Idea posted: March 2015

Institutions: ESMT European School of Management and Technology    Tongji University   

Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC), a company that specialized in the large-scale cranes used to load containers onto ships, burst on the heavy machinery landscape in 1992. At that time,…

Idea posted: March 2015

Institutions: Duke University   

Most leaders possess typical leadership qualities such as the ability to inspire and persuade, a grand vision, and a controlled fearlessness when taking risks. There is, however, a darker side…

Idea posted: March 2015

Institutions: University of St. Gallen   

Public sector organizations are multirational organizations. They do not fall under a single rationality archetype — for example, they are not uniquely political organizations or economic organizations or legal organizations,…

Idea posted: February 2015

Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

Three generations of Indians are currently employed in India’s workplaces. The ‘partition generation’ (born 1944-1963, and roughly equivalent to the baby boomers) were born during times of insecurity and instability.…

Idea posted: February 2015

Institutions: Stockholm School of Economics   

Tall men have a greater chance of becoming leaders. As unfair as this may seem, and despite the obvious exceptions from Napoleon to CEO superstar Jack Welch, decades of research…

Idea posted: February 2015

Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business    Rady School of Management   

Research in academic laboratory settings — that is, within controlled experiments with voluntary participants — has shown that individuals with deeper voices are perceived as having more leadership capabilities. Different…

Idea posted: February 2015

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management   

In most hierarchies, power is malleable, which means that it can change. A leader at the top can lose his or her power, and be replaced by subordinates who have,…

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: November 2014

Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School   

Does hiring compensation consultants result in higher pay for CEOs? Until recently, academic studies exploring this question have yielded no evidence that CEOs use compensation consultants to justify higher pay.…