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The Middle Kingdom: Civilization State Or Nation State?
January 4, 2011, 12:00am PST
China is a conundrum: past, present and possibly the future. Even as it is on course to overshadow the US as the next dominant economic superpower, author Martin Jacques argues that it will never...
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Taking The Lead
August 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Peter Grauer, the Chairman and CEO of Bloomberg, is a man with a mantra and he repeats it every chance he gets: "We have an aspiration at Bloomberg to become the most influential news organization...
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Philanthrocapitalism: Dawn Of A New Era?
August 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
When Bill Gates and Warren Buffett stood on stage together at the New York Public Library and the elder billionaire announced the he was going to give away most of his fortune through the Bill and...
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Social Innovation; Fleet Forum
August 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In the wake of criticism regarding the response to high-profile disasters, humanitarian organizations began to focus increasingly on improving response delivery through improved logistics. Fleet...
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Outsourcing: India's Tata Eyes China Market As Part Of Drive To Go Global
August 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Indian firms are looking to expand overseas: not just west, but also east to China, a market with huge domestic opportunities. One such firm is IT services group Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a...
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Why Social Media Are "Absolutely Crucial" To Businesses
August 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Social media are "A crucial way for consumers to make a decision before purchasing. They'll do searching and they'll often end up on blog sites or forums. And for somebody in a...
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Finding And Implementing Energy Efficiency Projects In Industrial Facilities
August 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the challenges of finding and implementing profitable Energy Efficiency (EE) projects, a critical foundation for sustainable operations. The authors focus on manufacturing...
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Advance Selling When Consumers Regret
January 10, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors characterize the effect of anticipated regret on consumer decisions, firm profits and policies, in an advance selling context where buyers have uncertain valuations. Advance purchases...
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The Languages Of Strategic Agility: Trapped In Your Jargon Or Lost In Translation?
January 20, 2011, 12:00am PST
At the heart of strategy lie streams, or sequences, of decisions and resource commitments. Such decisions include major strategic moves like internationalization and new market entries or...
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When Does The Past Repeat Itself? The Interplay Of Behavior-Prediction Personal And Norms
January 20, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors find that behavior prediction strengthens behavior repetition, making people more likely to do what they normally do, when personal norms regarding engaging in a...
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Content Contributor Management And Network Effects In A UGC Environment
January 24, 2011, 12:00am PST
The success of any User-Generated Content (UGC) website depends crucially on its asset of content contributors. How firms should invest in the acquisition and retention of content contributors...
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Punishing High-status Deviants: The Role Of Transgression Severity And Betrayal
January 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
Evaluations of workplace deviant behavior are often biased by the personal characteristics of both deviants and sanctioners. In this paper, the authors focus on the characteristics of deviants and...
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Leadership And Judgment: Why Leaders Know More Than They Think
January 28, 2011, 12:00am PST
The author woke up early one morning in the summer of 2010. This was noteworthy; left to myself, the author would have woken up a few hours later, his head would have been happier and his stomach...
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The Impact Of New Product Introduction On Plant Productivity In The North American Automotive Industry
January 28, 2011, 12:00am PST
Using 7 years of plant-level data for the North-American automotive industry, the authors empirically study productivity losses during new product launches. Using propensity scoring, they estimate...
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Emotional Intelligence And Leadership Effectiveness: The Mediating Influence Of Collaborative Behaviors
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Leadership effectiveness can be divided into two broad categories that include getting along behaviors (teamwork and empowerment of others) and/or getting ahead behaviors (visioning. energizing....
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Partnering With Competitors - Effects Of Alliances On Airline Entry And Capacity Decisions
February 14, 2011, 12:00am PST
The formation of an airline alliance is one of the most important and difficult decisions that has to be made by airline management. In particular, domestic airline alliances have always caused...
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Identity Workspaces For Leadership Development
February 25, 2011, 12:00am PST
Profound changes in individuals' relationship with their employers and expectations for their work lives have generated an increasing demand for leadership development, while at the same time...
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Understanding The Role Of Language In Management Forecast Press Releases
January 31, 2011, 12:00am PST
Using a sample of 2,254 voluntarily-provided "Unbundled" management earnings forecast press releases; the authors investigate the role of linguistic sentiment and linguistic certainty in pricing....
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Estimating Perceptions Of Discrimination: Experimental Economics In Schools
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors put forward a new experimental economics design with monetary incentives to estimate people's perceptions of discrimination in a variety of contexts. They apply the design to estimate...
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Endogenous Overconfidence In Managerial Forecasts
March 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine whether attribution bias that leads managers who have experienced short-terni forecasting success to become overconfident in their ability to forecast future earnings....
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CEO Contract Horizon And Investment
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the relation between contract horizon and investment using a new, hand-collected dataset of 3,717 US CEO employment contracts. It finds that contract horizon predicts (ex post)...
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Managing New Product Development An Evolutionary Framework
September 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a theoretical framework that integrates research from various disciplines on different areas of New Product Development (NPD) in a common context. NPD...
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The Global Business Leader
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Leadership has nothing to do with titles. J. Frank Brown, the Dean of INSEAD, has met a lot of CEOs in his two-and-a-half decades in business and many of them are little more than LINOs - Leaders...
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Putting Leaders On The Couch
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
When Professor Manfred Kets de Vries coaches leadership teams, he effectively puts them on the couch - treating them not so much as rational actors but as emotional ones. A clinical professor of...
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The New Deal At The Top
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Most companies have managers reporting directly to the CEO on a one-to-one basis, with responsibility for their units or regions," says Yves Doz, who holds the Timken chair in Global Technology...
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Leadership: A Chinese Puzzle
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
China's economy is booming, but one of the major challenges facing the country will be leadership - or the lack of it - in political or business spheres. INSEAD Affiliate Professor of Asian...
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Middle Managers Linchpin To Dynamic Team Leadership
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Although research suggests there's no 'one size fits all' approach to leadership, a fixed or generic notion of leadership still gets taught at all levels, to be used at all times, for all...
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Taking Leadership Research Global
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The objective of the paper was to promote rigorous and relevant research on leadership-broadly defined as influencing people to contribute willingly to the good of the collective, as well as...
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Can Leadership Withstand The Ravages Of The Crisis?
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The sudden collapse of Lehman Brothers and the fall of AIG have not just shaken the financial community to its core, which has sent reverberations worldwide, its leaders have also come under fire....
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The Leadership Circle
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Leaders get the best out of followers and followers get the best out of leaders," says Manfred Kets De Vries, Clinical Professor of Leadership Development at INSEAD. The connection between leaders...
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Leadership Today: Less Charisma, More Consensus
December 22, 2009, 12:00am PST
When people think of words to describe good leadership, 'charisma' usually comes somewhere near the top of the list. After all, all the good ideas in the world won't get anywhere if speaker aren't...
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Just A Pretty Face(Book)? Social Media Tries To Come Of Age
May 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Emails are old hat; SMSs passes. Tweeting, blogging, and posting on "walls" are no longer the domain of the under-30s. They have become a staple of the way most people in the world communicate...
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Businesses Increasingly Face Water Risks
May 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The world will face a 40 per cent shortfall in water supplies by 2030. The good news is that if one are smart, one can meet the challenge successfully. But this can only happen through...
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China's Media Come Of Age Amid State Controls
June 2, 2010, 12:00am PDT
China's media are no longer an instrument of the state, says Hu Shuli, a Chinese journalist."I don't think the media in China now are still an instrument of the state. I think the media today are...
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China's quiet confidence
June 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
China's premier, Wen Jiabao, has said that 2010 will be a very difficult year for the country's economy, yet in Q1 its performance was remarkable. China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 11.9...
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Upstart: China's Emergence In Technology And Innovation
June 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
It can easily appear as if China can make anything. Yet it makes goods not only at low cost, but now also of high quality, and this constitutes a particularly Chinese brand of innovation that...
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Transition To The Future: Mining And Mineral Processing In China
June 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
China's mining and mineral processing sector has for years been one of the most significant markets for the world's technology leaders. Increasingly, however, the tables are turning. Innovations...
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Building By Design: How China Develops The Developing World
June 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Chinese contractors and design firms have become major players internationally. In construction, one of the world's most important industries at over 10 per cent of global GDP, China accounts for...
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Doing It The Chinese Way: Disney's Strategy For A Lucrative Ride In China
June 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As trite as the phrase 'think global, act local' may be, it nevertheless encapsulates The Walt Disney Company's approach to making a success of its business in China. To that end, producing...
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Global Airline Traffic Back To Pre-Recession Levels But Risks Remain
June 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
IATA expects airlines to post global profits of $2.5 billion in 2010, a major improvement compared with IATA's previous forecast released in March of a $2.8 billion loss. Bisignani attributes this...
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Sustainable Practices: Engaging Consumers And Suppliers
June 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) is one firm that knows very well that its environmental and economic impact extends well beyond its factory gates. This starts with the ingredients it needs for its...
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How LG Electronics Reinvented Itself In The US
June 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
It took three attempts in four years for Korean electronics giant LG Electronics (LGE) to launch its brand in the US market in 2002. Five years later, it became the top seller of refrigerators and...
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A Passion For Education
July 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
If one build it, they will come - so the mantra goes - and that's exactly what Ng Gim Choo did with the EtonHouse group of schools. And serendipity, as it turned out, would play a key role. After...
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Network Formation And The Structure Of The Commercial World Wide Web
September 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors attempt to model the commercial World Wide Web as a directed graph emerging as the equilibrium of a game in which utility maximizing Web sites purchase (adver-tising)...
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