Idea posted: July 2013

Institutions: Maastricht School of Management   

The greying of the post-war baby boom generation and increasing life expectancy are threatening the financial sustainability of pensions systems in many industrialized countries. European governments are responding by raising…

Idea posted: June 2013

Institutions: Melbourne Business School-Mt Eliza Executive Education   

In 2010, the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) changed its reporting requirements, calling for listed companies to detail their progress against voluntary gender diversity targets. This move on the part of…

Idea posted: June 2013

Institutions: ESADE   

Responsible leadership is a concept that can help link corporate social responsibility (CSR) and performance to actions on the part of policy makers and leaders. In a world where public…

Idea posted: June 2013

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business    Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business    University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business   

Through their research, the authors set out to examine the effects that leaders at different levels in an organization have on each other. To do so, they investigated the relation…

Idea posted: May 2013

Institutions: Tuck School of Business   

Building on the latest research on leadership, as well as scores of interviews with CEOs and other leaders, Professor of Strategy and Leadership Sydney Finkelstein of Dartmouth’s Tuck School of…

Idea posted: April 2013

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business    University of Utah David Eccles School of Business   

CEOs are often put under the spotlight, with everything from how they spend their time to their leadership style closely scrutinized. But what about managers and supervisors lower down in…

Idea posted: February 2013

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business   

Leaders can have a ripple effect through their company, particularly those in the C-suite; their actions reverberate throughout the organization, with followers sometimes even mimicking them. The CEO of BAE…

Idea posted: February 2013

Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

Is organizational politics good or bad, or does it even exist? This seems to be a debated topic, with many executives (especially women) finding office politics difficult to embrace.  Female…

Idea posted: February 2013

Institutions: London School of Economics    European University Institute    Columbia Business School    Harvard Business School   

In this idea, faculty from the London School of Economics, the European University Institute, Columbia Business School and Harvard Business School set out to uncover the mystery of what CEOs…