Ideas
Why Increasing Demand Is Not Always the Answer to New Competition
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…
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Why Human‑Centric Skills Are the Real Competitive Advantage in an AI Economy
Idea posted: April 2026
Institutions: Centre for the New Economy and Society; World Economic Forum
A World Economic Forum White Paper emphasises that competitiveness in the new economy relies heavily on investment in people; technological investment alone will not deliver resilience or productivity gains. While…
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Why Human Thought Emerged from Shared Intentionality and Cooperation
Idea posted: May 2022
Institutions: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
In A Natural History of Human Thinking, Michael Tomasello proposes that what makes human thinking unique is not simply culture or language, but the evolution of shared intentionality, the ability…
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Why High-Status Companies that Attract the Best Fail to Keep Them
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…
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Why Great New Products Fail
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…
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Why Good Ideas Don’t See the Light of Day
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…
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Why Good Bosses Tune Into Their People
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…
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Why Goliaths and Davids Are Poor Network Partners
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…
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Why Gender Differences in Shopping Styles Are Stronger than National Differences
Idea posted: July 2019
Institutions:
Most people will agree – and academic research supports them – that men and women have different shopping styles. Women are more likely than men to see shopping as a…
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