Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: IE Business School    IULM    New York University Stern School of Business   

The way companies inform and report on their CSR programs has evolved in recent years, with online channels either complementing or supplanting more traditional offline methods of communication. Blogs, social…

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business    University of California, Riverside   

The concept of negotiation as a ‘battle of the sexes’ is not new; in fact, in the 1990s, MBA students on a negotiation course were asked who they thought had…

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management    Wilfrid Laurier University    University of Amsterdam   

Studies have shown that anger can be an effective management technique to spur a response from employees, and equally effective in negotiations to demonstrate toughness, ambitious goals, and resistance to…

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management    Wilfrid Laurier University    Hong Kong Polytechnic University    University of Texas, San Antonio   

More than just an assigned period for eating, a lunch break is an opportunity for employees to engage in various types of activities, from socializing with friends and colleagues to…

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business   

There are long been various types of communities bringing together like-minded product enthusiasts — from Corvette or 2CV car clubs to Tupperware party groups to the techies dedicated to Java…

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management   

Susan Perkins, a professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and a visiting professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, sought to empirically measure the role of prior international…

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: Henley Business School   

Social media encompasses the activities and behaviours of communities of people who gather online to share knowledge and opinions. Social media, or otherwise ‘user-generated communication’, now represents a prevalent source…

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

"47 per cent say their current high-potential talent pool does not meet their anticipated needs." The term ‘high-potential’ is often found in business literature referring to employees.  What exactly differentiates one from…

Idea posted: September 2013

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

In Aristotle’s great work the Nicomachean Ethics, happiness (eudaimonia) is not a feeling so much as a state — and a state with a distinctly moral dimension. Synonymous with ‘living…