Idea posted: August 2016

Institutions: University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business    University of Chicago Booth School of Business   

Logically, the percentage of work that each team member contributes to a team project cannot add up to more than 100%. For example, if both authors of an academic paper…

Idea posted: July 2016

Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University    University of Piraeus    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam    Athens University of Economics and Business   

Companies have both short-term and long-term responsibilities: they must be successful in the present while preparing for the future. While many companies believe they are managing these two priorities effectively,…

Idea posted: January 2016

Institutions: Tel Aviv University    University of Michigan Ross School of Business   

Intuitively, respectful relationships and creativity are assets of a successful company. Respectful relationships lead to more effective collaboration, while creativity leads to new, competitive ideas. Business leaders might not realize,…

Idea posted: October 2015

Institutions: DePaul University Driehaus College of Business    Queens University School of Business    Ball State University Miller College of Business   

Employee victimization continues to be a problem in the workplace. New research reveals how through their job performance victims themselves may be unwittingly motivating their tormentors. In any group, there…

Idea posted: October 2015

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine   

Collaboration, either formal or discretionary (informally approaching others for guidance, information or assistance), is considered a virtue in today’s workplace. The advantages of collaboration are many, ranging from creativity and…

Idea posted: June 2015

Institutions: University of St. Gallen    Technical University of Berlin    University of Konstanz    University of Potsdam    Renmin University of China School of Business   

As team members work on various (team) tasks and project, conflicts can arise over issues such as, for example, how the work should be done, or the best way to achieve…

Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: Bocconi University Department of Management & Technology    Singapore Management University    London Business School    SDA Bocconi School of Management   

Every organization has finite resources, starting with compensation, budgets and expense accounts, as well as high quality assignments, accounts or customers and even office space. The people who control the…

Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: NUS Business School    Georgia Institute of Technology Scheller College of Business    Rady School of Management   

Many project managers are now working with contract or distant employees who have some autonomy in how they plan out the assignment. These projects required highly skilled workers but often…

Idea posted: April 2015

Institutions: Cornell University    University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business    Washington University Olin Business School    Vanderbilt University   

Conventional wisdom has it that diversity helps creativity, in that people in homogenous groups are similar to one another with similar ideas and therefore less divergent thinking occurs. Also most…