Idea posted: June 2013
Institutions: Egon Zehnder International
Discussing her return to PwC as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in 2012, Carol Sawdye said she would be spending much of her first year on the job focused on “change…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #161Idea posted: June 2013
Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Formal risk management systems now provide the dominant logic for governing an uncertain world and are prevalent in public services as well as private firms. What happens when these systems…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #160Idea posted: June 2013
Institutions: IE Business School
The traditional, hierarchical structure of organizations is diminishing as we work our way through the 21st century. Business is fast-paced and unpredictable; we cannot rely on things the way we…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #159Idea posted: June 2013
Institutions: Kellogg School of Management
Exploring the relation between information that is presented in corporate accountability reports and future financial performance three professors from the Kellogg School of Management’s Accounting Information and Management Department focused…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #158Idea posted: June 2013
Institutions: Ivey Business School at Western University
The idea of character has been lost sight of. One reason could be that the educational system and organizations are completely competency focused, or perhaps because character seems an old-fashioned…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #157Idea posted: June 2013
Institutions: INSEAD
Only a small number of psychopaths become violent criminals. Others lead outwardly normal lives and appear integrated into society. Strongly attracted to money and power, these ‘psychopaths lite’ often seek…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #156Idea posted: June 2013
Institutions: Columbia Business School Harvard Business School Stanford Graduate School of Business
Professors Ilyana Kuziemko of Columbia Business School and Ryan Buell and Michael Norton of Harvard Business School, working with doctoral candidate Taly Reich of the Stanford Graduate School of Business,…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #155Idea posted: June 2013
Institutions: Columbia Business School The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Does bad weather reduce productivity within factories and other workplaces? This is the question that the latest research from Marcelo Olivares of the Columbia Business School and Gérard Cachon and…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #154Idea posted: June 2013
Institutions: Columbia Business School
In a typical negotiation process, one of the parties will make an opening or first offer, which is then met by the recipient of that first offer. Prior research has…
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