Idea posted: July 2019

Institutions: University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business    Western Ontario University Ivey Business School    Jagiellonian University   

Any merger between two companies is a long, detailed, often-frustrating process in which, one hopes, the hard-earned result is a new company that represents a synergistic melding of the partners’…

Idea posted: February 2016

Institutions: University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business    HEC Paris    University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

Does a Chief Marketing Officer help a company, or is this position a ‘C’ that doesn’t earn its place in the C-suite? In 2008, an influential research study by Pravin…

Idea posted: January 2016

Institutions: Emory University Goizueta Business School    University of Miami Miller School of Medicine    The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania    University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences   

Michael Porter gave us a process for strategy development. It was a very cognitive process (i.e., using conscious mental activities such as thinking, understanding, learning, remembering) that followed prescribed steps:…

Idea posted: November 2021

Institutions: University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business    MIT Sloan School of Management    University of Mannheim   

A new study of employee misconduct in the financial services field reveals that supervisors have the most significant impact—negative or positive—on employee misconduct in their firms.  Based on 10 years…

Idea posted: September 2016

Institutions: Ashridge Executive Education, Hult International Business School   

It is well known that we are sleeping less than we ever have. To explore the impact of this lack of sleep on performance at work, two researchers from Hult…

Idea posted: October 2015

Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management    MIT Sloan School of Management   

Google was famous for its 20% free innovation time policy. Google employees were allowed to spend 20% of their time in the office to pursue any personal interests and ideas…

Idea posted: October 2017

Institutions: ESMT European School of Management and Technology    IE Business School    INSEAD   

Women are still a minority in many male-dominated professions, such as engineering and technology, as well as being a minority in leadership positions in most industries. Past studies have shown…

Idea posted: March 2013

Institutions: Columbia Business School   

Sooner or later, any engineer working on new technology or infrastructure will hear a familiar question from investors: Does it scale up? There are few axioms in business as simple…

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…