Leaders’ Charisma, Team Performance and Organizational Change

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: University of Heidelberg    Goethe University Frankfurt    University of Cambridge Judge Business School    Arizona State University   

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‘Charismatic leadership’ has received much attention from researchers over the past few decades, lending support to theories that it is capable of fostering higher levels of employee and team performance…

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Women’s Attitudes to Affirmative Action Programs for Leadership

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: Insper   

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Affirmative action programs (also known as ‘positive discrimination’) are designed to ensure equal employment opportunities in organizations, taking into account factors such as race, religion, gender, etc. They can vary…

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Leading Dynamic Teams: Alignment, Capability, Autonomy

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: Ashridge Executive Education, Hult International Business School   

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Trans-ocean sailing fits the organizational team/leadership metaphor well, as in order to achieve the basic goal of getting from A to B, the team needs to function effectively in handling…

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The ‘Brazilian Way’: The Future for Africa?

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: University of Pretoria Gordon Institute of Business Science   

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Africa’s growth and development prospects over the past decade have attracted the attention of investors, development agencies and governments across the world. ‘Traditional partners’ — i.e. the Americans and the…

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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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