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…

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,…

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…

Idea posted: October 2014

Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business    University of Chicago Booth School of Business    University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

Using the movie exhibition industry as its central case study, a team of researchers studied how the entry of a new movie theatre impacts an incumbent’s theatre movie choices. From…

Idea posted: September 2014

Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania    McGill University   

The best students from the best universities and graduate schools will be attracted to the most desirable companies to work for in their industries. At first glance, it would seem…

Idea posted: April 2016

Institutions: MIT Sloan School of Management   

Customers make a decision about which product to buy in two ways. The first method is to search for information about the product. For example, a customer might read online…

Idea posted: October 2016

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business   

Creativity is generating creative ideas. Innovation is successfully implementing creative ideas. Past researchers have connected creators to implementation by looking at such factors as network position: if creators have the…

Idea posted: February 2013

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business   

Leaders can have a ripple effect through their company, particularly those in the C-suite; their actions reverberate throughout the organization, with followers sometimes even mimicking them. The CEO of BAE…

Idea posted: December 2018

Institutions: King's College London    Freie Universität Berlin   

Can organizations of vastly different sizes collaborate effectively? An intriguing case study based on 25 interviews with the actors involved offers a sobering answer: perhaps, but it will be a…