Idea posted: February 2016

Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford   

The word ‘scenarios’ has many different meanings in a variety of fields and disciplines. In strategic planning, scenarios refer to a small set of carefully structured and tailored narratives about the future…

Idea posted: September 2015

Institutions: INSEAD    Harvard Business School    Columbia Business School   

Is sarcasm in the workplace as destructive as usually assumed? While sarcasm — in which people express one thing by saying the exact opposite — is rampant in organizations, most…

Idea posted: August 2015

Institutions: NUS Business School    Technische Universität Darmstadt   

Learning from errors is central to human development. Learning in a business context occurs best when there is a mind-set of acceptance of human error, and furthermore the experimental trials…

Idea posted: April 2015

Institutions: University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business    NUS Business School   

While large corporations may have the bandwidth to organize mandatory, sustained in-house training programs, smaller companies must depend on outside organizations and the government to provide training. The challenge with…

Idea posted: March 2015

Institutions: Claremont Graduate University Drucker School of Management   

With the dominant, almost overwhelming impact that social media has on just about any function of a business, it’s easy to forget that social media is barely a decade old.…

Idea posted: March 2015

Institutions: IESE Business School   

Expatriate assignments are great opportunities for employees and managers assigned overseas to not only increase their personal knowledge, but also share knowledge across units. In a study on the knowledge…

Idea posted: July 2014

Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania   

Why do so many people make New Year’s resolutions? Because the New Year is the most obvious and universal of temporal landmarks — the dates or periods in time that…

Idea posted: June 2014

Institutions: Henley Business School   

Leaders drive the process of organizational learning and adaptation by providing time and space, granting the freedom to explore and fail, and by encouraging those around them to look at…

Idea posted: June 2014

Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business    University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School    Harvard Business School   

The nature and dynamics of today’s organizations are such that failures are almost inevitable; the failure of a new product initiative or the failure of an existing strategy to meet…