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Why Project Leaders Are Different from Project Managers

Idea posted: August 2019

Institutions: Business Evolution    Cranfield University School of Management   

Large, complex projects are increasingly used to achieve organizational goals. The development of an innovative new product or service, for example, or launching a major strategic initiative will take place…

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Why Previous Experience of New CEOs Makes Matters Worse!

Idea posted: December 2015

Institutions: IE Business School    Neoma Business School   

Should a board hire a former or current CEO from another company to become the new CEO? In the past, companies tended to promote new CEOs from within, ensuring that…

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Why Personalized Marketing Succeeds or Backfires

Idea posted: September 2021

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management    Ohio State University Fisher College of Business    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid   

A study based on an exhaustive review of the research related to personalized marketing—marketing that is tailored to the interests or personalities of consumers—dissects the psychological and contextual factors that…

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Why Performance Improvements Don’t Lead to Higher Trust

Idea posted: April 2020

Institutions: Henley Business School   

In the UK, Regional mental health trusts provide mental health services. Hospitals, GPs and other ‘’commissioning organizations’, such as crisis centres refer patients to these trusts. The mental health trusts…

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Why Performance Improvements Don’t Lead to Higher Trust

Idea posted: January 2020

Institutions: Henley Business School   

In the UK, Regional mental health trusts provide mental health services. Hospitals, GPs and other ‘’commissioning organizations’, such as crisis centres refer patients to these trusts. The mental health trusts…

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Why Objectification of People Is Rampant at Work

Idea posted: November 2022

Institutions: University of Virginia Darden Business School    University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business   

People treat each other differently at work than in non-work settings, and with good reason: they are work colleagues brought together solely to accomplish the work necessary for their jobs.…

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Why Managers Forgive Ethical Lapses of Tired Employees

Idea posted: October 2018

Institutions: Guizhou University of Finance and Economics    NUS Business School    Kellogg School of Management   

It’s not surprising to see people in the workplace tired and depleted. The cognitive consequences of such fatigue — the negative impact on people’s ability to think clearly and make…

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Why Leaders Sabotage Their Own Teams

Idea posted: February 2015

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management   

In most hierarchies, power is malleable, which means that it can change. A leader at the top can lose his or her power, and be replaced by subordinates who have,…

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Why Inferior Innovations Often Beat the Best

Idea posted: May 2014

Institutions: INSEAD    University of British Columbia   

New products and technologies often fail to depose inferior ‘incumbents’. (The classic example is the Dvorak keyboard, which, despite being more efficient, lost out to the original QWERTY model in…

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