Idea posted: March 2018

Institutions: ESC Rennes School of Business    ESADE   

Reflecting the growing trend of companies searching beyond the boundaries of the firm for innovative ideas, British Petroleum hired innovation intermediary InnoCentive to broadcast an appeal for new ways to…

Idea posted: March 2018

Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gies College of Business   

In 1980, the U.S. freight railroad industry was deregulated. Railroad companies now had the freedom to abandon unprofitable lines and acquire new ones. They were also no longer banned from…

Idea posted: March 2018

Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business   

Companies spend 12% of their marketing budget on social media, which is three times more than in 2009. And this trend is only going to accelerate: marketing leaders expect that…

Idea posted: March 2018

Institutions: University of Lausanne    The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania    University of California Davis Graduate School of Management   

In general, previous research shows a linear relationship between intelligence and perceived leadership effectiveness, with the line heading steadily northeast (the more intelligent, the higher your actual and perceived leadership capabilities).…

Idea posted: March 2018

Institutions: University of California, San Diego    University of Bonn   

Companies have two options for the acquisition of customers through customer online searches. The first is to pay for search ads — those links that appear at the top of…

Idea posted: March 2018

Institutions: Rutgers University Business School   

The steadily declining effectiveness of traditional marketing approaches — from advertising to direct mail in the mailbox to email blasts — has been well-documented. Traditional marketing is too often equated…

Idea posted: March 2018

Institutions: Columbia Business School    Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management   

Many consumers find it more difficult to justify buying frivolous, hedonic purchases — in other words, purchases from fine chocolates and DVDs to vacations that are motivated by fun and…

Idea posted: March 2018

Institutions: UCLA Anderson School of Management    University of Southern California Marshall School of Business    University of Toronto Rotman School of Management   

The popularity of customer review sites such as Yelp and TripAdvisor have turned these sites into an important element of a service company’s marketing package. According to the results of…

Idea posted: March 2018

Institutions: Henley Business School   

Traditionally, according to Tony Dyson of Tessera Consulting and Kevin Money of Henley Business School, companies and organizations engage in what they call ‘silo communication.” Different parts of the organization…