Howard Raiffa, Harvard University’s Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics Emeritus (a joint endowed chair at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School), who was for decades a pioneering, extraordinarily influential, […]
Howard Raiffa, Harvard University’s Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics Emeritus (a joint endowed chair at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School), who was for decades a pioneering, extraordinarily influential, […]
A complex mix of culture, compensation, and relative moral standards makes it difficult for individuals in the financial sector to identify ethically right actions. Imagine you are working as a relatively junior […]
A new research study to be published by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management gives credence to the power of evidence based management, big […]
It can’t just be because Google have slides at their offices around the world that the company has been named by Fortune as the best company to work for in the US […]
Corporate diversity initiatives create a pay premium for women who are in – or are likely to reach – senior management positions. Around the world, women with equivalent abilities and qualifications earn […]
Overqualified workers will improve their performance and wellbeing if they have greater freedom within their role, new research from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has found. The research, […]
Introducing modern ‘lean’ processes to mass manufacturers in developing countries can have the effect of improving working conditions, according to a study by academics from Oxford, Stanford, and Brown universities. In a […]
Fools rush in When setting up a new company, groups of co-founders often assume that dividing the equity evenly between them is the quickest and fairest thing to do. But, Professor Thomas […]
A survey of nearly 2,000 CEOs and CFOs reveals a startling disconnect between the value culture adds and how companies underinvest in it The corporate culture of firms is credited when they […]
In turbulent and uncertain conditions, using scenarios to reframe and re-perceive challenges can offer a better approach to strategy formation than evidence-based planning, risk-management, and projection, say the authors of a new […]
Researcher Alex Wood calls on new DWP (Department of Work and Pensions) Minister Stephen Crabb to acknowledge distinction between flexible scheduling controlled by managers to maximise profit, damaging lives of the low-paid […]
The Center for Good Governance, a joint initiative of IE Business School and Grant Thornton, has presented a report headed “Recommendations for Good Corporate Governance for Non-Listed Firms” aimed at helping non-listed […]
Boards may be too often swayed by charm when evaluating CEO candidates New research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business has identified four factors that predict whether a job candidate will […]
From the gym to the office, sticking to your plan may require thinking about the experience when planning. Plenty of well-intentioned exercisers select programs designed to whip themselves into shape, only to […]