Idea posted: February 2016

Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

Whether developing new products or services, refining internal processes, or creating disruptive business models, innovation is the key to sustained competitive advantage. Many companies, however, are unable to meet their…

Idea posted: February 2016

Institutions: Ecole de Commerce et Management (EMD)    MIT Sloan School of Management    MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design   

Megaprojects are large, technically complex, multi-year, billion-dollar (or more) engineering and financial ventures that somehow overcome challenges, turbulence, risk and resistance to eventually meet the needs for which they are…

Idea posted: February 2016

Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford    King's College London    Warwick University Business School   

Transforming academic research from pure knowledge into real-world business or organizational practices is challenging for a wide variety of reasons. Time is an issue. Business unit or organizational leaders have…

Idea posted: February 2016

Institutions: New York University School of Medicine    Cornell University Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management   

There is a growing consensus that employee wellness is good not only for the employee but also good for the company. It’s not just a matter of sick days. Healthier…

Idea posted: February 2016

Institutions: IMD    University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics    Claremont Graduate University Drucker School of Management   

If you’re a national or international company with marketing authority and practices spread across various locations, or if you have a diversified group of products or businesses that call for…

Idea posted: February 2016

Institutions: IE Business School    Columbia Business School    Emory University Goizueta Business School    China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)    Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University    Utrecht University   

People react differently to decisions based on what they perceive was the fairness of the outcome as well as the fairness of the process — and whether or not they…

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: 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: Central Michigan University College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences   

Even the most well-intentioned people can be swayed by almost subconscious, automatic biases against certain categories of people — what scientists call “implicit out-group bias.” These biases emerge from engrained…