Investment Banking: Technology and the Decline of Trust

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford    University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce    International Monetary Fund    Ohio State University Moritz College Of Law   

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Investment banking was once regulated mainly by ‘reputational incentives’: bankers were motivated to act in the client’s best interests by concern for the bank’s good name. It was a system…

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Storytelling for Entrepreneurial Endeavour

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business    University of Alberta - Alberta School of Business   

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In a popular article published by Harvard Business Review in 1999, the authors proposed that those who use stories as part of their management and strategy technique tend to become…

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How Virtual Ways of Working Impact on Team Productivity

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: Northwestern University    University of Texas, Austin    Stanford University   

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The ‘lure of the virtual’ has led many organizations to believe that one day not too far away, we will be able to accomplish with computers what has historically only…

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Diversity in Teams: Tasks, Not Relationships Drive Performance

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: MIT Sloan School of Management    Oklahoma State University Spears School of Business    Columbia Business School    Ohio State University Fisher College of Business   

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Social category diversity — diversity of race, gender or political leanings, for example — has been shown to enhance creative thinking in groups, and leads to more effective decision-making that…

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How LEGO® Helps Strategic Thinking and Idea Generation

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School   

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In the 1940s, psychologist Jean Piaget suggested that children use their hands-on experiences of the world around them to build and develop their knowledge. This theory went on to shape…

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When Supply Chain Partners Move Up the Value Chain

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: Harvard Business School    University of Toronto Rotman School of Management   

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Outsourcing is no longer just an operational issue. As globalization takes hold and more companies shift more activities to suppliers in emerging economies, outsourcing is now a strategic concern. Slowly,…

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Changing Attitudes to Business Ethics: Insights from South Africa

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: University of Pretoria Gordon Institute of Business Science   

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Recent decades have seen increased focus on corporate governance and business ethics — and an increased number of ethics-based courses at business schools. While this is true of countries across…

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Mothers of Invention: Companies that ‘Spawn’ New Enterprises

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: EDHEC Business School    University of Zurich    HEC Paris   

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Entrepreneurial spawning — whereby an existing company gives birth to another company, founded by former employees — is prevalent in many new industries. (California’s Fairchild Semiconductor, for example, is ‘mother’…

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Organizational Energy: May the Force Be With You

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: Henley Business School   

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In many facets of life, collective energy affects the way things run, positively or negatively. Take schools, for example. They may go through periods of upheaval, in which results and…

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