Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: INSEAD    University College London    University of St. Gallen   

Despite decades-long efforts to eradicate it, corruption continues to be a serious business risk in emerging markets. Policies by national and international governments have had only limited success; so, too,…

Idea posted: December 2013

Institutions: University of Texas McCombs School of Business    Brigham Young University Marriott School of Management    Columbia Business School    New York University Stern School of Business    Stanford Graduate School of Business    University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business   

When it comes to setting and achieving goals, power makes a difference. Those with more power are quicker to establish goals, and to take action to achieve those goals, than…

Idea posted: July 2013

Institutions: Henley Business School   

Do you want your business to operate sustainable, socially and environmentally friendly practices? Almost every business leader will answer with a “yes”. But if they are allowed to elaborate, most…

Idea posted: June 2013

Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford   

Formal risk management systems now provide the dominant logic for governing an uncertain world and are prevalent in public services as well as private firms. What happens when these systems…

Idea posted: June 2013

Institutions: Columbia Business School    Harvard Business School    Stanford Graduate School of Business   

Professors Ilyana Kuziemko of Columbia Business School and Ryan Buell and Michael Norton of Harvard Business School, working with doctoral candidate Taly Reich of the Stanford Graduate School of Business,…

Idea posted: May 2013

Institutions: Vlerick Business School   

Performance and risk are actually two sides of the same coin. Although they have traditionally been reported and managed by different organisational functions, there is a growing tendency to link…

Idea posted: May 2013

Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford   

Scenario planning (SP) and early warning scanning (EWS) are considered important to ‘managerial cognition’. They help leaders understand how the future might unfold and they alert top management to new…

Idea posted: May 2013

Institutions: IE Business School    University of Cambridge Judge Business School   

Robots are taking over our jobs! Ok, maybe that’s not quite the case just yet, but as technology continues to develop swiftly, there is no doubt that machines are getting…

Idea posted: April 2013

Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business   

‘Connected’ CEOs are those who have very close ties to the other top executives in the firm. CEOs are especially connected if they were responsible for appointing the executives to…