Idea posted: March 2015

Institutions: Boston College Carroll School of Management    EDHEC Business School    ESDES School of Business and Management   

There is no doubt that social media has improved both internal and external corporate communication, especially for multinational companies. Social media has, for example, enabled corporations to increase opportunities for…

Idea posted: January 2015

Institutions: NUS Business School   

Should companies allow employees to work from home, some or all of the time? After all, with the communication possibilities of the digital age — from submitting materials through email…

Idea posted: October 2014

Institutions: Tuck School of Business    Boston University Questrom School of Business   

How are organizational routines — routines in an organization that involve more than one individual — related to the effectiveness of an organizational design or redesign? Answering this question begins…

Idea posted: September 2014

Institutions: Cranfield University School of Management   

Professionals in an organization — technical experts in a service organization, for example — will acquire best practices, solutions, resources, ideas and other knowledge as they develop responses to the…

Idea posted: September 2014

Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business   

In a world of business in which cooperation is often the key to success, many companies overlook the damage that infighting, extreme competition or knowledge hoarding by employees can cause…

Idea posted: August 2014

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business   

The factors that bring people together into a collaborative venture are varied. One is proximity and shared goals: people within a department, for example, have more opportunities to work together…

Idea posted: August 2014

Institutions: Ivey Business School at Western University   

When in May 2013, software giant SAP announced that it would hire hundreds of people who were diagnosed with autism, the assumption among casual observers might have been that SAP…

Idea posted: June 2014

Institutions: University of Florida Warrington College of Business Administration    Michigan State University The Eli Broad College of Business    University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business   

In recent years, extensive management research has focused on the need for sufficient sleep in order to perform better in the workplace. It has been consistently highlighted as one of…

Idea posted: May 2014

Institutions: Henley Business School   

How would you describe the impact of your organization’s reputation on overall business performance? Trust may play a big part in building that reputation, but how closely are trust and…