How Mindfulness Reduces Guilt… But Also Apologies

Idea posted: September 2022

Institutions: Foster School of Business    University of Washington    Yale University    ESSEC Business School   

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A manager overreacts to an employee’s minor mistake and yells at the employee in front of his peers. Afterwards, the manager feels some guilt about the outburst for several reasons:…

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Multicultural Experience: Better Performance, Better Job Prospects

Idea posted: March 2014

Institutions: INSEAD    Tel Aviv University    Columbia Business School   

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The next head of General Electric will be somebody who spent time in Bombay, in Hong Kong, in Buenos Aires. We have to send our best and brightest overseas and…

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Beating Bias through Mindfulness Meditation

Idea posted: October 2013

Institutions: INSEAD    The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania   

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Sunk cost bias has been blamed for everything from disastrous military campaigns to over-budget public works and is widely acknowledged as a serious obstacle to effective decision-making. Defined as the…

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