Idea posted: July 2013

Institutions: Harvard Business School    Stanford Graduate School of Business   

‘Employee happiness’ has been getting a lot of attention in recent years. The evidence is there to show that it is directly-related to business performance; your happy employees are almost…

Idea posted: July 2022

Institutions: Indiana University    Henley Business School    University of Reading   

Where should companies source the knowledge and new ideas that will keep them at the forefront of innovation? The answer, according to an extensive study of 18,000 UK firms, depends…

Idea posted: March 2014

Institutions: China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)   

Being able to make the right decisions at the right time is a crucial part of leadership. Too often, however, lack of a proactive attitude gets in the way, causing…

Idea posted: February 2013

Institutions: HEC Paris   

Private equity investment, which has grown exponentially in Europe in the past decade, is more than a source of financing for enterprises, its presence in the capital of a company…

Idea posted: March 2014

Institutions: Washington University Olin Business School    University of Toronto Rotman School of Management   

Consumers often have a choice between products that are convenient or easy- to-use and products that offer greater functionality but are less convenient. When making a purchase that involves a longer time…

Idea posted: November 2014

Institutions: Washington University Olin Business School    University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce    Indian School of Business   

Before going to a store, consumers have an expectation in their minds about how much the product they want to buy will cost at that store, and at other stores.…

Idea posted: January 2018

Institutions: Harvard Business School    Columbia Business School   

Marketing luxury products requires connecting with consumers’ often emotion-driven desires, aspirations, and/or fantasies. However, many consumers cannot put aside their ‘rational’ mindset, and as a result feel guilty when purchasing…

Idea posted: November 2013

Institutions: NUS Business School    Singapore Management University    INSEAD   

Social exclusion has been described as one of the most severe punishments people can mete out to each other. A 2007 report by the UK’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and…

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…