Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: Indian School of Business   

Both agency theory and stewardship theory help explain organizational dynamics, although starting from very different assumptions. Agency theory describes the relationship between the shareholders (called ‘principals’) and the company’s managers…

Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: University of Southern California Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences    Fielding Graduate University    Claremont Graduate University   

The AIDA model of advertising identifies Attention, Interest, Desire and Action as key to the effectiveness of an advert. In order to measure the physiology behind advertising effectiveness, a research…

Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: INSEAD   

Growing up in an era of stagnating wages and increasing youth unemployment, one could forgive Millennials for being a bit pessimistic. This is not the case, however, according to a…

Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: INSEAD   

Assumptions about Millennials are rampant — for example, that they don’t want to work hard or pay their dues, or that work/life balance is more important than money or career.…

Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: Neoma Business School    University of Alberta - Alberta School of Business   

Many organizations must deal with multiple ‘logics’ that come with different and often conflicting or competing rules of the game. For example, organizations in the medical field must balance the…

Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: Bocconi University Department of Management & Technology    Technische Universität München School of Management    MIT Sloan School of Management    SDA Bocconi School of Management   

Innovation is expected to come from the producer of the product. That’s the reason manufacturers have R&D departments. But more and more innovation is emerging not just from the producers…

Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)    Melbourne Business School-Mt Eliza Executive Education   

How successful are your innovation efforts? For many companies, proof of groundbreaking innovation comes in the form of patents. The question about research productivity is often answered by how many…

Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) conducted research on the role of the word bossy in the workplace. Their results show a consistent trend that being bossy in the workplace…

Idea posted: April 2015

Institutions: University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business    NUS Business School   

While large corporations may have the bandwidth to organize mandatory, sustained in-house training programs, smaller companies must depend on outside organizations and the government to provide training. The challenge with…