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Gender-Diverse Teams Are More Innovative and Impactful
Idea posted: April 2023
Institutions: University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business New York University Michigan State University The Eli Broad College of Business Northwestern University
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An analysis of 6.6 million papers related to the medical sciences published between 2000 and 2021 showed that the proportion of gender-diverse teams involved in medical research is growing steadily…
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The Listening Paradox: Why Listening Is Often Difficult
Idea posted: March 2023
Institutions: Simon Fraser University, Beedie School of Business University College London
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How does one listen well? The answer—as revealed in an exhaustive review of the listening research published between 2000 and 2021—is often built on the speaker’s perception. For example, some…
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When Leaders Bring Previous Tight Cultures to Their New Groups
Idea posted: March 2023
Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School Institute for Management & Innovation at the University of Toronto Mississauga
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The importance of a group’s culture cannot be overstated: generally, the group’s culture defines how members of a group are expected to think, feel, and behave. Because culture is typically…
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The Risk of Ignoring the Lesser Risk in Projects
Idea posted: February 2023
Institutions: NYU Stern School of Business Tuck School of Business
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Business projects, opportunities, or endeavours typically involve conjunctive risk—that is, the endeavour will succeed only if multiple, uncertain events occur. If just one of these required events fail to occur,…
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Knowledge Diversity through Social Networks Enhance Creativity in Tight Cultures
Idea posted: February 2023
Institutions: IÉSEG School of Management Bocconi University Department of Management & Technology
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Knowledge acquired from contacts in the social networks of employees can influence and impact their creativity—contributing, for example, insights, perspectives, and supporting material to help them generate innovative ideas for…
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The Impact of Mid-life Crisis at Work
Idea posted: February 2023
Institutions: University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business Warwick University Business School
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Often treated as a joke or as a facetious explanation for unexpected behavior, the mid-life crisis is in fact real, according to a detailed report from a global team of…
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Measuring the Impact of Your Leadership Development Program
Idea posted: February 2023
Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)
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Building on internal and external research, the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) has developed a framework that not only measures the impact of leadership development programs but also reveals the…
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How to Turn Foreignness into a Competitive Advantage
Idea posted: January 2023
Institutions: University of Reading St. John’s University
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Foreign companies can be at a disadvantage when competing against domestic companies strengthened by informal networks developed over years and even lifetimes. In Korea, for example, two types of informal…
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Leadership Humour Not Always Appreciated in Different Cultures
Idea posted: January 2023
Institutions: RMIT School of Management St. John’s University National Taiwan University
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Past studies have demonstrated the power of humor in strengthening relationships between leaders and followers. In the early stages of these relationships, the power position of leaders requires them be…
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