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Corporate Governance: The Power of Outside Directors on CEO-Only Boards
Idea posted: April 2015
Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business Kellogg School of Management Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
More and more board of directors have the CEO as the only insider on the board. At first glance, this movement toward near unanimous outside directors would seem to meet…
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How to Design Organizational Structures by Understanding Organizational Routines
Idea posted: October 2014
Institutions: Tuck School of Business Boston University Questrom School of Business
How are organizational routines — routines in an organization that involve more than one individual — related to the effectiveness of an organizational design or redesign? Answering this question begins…
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How to Motivate Subsidiaries to Share Useful Know-How with Others in the Group
Idea posted: October 2014
Institutions: University of St. Gallen
It is not easy to motivate subsidiaries of multinational companies to create competence that can be useful to other subsidiaries, and for good reason. Developing competence, including know-how and technological…
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Hierarchical or Egalitarian Organizations? The Advantages of Hierarchy
Idea posted: September 2014
Institutions: York University Duke University Fuqua School of Business University of Waterloo Columbia Business School
Hierarchies have been taking a bad rap. The mantra for a number of years has been to ‘flatten’ the organizations. Hierarchies were not only seen as inefficient, but worse: as…
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Managing the Multigenerational Workplace
Idea posted: May 2014
Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
In a white paper published by Kenan-Flagler Business School, Dan Bursch and Kip Kelly describe today’s workforce has decidedly multigenerational and comprised of five generations each with distinct general characteristics:…
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Relocating Leaders Abroad: Pros and Cons
Idea posted: May 2014
Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Long-distance relocation of the whole of a company’s headquarters remains rare. Long-distance relocation of the offices of members of the top management team and of core functions such as finance…
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How to Keep Clients When a Linchpin Leaves
Idea posted: March 2014
Institutions: INSEAD
Strong relationships and social ties between clients and individual executives can be something of a double-edged sword in business. There is always the danger of client defection when the ‘linchpin’…
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Developing Network Perspective: Social Networks and Leadership
Idea posted: January 2014
Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)
Though formal hierarchies continue to be an integral part of organizational structures, in recent years individuals have been required to look beyond these towards the informal and invisible structures supporting…
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Organizational Identity and Adaptation to Disruptive Change
Idea posted: December 2013
Institutions: University of St. Gallen IMD
Discontinuous technologies refers to when new products are created that end up transforming existing markets, such as cloud computing, digital photography, 3D printing, online news, etc. Not surprisingly, they often…
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