Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: IMD   

Most companies now understand the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and recognize it as a tool to strengthen their businesses while contributing to society at the same time. The…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Ageno School of Business    Golden Gate University    University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business    University of California, Berkeley   

What is it exactly that makes a Chief Information Officer (CIO) successful? Setting out to examine the factors that determine growth and acceleration in a CIO’s career, the authors of…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Duke University    Harvard Business School    University of Washington   

Open communication is extremely important; it must exist for both employee input and successful team performance to take place. But does leader power diminish open communication? Through three studies, the…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Deloitte Consulting LLP    MIT Sloan School of Management   

How are managers today using social media tools and how important are those tools becoming to their organizations? In collaboration with Deloitte, MIT Sloan Management Review conducted a survey of…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: IMD   

This is the critical turning point in a manager’s career; the time when they move from leading a function to leading an enterprise for the first time. Conducting an extensive…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: University of Virginia Darden Business School   

In many organizations, collaborative innovation teams are utilized to manage new product development initiatives. This involves different types of managers (marketing, operations, engineering, etc.) working together to allocate resources to…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

The global growth of a company depends on its developing effective leaders. Questions, such as where and how are the most important ‘lessons of leadership’ learned, and what are those…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Harvard Business School   

Do managers at all levels routinely - and unwittingly - undermine the meaningfulness of work for their direct subordinates through everyday words and actions? Of all the events that can…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Montpellier Business School    Boston University Questrom School of Business   

Truly democratizing knowledge requires an open organization where employees can deliberate, argue, compete and collaborate horizontally across fields of expertise. One possible solution to this end is the internal knowledge…