The Surprising Benefit of Long Queues for Customers and Business

Idea posted: October 2014

Institutions: Frankfurt School of Finance & Management    Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business    University of Chicago Booth School of Business   

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For most consumers, waiting in a long queue is a frustrating experience. There is nothing to be gained from standing in a slow line at the grocery store or waiting…

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What Your Company Can Learn from Supercompetitors

Idea posted: October 2014

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management   

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Traditionally, industry-leading companies used to be large conglomerates that gained their dominant competitive advantage through an accumulation of assets and positions, which gave them unbeatable economies of scale. Thanks to…

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How to Motivate Subsidiaries to Share Useful Know-How with Others in the Group

Idea posted: October 2014

Institutions: University of St. Gallen   

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It is not easy to motivate subsidiaries of multinational companies to create competence that can be useful to other subsidiaries, and for good reason. Developing competence, including know-how and technological…

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Succession Planning: Boards Need to Know Their Senior Managers

Idea posted: October 2014

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business    The Institute of Executive Development (IED)    The Conference Board   

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Succession planning is a vital issue for corporations. As CEOs leave, the smoother transitions occur when a successor or a short list of successors has been groomed and is prepared…

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Coaches Needed to Help CEOs and Senior Managers

Idea posted: September 2014

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business    Stanford Law School   

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Based on a survey of nearly 200 North American CEOs, board directors and senior executives, Stanford’s 2013 Executive Coaching Survey revealed that nearly 2/3 of  the CEOs were ‘going it…

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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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Why High-Status Companies that Attract the Best Fail to Keep Them

Idea posted: September 2014

Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania    McGill University   

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The best students from the best universities and graduate schools will be attracted to the most desirable companies to work for in their industries. At first glance, it would seem…

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What Boards Think of CEOs

Idea posted: September 2014

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business    Stanford Law School   

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CEOs tend to be strong in decision-making and the financial elements of their jobs, but weak when it comes to managing their people and developing talent, according to a survey…

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Mindfulness Leads to Better Decisions

Idea posted: September 2014

Institutions: Harvard Business School    Fordham University Graduate School of Business   

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There is a decision to be made. The decision makers know what they want to do, and take action. Reflecting on the action later, however, they realize that they did…

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