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: January 2015

Institutions: University of Utah David Eccles School of Business    Purdue University Krannert School of Management    University of Cambridge Judge Business School   

Previous studies have explored the link between CEO pay and future business performance with mixed results. In some cases, higher CEO pay is linked to better results; other studies show…

Idea posted: September 2014

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business    Stanford Law School   

CEOs tend to be strong in decision-making and the financial elements of their jobs, but weak when it comes to managing their people and developing talent, according to a survey…

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: July 2014

Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania   

Why do so many people make New Year’s resolutions? Because the New Year is the most obvious and universal of temporal landmarks — the dates or periods in time that…

Idea posted: June 2014

Institutions: HEC Montréal    Queens University School of Business   

Technology that is supposed to make us more productive only seems to have complicated our task. We may be in an important meeting but know that whoever just sent an…

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: June 2014

Institutions: Carnegie Mellon University    University of California, Riverside    Seoul National University   

Research in recent years has consistently shown emotional intelligence (EI) to be a key determinant of performance for leaders and employees. Broadly defined as a set of competencies for identifying,…

Idea posted: June 2014

Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business    University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School    Harvard Business School   

The nature and dynamics of today’s organizations are such that failures are almost inevitable; the failure of a new product initiative or the failure of an existing strategy to meet…