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The Speed of the Ascent: Which Leaders Get the Top Jobs?
Idea posted: March 2014
Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania IE Business School
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The profile of leaders has changed over the decades, with a significant shift away from the notion of lifetime employment. The employee of the mid-twentieth century who climbed the ladder…
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Justice, Fairness and Employee Engagement
Idea posted: March 2014
Institutions: China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) University of Macau City University of Hong Kong
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Organizational justice has become a major focus of management research in recent years, due to its connection with numerous employee outcomes; satisfaction, commitment, trust and reduced levels of turnover have…
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Choosing a Venture Capitalist: The Ethical Dimension
Idea posted: March 2014
Institutions: Babson College Baylor University Hankamer School of Business Vlerick Business School
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Entrepreneurs sometimes have several offers from venture capitalists ‘on the table’ and will often spend a significant amount of time evaluating potential financiers, but the factors that influence their ‘willingness…
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Rapid Response Teams: Strategic Renewal for Organizations
Idea posted: March 2014
Institutions: Change Logic LLC. Harvard Business School Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Strategic renewal is not an easy process to begin, fund, or lead, because it entails making changes before disruption occurs. The problem for many businesses, stretched as they are by…
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How to Keep Clients When a Linchpin Leaves
Idea posted: March 2014
Institutions: INSEAD
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Strong relationships and social ties between clients and individual executives can be something of a double-edged sword in business. There is always the danger of client defection when the ‘linchpin’…
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Innovation Partnerships-Loosely or Tightly Coupled?
Idea posted: February 2014
Institutions: IESE Business School INSEAD Northeastern University DAmore-McKim School of Business
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Increased emphasis on continual innovation — and increased awareness that it demands knowledge beyond the confines of a single organization — means research partnerships have become a more common and…
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Optimal Marketing Claims: The Power of Three
Idea posted: February 2014
Institutions: Georgetown University UCLA Anderson School of Management
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What makes a message persuasive? Marketing departments everywhere are constantly looking for the answer to this question and much research has been conducted on this subject; previous research has shown…
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How Showing Emotions Builds Individual and Team Resilience
Idea posted: February 2014
Institutions: Case Western Reserve University Boston University Questrom School of Business Tel Aviv University University of Michigan Ross School of Business
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Virtuous organizations are organizations that create an environment in which everyone works for the good of all: employees, customers and the community. There will be challenges and setbacks, however, and…
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Retaining Women in the Workplace
Idea posted: February 2014
Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
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According to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics, the participation rate for women in the labour force was down from 60.3% in 2000, to 57.6% in 2012. This was despite…
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