Idea posted: July 2014

Institutions: University of Virginia Darden Business School   

Innovation through collaborative teams can succeed or fail in large part based on resources dedicated to the venture. While many factors may ultimately impact success or failure, all else being…

Idea posted: February 2013

Institutions: Harvard Business School    The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania    University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

A research study set out to examine how effective extraverted leadership actually is on group performance, and what characteristics on the part of employees also play a role in this.…

Idea posted: October 2013

Institutions: Harvard Kennedy School    Harvard Business School    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   

Seasonal depression is well-known and has traditionally been easy to recognize: difficulty concentrating, low levels of energy, etc. — all related to bleak winter weather conditions. So naturally, it follows…

Idea posted: March 2016

Institutions: LUISS Guido Carli    Nova School of Business and Economics    University of Technology Sydney   

Despite its best intentions, a company may have structures and processes in place that allows it to construct its own misfortune. This is organizational ‘zemblanity’, a term coined by writer…

Idea posted: May 2023

Institutions: Case Western Reserve University   

A wide-ranging overview of related psychological studies reveals that, without exception, bad has a greater impact than good, no matter the context. Here is some of the evidence presented by…

Idea posted: October 2015

Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University    Hanken School of Economics    Aalto University School of Business    EMLYON Business School   

To make decisions, leaders must understand, to use the vernacular, ‘what is happening’. They must make sense of the events and situations that impact their areas of responsibility; this sense-making…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: Vlerick Business School    Lucerne Business School   

Once understood as something exceptional, change is increasingly seen as part of everyday working life. (The notion of the organization, somewhat paradoxically, now incorporates both change and stability.) Change management…

Idea posted: June 2014

Institutions: London Business School   

It sounds so obvious. It is obvious. But far too few managers actually do it. We are talking about the most basic of leadership tasks – spending as much time…

Idea posted: August 2019

Institutions: University of Calabria    University of Gloucestershire    Örebro University    Tampere University of Technology   

Business-to-business (B2B) companies differ from business-to-consumer (B2C) companies in many ways. B2B company products are often more complex and require greater lead times to produce, there are fewer customers, and…