Beware of Over-Optimistic Investors Skewing High-Risk Stock Prices

Idea posted: September 2015

Institutions: Warwick University Business School    UCLA Anderson School of Management    Old Dominion University   

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In finance, a capital asset's sensitivity to risk is often represented by the quantity beta (β), and investment opportunities that have a high risk profile are known as ‘high beta’…

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How Supervisors and Co-Workers Stop Anxiety from Hurting Performance

Idea posted: August 2015

Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management    Hong Kong Polytechnic University   

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Workplace anxiety and stress causes work performance to suffer. Previous research shows that performance suffers because of what academics call ‘cognitive interference’: when employees are stressed, they cannot focus on…

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CFO Survey: Most Hit by Hackers Otherwise Optimistic

Idea posted: July 2015

Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business   

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Highlighting the continuing challenge of information systems security, more than 80% of companies around the world have been hacked by cyber-criminals, including more than 80% of companies in the U.S.,…

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Neurobiological Clues to Advertising Effectiveness

Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: University of Southern California Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences    Fielding Graduate University    Claremont Graduate University   

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The AIDA model of advertising identifies Attention, Interest, Desire and Action as key to the effectiveness of an advert. In order to measure the physiology behind advertising effectiveness, a research…

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Corporate Governance: The Power of Outside Directors on CEO-Only Boards

Idea posted: April 2015

Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business    Kellogg School of Management    Georgetown University McDonough School of Business   

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More and more board of directors have the CEO as the only insider on the board. At first glance, this movement toward near unanimous outside directors would seem to meet…

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Firms Are Not Adapting to the Millennial Workforce

Idea posted: February 2015

Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business   

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In addition to economic and diversity issues, the Duke University/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey for the fourth quarter of 2014 focused on the issue of millennials in the workplace.…

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Does Work/Life Balance Help or Hurt Productivity?

Idea posted: January 2015

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Munich School of Management    London School of Economics   

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Work-life balance issues bring out the optimist in some, the pessimist in others. For pessimists, the work-life balance concerns of employees will be undermined when a firm faces increased competition…

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Six Imperatives for Companies to Embrace Cloud Computing

Idea posted: December 2014

Institutions: MIT Sloan School of Management    Pepperdine University Graziadio School of Business and Management   

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Since 2005, the business units of California-based health care company Allergan has used cloud computing for a wide range of functions, from field sales effectiveness and travel and expense processing…

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Launch Intentional Communities of Practice in Global Companies

Idea posted: September 2014

Institutions: Cranfield University School of Management   

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Professionals in an organization — technical experts in a service organization, for example — will acquire best practices, solutions, resources, ideas and other knowledge as they develop responses to the…

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