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Foreign Acquisitions: The Path to Better Productivity at Home?
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: SKEMA Business School INSEAD
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Buying companies in other countries poses significant challenges, requiring close co-ordination and careful integration and creating what’s been referred to in management literature as the ‘liability of foreignness’. But the…
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Building Buy-In: The Value of Informal Relationships and Coalitions
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: Baylor University
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How to make your voice heard and be more influential in the workplace has always been a topic of interest for executives. Traditionally, it has been suggested that in order…
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Can Late-Night Smartphone Use Reduce Engagement and Productivity?
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: University of Florida Warrington College of Business Administration Michigan State University The Eli Broad College of Business University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business
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In recent years, extensive management research has focused on the need for sufficient sleep in order to perform better in the workplace. It has been consistently highlighted as one of…
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Can Emotional Intelligence Shape a Team’s Collective Performance?
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: Carnegie Mellon University University of California, Riverside Seoul National University
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Research in recent years has consistently shown emotional intelligence (EI) to be a key determinant of performance for leaders and employees. Broadly defined as a set of competencies for identifying,…
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How Competition for Customers Causes Unethical Behaviour
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: University of Southern California Marshall School of Business Washington University Olin Business School UCLA Anderson School of Management Harvard Business School
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Competition has traditionally received much praise, particularly from economists who point to its contributions in lowering market prices and also improving the quality of goods and services. However, recent research…
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How to Limit Ambiguity of Responsibility and Learn from Failure
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School Harvard Business School
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The nature and dynamics of today’s organizations are such that failures are almost inevitable; the failure of a new product initiative or the failure of an existing strategy to meet…
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Creating Shared Value Using Inter-Organizational Networks
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)
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Creating positive societal and environmental impact whilst retaining competitiveness has become an increasingly popular concept for companies in recent years—also known as ‘creating shared value.’ A term first coined by…
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How Reference Points Motivate Us
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: University of Southern California Marshall School of Business University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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The use of reference points — for example, a monthly sales quota of 20 sales — is at the heart of reference-dependent behavioural economic theories, the most influential being “prospect…
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Back to Leadership Basics: Make Time for Your Team
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: London Business School
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It sounds so obvious. It is obvious. But far too few managers actually do it. We are talking about the most basic of leadership tasks – spending as much time…
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