Idea posted: June 2013

Institutions: Egon Zehnder International   

Discussing her return to PwC as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in 2012, Carol Sawdye said she would be spending much of her first year on the job focused on “change…

Idea posted: June 2013

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business    Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business    University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business   

Through their research, the authors set out to examine the effects that leaders at different levels in an organization have on each other. To do so, they investigated the relation…

Idea posted: May 2013

Institutions: INSEAD   

Strategic embeddedness is a priority for companies; a strategy is much more likely to succeed if a critical mass of employees understands and accepts it. Despite this, articles on strategic…

Idea posted: April 2013

Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School   

The industrial age bought with it bureaucratic principles of work organization. Things we now consider commonplace were considered major innovations, such as employing staff in an official capacity, building hierarchies…

Idea posted: April 2013

Institutions: INSEAD   

For big corporations, regardless of industry, making disruptive changes is not a question of money: many have substantial budgets. It is a question of mind set and how you position…

Idea posted: March 2013

Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania   

Research shows that 50 to 75 per cent of all change initiatives fail. And yet, some companies are consistently better at successfully implementing change, and some leaders successfully lead a…

Idea posted: February 2013

Institutions: Harvard Business School   

Flattening (or delayering) of hierarchies within an organization has been called for by much recent literature. In theory, flattening is supposed to help push decisions downwards to enhance customer and…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: IMD   

In 2003 the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it attempted to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere. The disaster was found to have been caused by a piece of foam insulation that…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Lancaster University Management School    China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)    Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management   

It is a rare company that is able to anticipate a new set of requirements, mobilize resources to meet them, radically change their ways and reclaim leading positions in their…