, he argues that the…

Idea posted: February 2022

Institutions: Case Western Reserve University    Wake Forest University   

Baumeister and Leary’s paper is one of the most influential contributions in social psychology, proposing that the need to belong is a basic human motivation comparable to hunger or safety.…