Idea posted: August 2015

Institutions: University of Amsterdam    Frankfurt School of Finance & Management   

Theoretically, deferred compensation should keep executives from leaving the firm. One way to defer compensation is through unvested equity pay. After four or five years, the pay is vested. This…

Idea posted: July 2015

Institutions: Copenhagen Business School    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Munich School of Management    University of St. Gallen    University of Geneva   

To study the talent management processes of an organization, a team of researchers focused on the managerial skills required for management promotion. Identification of those skills is the key element…

Idea posted: July 2015

Institutions: Warwick University Business School    Saïd Business School, University of Oxford   

CEOs are responsible for knowing what is going on in their companies. No matter how large, complex or global the organization, CEOs do not have the luxury of pleading ignorance;…

Idea posted: July 2015

Institutions: Bocconi University Department of Management & Technology    Singapore Management University    University of Akron   

In recent years, humility has become increasingly accepted as a central feature of great leadership. Bestselling business books such as Good to Great, which considered humility as one of the…

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: Indian School of Business   

Both agency theory and stewardship theory help explain organizational dynamics, although starting from very different assumptions. Agency theory describes the relationship between the shareholders (called ‘principals’) and the company’s managers…

Idea posted: April 2015

Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business    Kellogg School of Management    Georgetown University McDonough School of Business   

More and more board of directors have the CEO as the only insider on the board. At first glance, this movement toward near unanimous outside directors would seem to meet…

Idea posted: April 2015

Institutions: City University of Hong Kong    University of Toronto Rotman School of Management    Kellogg School of Management   

An investigation into the problems of the 1973 Ford Pinto, a car susceptible to catastrophic explosions when rear-ended, revealed that Ford’s engineers had calculated that the company could save $11…

Idea posted: March 2015

Institutions: Claremont Graduate University Drucker School of Management   

With the dominant, almost overwhelming impact that social media has on just about any function of a business, it’s easy to forget that social media is barely a decade old.…