Ideas
Social Status, Performance and Managing Stress
Idea posted: September 2013
Institutions: Columbia Business School University of California, San Francisco
Social status relates to the prestige, esteem and respect that managers and employees receive from their colleagues, subordinates and superiors. While in society, social status can be attained through wealth…
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Calling in the Consultants: Risks and Rewards
Idea posted: September 2013
Institutions: Vlerick Business School
Troubled manufacturing company the KSV is at crisis point. Its Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program has failed to deliver the expected benefits, and two of its biggest customers, Avobus…
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All-consuming: Brand Management in the Digital Age
Idea posted: September 2013
Institutions: ESADE
The field of brand management is undergoing a metamorphosis as the pace of change in our world increases. The brand-building process we used to take for granted, particularly in terms…
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The Surprising Reality of the Leadership of Change
Idea posted: September 2013
Institutions: Vlerick Business School
The KSV plastics company is in trouble. A myopic cost control program has created supply chain and production problems and made it difficult to deliver orders on time and…
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When Allowing Decision Latitude Can Backfire
Idea posted: September 2013
Institutions: Columbia Business School Harvard Business School
Most leaders now recognize (at least theoretically if not always in practice) the ineffectiveness of the old school top-down, command-and-control leadership style. The knowledge worker of the information age is…
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Leaders Less Stressed than Followers Due to a Sense of Control
Idea posted: September 2013
Institutions: Harvard Business School Rady School of Management Stanford Graduate School of Business
In a classic Harvard Business Review article published in 1981, Harry Levinson said “managing others… creates unending stress… Today’s managers face increasing time pressures with little respite.” Levinson’s view is…
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How to Communicate CSR Online to Stakeholders
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…
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Ethical Lapses in Negotiations – A Male Tendency
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…
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Using Anger in Negotiations – Real and Fake
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…
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