Idea posted: July 2014
Institutions: Harvard Business School Boston College Carroll School of Management
The most basic business is product-based, involving the manufacturing, assembling and/or delivery of a product. A different type of business, once rare but becoming more and more common, is platform-based,…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #422Idea posted: May 2014
Institutions: Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) Kellogg School of Management University of Chicago Booth School of Business
The true measure of integrity in a firm is not comforting slogans on the home page of the company website, but how employees feel about whether top management, through its…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #379Idea posted: November 2013
Institutions: Fordham University Graduate School of Business George Washington University School of Business University of Virginia Darden Business School
The declining level of trust in businesses and corporations, from both customers and employees, is well documented. As companies seek to maintain or rebuild the trust of their stakeholders, they…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #262Idea posted: June 2013
Institutions: Kellogg School of Management
Exploring the relation between information that is presented in corporate accountability reports and future financial performance three professors from the Kellogg School of Management’s Accounting Information and Management Department focused…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #158Idea posted: June 2013
Institutions: Ivey Business School at Western University
The idea of character has been lost sight of. One reason could be that the educational system and organizations are completely competency focused, or perhaps because character seems an old-fashioned…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #157Idea posted: June 2013
Institutions: ESADE
Responsible leadership is a concept that can help link corporate social responsibility (CSR) and performance to actions on the part of policy makers and leaders. In a world where public…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #145Idea posted: June 2013
Institutions: University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
Recently, faculty from Kenan-Flagler Business School and Robert H. Smith School of Business looked at the relationship between egotistic (or narcissistic) CEOs and firm performance by measuring ego by the…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #080Idea posted: May 2013
Institutions: IESE Business School
In high-growth companies, it is a fact that periods of expansion are often punctuated by sudden and severe challenges. Noting the extreme tension between success and failure in businesses today,…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #030Idea posted: March 2013
Institutions: ESADE
Success in business is no longer about simply becoming bigger or richer than one’s competitors. It is about being able to deal with increasing levels of complexity, including the management…
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