Idea posted: March 2014

Institutions: IMD   

Traditionally, financial capital has been viewed as the primary promoter of growth and profitability for an organization. Though undoubtedly still important, executives have begun to realise there is something else…

Idea posted: March 2014

Institutions: Ghent University    Vlerick Business School   

Co-creation in the business-to-consumer (B2C) environment is nothing new. Many services — ranging from hairdressing to care for the elderly through architecture and interior design — have long involved close…

Idea posted: March 2014

Institutions: INSEAD    Tel Aviv University    Columbia Business School   

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…

Idea posted: March 2014

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management    Columbia Business School    INSEAD   

Spending time overseas has long been associated with the development of a more open and optimistic view of humanity and the world. In his 1869 autobiographical work Innocents Abroad, Mark…

Idea posted: March 2014

Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania    IE Business School   

The profile of leaders has changed over the decades, with a significant shift away from the notion of lifetime employment. The employee of the mid-twentieth century who climbed the ladder…

Idea posted: March 2014

Institutions: China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)    University of Macau    City University of Hong Kong   

Organizational justice has become a major focus of management research in recent years, due to its connection with numerous employee outcomes; satisfaction, commitment, trust and reduced levels of turnover have…

Idea posted: March 2014

Institutions: INSEAD   

Strong relationships and social ties between clients and individual executives can be something of a double-edged sword in business. There is always the danger of client defection when the ‘linchpin’…

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

According to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics, the participation rate for women in the labour force was down from 60.3% in 2000, to 57.6% in 2012. This was despite…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: Kellogg School of Management    Yale University   

The question of whether positive or negative incentives work better has long been a matter of debate in society. From biblical times to the very recent past, children were thought…