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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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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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