Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: University of Pretoria Gordon Institute of Business Science    University of New Mexico Anderson School of Management   

"Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu" – A person is a person through other persons. (from the humanist African philosophy Ubuntu) The ‘bottom of the pyramid’ (BoP), the world’s poorest socio-economic group, as…

Idea posted: November 2013

Institutions: Maastricht School of Management    United Nation University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU MERIT)    Tilburg University   

A growing body of literature demonstrates the positive impact of regional clusters and networks on innovation. Including links to government agencies and research institutes as well as to similar companies…

Idea posted: November 2013

Institutions: University of Illinois College of Business    INSEAD   

Many research studies provide evidence of the impact of culture on leadership. For example, the Global Leadership and Organizational Behaviour Effectiveness study or GLOBE, one of the most extensive comparative…

Idea posted: October 2013

Institutions: IMD   

In the quest to achieve global efficiency, often companies find themselves faced with a dilemma: how can they manage the various processes needed to run a global organization, yet keep…

Idea posted: October 2013

Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

Latin America has been enjoying stable growth in recent years. In January 2013, the BBC reported that the region’s economic growth had outstripped that of Europe for the past eight…

Idea posted: October 2013

Institutions: IE Business School    Rouen Business School   

International assignments are generally viewed as a positive thing to do, something to aspire to, and given today’s more globalised world, this kind of experience should hasten your progress up…

Idea posted: October 2013

Institutions: Tuck School of Business   

A parent company can either centralize decision-making related to a foreign subsidiary at the parent company headquarters or decentralize those decisions to the subsidiary. Working with two decades worth of…

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management   

Susan Perkins, a professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and a visiting professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, sought to empirically measure the role of prior international…

Idea posted: March 2013

Institutions: Columbia Business School   

Sooner or later, any engineer working on new technology or infrastructure will hear a familiar question from investors: Does it scale up? There are few axioms in business as simple…