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Why Leaders Sabotage Their Own Teams
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Kellogg School of Management
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In most hierarchies, power is malleable, which means that it can change. A leader at the top can lose his or her power, and be replaced by subordinates who have,…
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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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How Early Work Experience Shapes Later Leadership Outlook
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management
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Employees just joining the workforce will have different experiences in their first jobs, depending on the economic situation of the firm in which they land. This economic situation makes a…
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Facial Cues: Can We Judge Who Looks Like a Leader?
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Carnegie Mellon University Warwick University Business School Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business
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A number of academic studies have shown that because many of us form impressions about potential leaders from their facial characteristics, certain facial characteristics (for example, a ‘competent’ look) can…
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Does Employee Satisfaction Improve Company Value? It Depends…
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania London Business School Warwick University Business School
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When the most important asset of a company is human capital, attracting and retaining high-quality, motivated employees is the key to sustainable competitive advantage. High employee satisfaction makes the company…
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Younger Generations Determined but Concerned about Leadership
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: Vlerick Business School
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As the younger generation of employees move into their first leadership positions, they will naturally be anxious, as any new leader would be, about the responsibilities, pressures, and risks that…
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The World Needs Mining, but Mining Must Change
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: Kellogg School of Management
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Mined materials are in many if not most of the products we buy — from the obvious such as jewellery to the not so-obvious, such as the number of mined…
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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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Harness Big Data Using Visualisation Software Tools
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: NUS Business School
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The amount of data we generate today boggles the mind. As much as 90% of all data in the world today was created in the past 2 years, writes Keith…
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