Idea posted: April 2014

Institutions: IESE Business School    University of St. Gallen    École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)    Salus Partners   

According to an article published in IESE Insight, the conventional approach of investing in stocks and bonds may help to preserve capital, but is not suitable for wealth creation; investment…

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford    University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce    International Monetary Fund    Ohio State University Moritz College Of Law   

Investment banking was once regulated mainly by ‘reputational incentives’: bankers were motivated to act in the client’s best interests by concern for the bank’s good name. It was a system…

Idea posted: July 2018

Institutions: Simon Fraser University, Beedie School of Business    China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)   

For companies looking to expand internationally, business networks can play a key role in identifying and implementing foreign market opportunities. Finding the right distribution or manufacturing partner or identifying an…

Idea posted: June 2017

Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business   

Research has shown that creativity and innovation come from combining seemingly unrelated or irrelevant knowledge. You can create the context for combining unrelated knowledge by bringing together people with diverse…

Idea posted: December 2013

Institutions: Maastricht School of Management    Delft University of Technology   

Buying integrated services is now the dominant ‘modus operandi’ for clients in IT outsourcing arrangements. But relatively little is known about how integrated services are co-ordinated and implemented by providers.…

Idea posted: November 2016

Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management    Institute for Management & Innovation at the University of Toronto Mississauga   

All of us belong to certain social groups in society. Our ‘social identities’ are based on these groups, which can involve gender, nationality, profession, heritage, political affiliation, hobby or family…

Idea posted: July 2013

Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University   

The banking crisis and scandals involving companies such as Enron, Worldcom, Tyco and, more recently, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, have made the need to understand moral behaviour in organizations more…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

The global growth of a company depends on its developing effective leaders. Questions, such as where and how are the most important ‘lessons of leadership’ learned, and what are those…

Idea posted: May 2021

Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School    LUMS Suleman Dawood School of Business   

The theory of evolution argues that survival depends on adaptation to the environment. Biological, psychological and behavioural characteristics in living things evolve or emerge in an ongoing battle to survive…