How to Align Conflicting Corporate Strategies to Functions

Idea posted: November 2020

Institutions: Oregon State University College of Business    The University of Auckland Business School    PwC New Zealand   

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Corporate strategy rarely offers a clear and unified directive for the company’s functions and business units. Instead, companies often have competing sets of corporate strategies. In a study based on…

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What Makes a Good Corporate Strategic Thinker?

Idea posted: November 2020

Institutions: University of Rijeka    George Washington University   

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While businesspeople have a sense of what strategic thinking entails, defining this familiar concept in specific terms is a challenge. We know that strategic thinking and operational thinking are different,…

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Influences on Entrepreneurial Training for Women

Idea posted: November 2020

Institutions: University of Delaware Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics    Thunderbird School of Global Management    Arizona State University    University of Houston-Clear Lake   

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Interest in the need to develop training programs for women entrepreneurs is growing, especially in developing countries where the potential influence of women entrepreneurs is significant. In these countries, woman…

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Growth Mindset, Empathy and Training for Entrepreneurial Mentoring

Idea posted: November 2020

Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business    INSEAD    Johns Hopkins University    Arizona State University W. P. Carey School of Business    Entrepreneur Futures Network   

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Mentors with extensive entrepreneurial experience can make a significant contribution to the success of new or less experienced entrepreneurs facing the inevitable setbacks of early stage ventures. Many entrepreneurial mentoring…

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Mentoring Programs for Women to Overcome Workplace Challenges

Idea posted: September 2020

Institutions: University of Wolverhampton   

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Although mentoring is often cited as one of the paths for women to break down the barriers that hamper promotion opportunities and career success, what exactly can women learn through…

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Building and Maintaining Mentoring Relationships

Idea posted: September 2020

Institutions: University of Texas, Austin   

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Scratch the surface of any leader’s great career and you will find the influence of one or more mentors who fully invested themselves in the leader’s development and advancement. The…

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5 Practices to Avoid Knowledge Differences in Cross-functional Teams

Idea posted: September 2020

Institutions: University of Southern California Marshall School of Business    McGill University   

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Teamwork is never easy, and cross-functional teamwork is especially challenging given the starkly different experiences, knowledge and perspectives that team members bring to the team. To span the divisions, participants…

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Male Subordinate Bias Against Female Bosses: The Evidence from Schools

Idea posted: September 2020

Institutions: University of Virginia Darden Business School    Kellogg School of Management   

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The dearth of female leaders in industry, despite the stated intentions of most companies and organizations to encourage diversity and promote women, is well documented. Past studies in this field…

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Ships in the Night: How to Unite Warring Executives

Idea posted: September 2020

Institutions: INSEAD   

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Many executives struggle to accomplish their mandate as executives: aligning the people from top to bottom in the organization behind the goals and actions that ensure the company’s success. The…

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