Corporate Governance from the Bottom Up

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: Toulouse School of Economics    Princeton University    HEC Paris   

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Academics and practitioners have long known that without tight monitoring, CEOs of large public companies may take actions that are against the interests of their shareholders. The consensus has been…

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Search Engine Ranking: Consumer Behaviour and Revenue

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: New York University Stern School of Business    Carnegie Mellon University   

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Researchers from New York University’s Stern School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University studied the effects of product rankings in three areas: the direct impact of rankings on consumer behaviour…

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Crowdsourcing New Product Ideas Over Time

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

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Crowdsourcing is an expression that describes the act of taking a task once performed by an internal employee or team, and outsourcing it to a large, undefined group of people…

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Resistance to Change: Overcoming Multilevel Cynicism

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management    University of Buffalo    George Mason University   

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Cynicism to change (CTC) is often studied at the individual level — how employees react to change. Indeed, employee CTC will impact whether or not change can be successfully implemented…

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Changing Corporate Learning: 5 Ways to Make it Work

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: IMD   

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In his 2013 book titled The Business of Corporate Learning, Shlomo Ben-Hur writes that over the past 10 years, research has repeatedly shown that the proportion of business leaders who…

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Servitization: Implications for Sales and Marketing

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: Cranfield University School of Management   

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There has been a growing trend in recent years for suppliers to differentiate their products through services, rather than solely through products. Consider the case of Apple, whose market share…

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Knowledge Sharing Networks Between Developing and Developed Countries

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: Rutgers University    University of Pretoria Gordon Institute of Business Science   

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The migration of nationals from less-developed countries, once thought of as ‘brain drain’, has been ‘re-framed’. A new concept, ‘brain circulation’, has taken root — and with it the idea…

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Developing Network Perspective: Social Networks and Leadership

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

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Though formal hierarchies continue to be an integral part of organizational structures, in recent years individuals have been required to look beyond these towards the informal and invisible structures supporting…

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Collectivism and Consumers at the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’ in South Africa

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: University of Pretoria Gordon Institute of Business Science    University of New Mexico Anderson School of Management   

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"Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu" – A person is a person through other persons. (from the humanist African philosophy Ubuntu) The ‘bottom of the pyramid’ (BoP), the world’s poorest socio-economic group, as…

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