Idea posted: October 2015
Institutions: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Hanken School of Economics Aalto University School of Business EMLYON Business School
To make decisions, leaders must understand, to use the vernacular, ‘what is happening’. They must make sense of the events and situations that impact their areas of responsibility; this sense-making…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #563Idea posted: October 2015
Institutions: Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Collaboration, either formal or discretionary (informally approaching others for guidance, information or assistance), is considered a virtue in today’s workplace. The advantages of collaboration are many, ranging from creativity and…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #552Idea posted: July 2015
Institutions: Warwick University Business School Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
CEOs are responsible for knowing what is going on in their companies. No matter how large, complex or global the organization, CEOs do not have the luxury of pleading ignorance;…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #532Idea posted: July 2015
Institutions: University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business
Uncertainty — such as a coming organizational restructuring, a new CEO brought in to turn around the company, a competitor’s new product or new technology that could derail the company’s…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #529Idea posted: July 2015
Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business
A new survey from Stanford University’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance on how investors use information from corporate proxy statements reveals deep dissatisfaction with corporate disclosure about executive compensation. The…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #528Idea posted: June 2015
Institutions: University of St. Gallen Technical University of Berlin University of Konstanz University of Potsdam Renmin University of China School of Business
As team members work on various (team) tasks and project, conflicts can arise over issues such as, for example, how the work should be done, or the best way to achieve…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #523Idea posted: April 2015
Institutions: Cornell University University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business Washington University Olin Business School Vanderbilt University
Conventional wisdom has it that diversity helps creativity, in that people in homogenous groups are similar to one another with similar ideas and therefore less divergent thinking occurs. Also most…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #505Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: Boston College Carroll School of Management EDHEC Business School ESDES School of Business and Management
There is no doubt that social media has improved both internal and external corporate communication, especially for multinational companies. Social media has, for example, enabled corporations to increase opportunities for…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #500Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business Cornell University Harvard Business School
Why don’t many employees say something when they see something wrong in the workplace, or when they are unfairly attacked by their boss? Why do they sit silent in meetings…
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