Idea posted: March 2014

Institutions: INSEAD    Indian School of Business   

Classical and neo-classical economic theory is predicated largely on an ‘impersonal’ model, in which transactions between parties are governed not by social obligations and kinship ties but by rational and…

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: Harvard Business School    University of Toronto Rotman School of Management   

Outsourcing is no longer just an operational issue. As globalization takes hold and more companies shift more activities to suppliers in emerging economies, outsourcing is now a strategic concern. Slowly,…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: University of Pretoria Gordon Institute of Business Science   

Africa’s growth and development prospects over the past decade have attracted the attention of investors, development agencies and governments across the world. ‘Traditional partners’ — i.e. the Americans and the…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: University of Pretoria Gordon Institute of Business Science    University of New Mexico Anderson School of Management   

"Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu" – A person is a person through other persons. (from the humanist African philosophy Ubuntu) The ‘bottom of the pyramid’ (BoP), the world’s poorest socio-economic group, as…

Idea posted: October 2013

Institutions: Tuck School of Business   

A parent company can either centralize decision-making related to a foreign subsidiary at the parent company headquarters or decentralize those decisions to the subsidiary. Working with two decades worth of…

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: ESADE   

The field of brand management is undergoing a metamorphosis as the pace of change in our world increases. The brand-building process we used to take for granted, particularly in terms…

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management   

Susan Perkins, a professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and a visiting professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, sought to empirically measure the role of prior international…

Idea posted: April 2013

Institutions: Tuck School of Business   

How do you sell an automobile in an emerging nation where salaries are a tiny fraction of salaries in developed countries? The traditional answer: make a cheaper model of the…