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Generalist CEOs Not Specialists Spur Innovation
Idea posted: April 2014
Institutions: Arizona State University Nova School of Business and Economics University of Virginia Darden Business School
Generalist CEOs are CEOs who have worked in different organizational areas, for a number of different firms, in different industries, or even in a conglomerate firm. Former IBM CEO and…
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Innovation Partnerships-Loosely or Tightly Coupled?
Idea posted: February 2014
Institutions: IESE Business School INSEAD Northeastern University DAmore-McKim School of Business
Increased emphasis on continual innovation — and increased awareness that it demands knowledge beyond the confines of a single organization — means research partnerships have become a more common and…
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Mothers of Invention: Companies that ‘Spawn’ New Enterprises
Idea posted: February 2014
Institutions: EDHEC Business School University of Zurich HEC Paris
Entrepreneurial spawning — whereby an existing company gives birth to another company, founded by former employees — is prevalent in many new industries. (California’s Fairchild Semiconductor, for example, is ‘mother’…
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Jugaad Innovation: Lessons for the West
Idea posted: June 2013
Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School
Innovation in the West has become too rigid, insular and bloated to remain effective, according to Judge Business School’s Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu and Simone Ahuja. During the recent economic…
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Managing Workforce Ideas Effectively
Idea posted: April 2013
Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Idea management programs can be used to increase the proportion of successfully implemented projects based on ideas contributed voluntarily by employees. This research highlights that people who come forward with…
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The Pros and Cons of Sharing Intellectual Property
Idea posted: April 2013
Institutions: HEC Paris INSEAD
The purpose of R&D is to invest time and money in a technology in order to bring it to market to make a profit. The window of competitive advantage that…
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Last Call for Social Media Sceptics
Idea posted: January 2013
Institutions: Deloitte Consulting LLP MIT Sloan School of Management
How are managers today using social media tools and how important are those tools becoming to their organizations? In collaboration with Deloitte, MIT Sloan Management Review conducted a survey of…
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Driving Risk Appetite Higher or Lower: Penalties Vs Rewards
Idea posted: January 2013
Institutions: University of Virginia Darden Business School
In many organizations, collaborative innovation teams are utilized to manage new product development initiatives. This involves different types of managers (marketing, operations, engineering, etc.) working together to allocate resources to…
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