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CEO Personality: The Cornerstone of Corporate Culture
Idea posted: September 2024
Institutions: Stanford University Graduate School of Business; MIT Sloan School of Management
The impact of corporate culture on a firm's success has been widely studied. A consensus exists among scholars and practitioners that CEOs, through their decisions and behaviors, play a vital…
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Diversity and Inclusion: How Leaders Convince Others to Follow their Lead
Idea posted: August 2024
Institutions: Haskayne School of Business Beedle School of Business; University of Calgary Simon Fraser University
Women continue to battle inequality and discrimination in many different forms in companies and organizations. While progress has been made, many women continue to be paid less than men, to…
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Use Dynamic Capabilities for Strategic Succession Planning
Idea posted: August 2024
Institutions: Labovitz School of Business and Economics University of Minnesota Duluth; Huntsman School of Business Utah State University
A study by Ormonde Cragun of the University of Minnesota Duluth and Michael Ulrich of Utah State University applies the principles of “Dynamic Capabilities” to succession planning to create a…
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Innovation, Resources, and Resilience to Crises
Idea posted: August 2024
Institutions: University of La Rioja; University of Surrey
The COVID-19 crisis has sparked new interest in the resilience of organizations in the face of a widespread crisis on the scale of the pandemic. A study by a team…
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Which Firms Are More Likely to Accept Flexible Work Arrangements?
Idea posted: July 2024
Institutions: Henley Business School University of Reading University of Edinburgh School of Business
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the flexible work arrangements mindset and attitudes of both employees and businesses: many employees had become comfortable working from home, and many businesses realized that flexible…
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DEI Under Fire and the Future of Gender Equality
Idea posted: July 2024
Institutions: Vanderbilt University University of Virginia University of Toronto
As more politicians and courts turn against Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) programs, more firms and organizations are proactively dropping these programs to avoid future lawsuits. How will this trend impact…
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Workspace Discontent Pushes Workers to Prefer Hybrid Work
Idea posted: July 2024
Institutions: The University of Edinburgh Business School; Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Edinburgh College of Art Queen Mary University of London
The widespread experiment in remote work forced on society by the pandemic proved that employees are not less productive working from home and that companies can achieve the same results…
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CEO Altruism Leads to More Corporate Social Responsibility
Idea posted: June 2024
Institutions: University of Reading Henley Business School
How much do a CEO’s values influence firm activities? To answer this question, a team of researchers from Henley Business School and the University of Edinburgh explored the impact of…
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Developing Psychological Capital for Aspiring, Diverse Leaders
Idea posted: June 2024
Institutions: Drucker School of Management Claremont Graduate University Chulalongkorn University
The retirement of boomers from the workforce offers opportunities for companies to fulfill their promise to diversify their leadership by encouraging and enabling more women, LGBTQ+, people of color, Native…
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