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Potential Leaders: Height Helps But So Does Being Smart
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Stockholm School of Economics
Tall men have a greater chance of becoming leaders. As unfair as this may seem, and despite the obvious exceptions from Napoleon to CEO superstar Jack Welch, decades of research…
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A Lower Voice Can Take You Higher Up the Leadership Ladder
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business Rady School of Management
Research in academic laboratory settings — that is, within controlled experiments with voluntary participants — has shown that individuals with deeper voices are perceived as having more leadership capabilities. Different…
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Firms Are Not Adapting to the Millennial Workforce
Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business
In addition to economic and diversity issues, the Duke University/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey for the fourth quarter of 2014 focused on the issue of millennials in the workplace.…
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Does Employee Satisfaction Improve Company Value? It Depends…
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania London Business School Warwick University Business School
When the most important asset of a company is human capital, attracting and retaining high-quality, motivated employees is the key to sustainable competitive advantage. High employee satisfaction makes the company…
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Does Work/Life Balance Help or Hurt Productivity?
Idea posted: January 2015
Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Munich School of Management London School of Economics
Work-life balance issues bring out the optimist in some, the pessimist in others. For pessimists, the work-life balance concerns of employees will be undermined when a firm faces increased competition…
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Ways to Encourage Employees to Help Each Other
Idea posted: September 2014
Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business
In a world of business in which cooperation is often the key to success, many companies overlook the damage that infighting, extreme competition or knowledge hoarding by employees can cause…
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Competitive Advantage through Individuals Outside the Norm
Idea posted: August 2014
Institutions: Ivey Business School at Western University
When in May 2013, software giant SAP announced that it would hire hundreds of people who were diagnosed with autism, the assumption among casual observers might have been that SAP…
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Can Employees Be Motivated by More than Money and Benefits?
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: Kellogg School of Management University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Motivation can be divided into two dimensions: outcome-focused and process-focused. With outcome-focused motivation, people are driven by the desire of an achievement. They want to finish the task so that…
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Surviving a Recession: Seven Lessons from Family Businesses
Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: Boston Consulting Group HEC Paris
Family-controlled companies are associated with tradition and continuity, but that doesn’t mean they’re ‘behind the curve’. A recent study suggests that when it comes to sustainable performance, they can beat…
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