Idea posted: April 2013

Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

From the Atari arcade games made popular in the 1970s-80s, to Angry Birds on iPhones across the world, video games have grown significantly in popularity and sophistication over the past…

Idea posted: April 2013

Institutions: Henley Business School   

In today’s increasingly competitive and fast-changing global marketplace, businesses must seek to develop more frequent and higher quality innovations. At the same time, customers, employees and other stakeholders are demanding…

Idea posted: April 2013

Institutions: London Business School    University College London   

There is a quote from Mahatma Gandhi that should be in the lexicon of every aspiring business: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were…

Idea posted: April 2013

Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania   

Ethan Mollick, the Edward B. and Shirley R. Shils Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has conducted extensive research on how user communities…

Idea posted: April 2013

Institutions: Thunderbird School of Global Management   

"One-half of all employees reported being on the receiving end of rudeness at least once a week — compared to only one-quarter 1998." Christine Pearson of Thunderbird and Christine Porath…

Idea posted: April 2013

Institutions: University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business   

Executives cannot afford to ignore the dangers posed by acting overconfidently. Numerous examples in recent history can attest to this, from the inflation of the dot-com bubble in the late…

Idea posted: April 2013

Institutions: INSEAD   

For big corporations, regardless of industry, making disruptive changes is not a question of money: many have substantial budgets. It is a question of mind set and how you position…

Idea posted: April 2013

Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business   

Executives and managers recognize today that discrimination has no place in the workplace. No employee should be required to work in an environment of abuse and harassment — including in…

Idea posted: April 2013

Institutions: Columbia Business School   

Rising unemployment, household incomes taking a dip, bankruptcies becoming widespread — these are just some of the hallmarks of an economic recession. We all remember these things from not too…