Idea posted: April 2014

Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management    New York University Stern School of Business   

When looking for contract employees for a project, employers now have direct access to workers from across the world thanks to digital labour contract platforms such as Elance, Freelancer, Guru…

Idea posted: January 2020

Institutions: University of Missouri, St Louis   

Research has identified as non-productive the narcissistic tendencies of a leader, such as a grandiose sense of self-importance and need for constant admiration, that have a negative impact on the…

Idea posted: June 2013

Institutions: University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business    University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

Recently, faculty from Kenan-Flagler Business School and Robert H. Smith School of Business looked at the relationship between egotistic (or narcissistic) CEOs and firm performance by measuring ego by the…

Idea posted: July 2013

Institutions: Pennsylvania State University    University of Virginia Darden Business School    University of Waterloo   

According to Mirko Kremer of Pennsylvania State University, Benny Mantin of the University of Waterloo and Anton Ovchinnikov of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, there are two…

Idea posted: November 2013

Institutions: University of Pretoria Gordon Institute of Business Science   

  Music transforms experience … from the humdrum, the everyday, into something else … Music is used in theater, it is used in movies, it is used to ratify revolutions…

Idea posted: March 2014

Institutions: INSEAD    Tel Aviv University    Columbia Business School   

The next head of General Electric will be somebody who spent time in Bombay, in Hong Kong, in Buenos Aires. We have to send our best and brightest overseas and…

Idea posted: November 2013

Institutions: Henley Business School   

Businesses need to adopt a multichannel mindset when interacting with their customers, because customers use multiple channels and expect relevant, consistent experiences across all of them. This research seeks to…

Idea posted: November 2016

Institutions: University of Utah David Eccles School of Business   

Most people multi-task because they think they can do it well — and that they will acquire the rewards of multi-tasking, such as saving time and being less bored with…

Idea posted: May 2016

Institutions: Clark University Graduate School of Management    Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

Self-determination theory describes four types of motivation, moving on a spectrum from other-directed to self-directed. External motivation is at the other-directed end of the spectrum. Motivation is based on what…