Idea posted: April 2020

Institutions: Henley Business School   

In the UK, Regional mental health trusts provide mental health services. Hospitals, GPs and other ‘’commissioning organizations’, such as crisis centres refer patients to these trusts. The mental health trusts…

Idea posted: November 2022

Institutions: University of Virginia Darden Business School    University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business   

People treat each other differently at work than in non-work settings, and with good reason: they are work colleagues brought together solely to accomplish the work necessary for their jobs.…

Idea posted: March 2025

Institutions: University ofBologna Business School    KEDGE Business School   

One might expect that newly hired employees who signal a 100% commitment to their jobs by indicating their willingness to work long hours and undertake weekend projects, for example, will…

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…