Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: Ashridge Executive Education, Hult International Business School   

Trans-ocean sailing fits the organizational team/leadership metaphor well, as in order to achieve the basic goal of getting from A to B, the team needs to function effectively in handling…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: University of Pretoria Gordon Institute of Business Science   

Africa’s growth and development prospects over the past decade have attracted the attention of investors, development agencies and governments across the world. ‘Traditional partners’ — i.e. the Americans and the…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: Toulouse School of Economics    Princeton University    HEC Paris   

Academics and practitioners have long known that without tight monitoring, CEOs of large public companies may take actions that are against the interests of their shareholders. The consensus has been…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: New York University Stern School of Business    Carnegie Mellon University   

Researchers from New York University’s Stern School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University studied the effects of product rankings in three areas: the direct impact of rankings on consumer behaviour…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

Crowdsourcing is an expression that describes the act of taking a task once performed by an internal employee or team, and outsourcing it to a large, undefined group of people…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management    University of Buffalo    George Mason University   

Cynicism to change (CTC) is often studied at the individual level — how employees react to change. Indeed, employee CTC will impact whether or not change can be successfully implemented…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: IMD   

In his 2013 book titled The Business of Corporate Learning, Shlomo Ben-Hur writes that over the past 10 years, research has repeatedly shown that the proportion of business leaders who…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: Cranfield University School of Management   

There has been a growing trend in recent years for suppliers to differentiate their products through services, rather than solely through products. Consider the case of Apple, whose market share…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: Rutgers University    University of Pretoria Gordon Institute of Business Science   

The migration of nationals from less-developed countries, once thought of as ‘brain drain’, has been ‘re-framed’. A new concept, ‘brain circulation’, has taken root — and with it the idea…