Leadership : Page 29

Doing business with another culture? Think twice about handshake

July 13, 2017 Westerners view handshaking more positively than do East Asians, researchers report in a new study.

CEO/chairman role shows does your country trust you

July 10, 2017 There is a question that will never go away: Should CEO and chairman be two separate roles? With arguments for and against, it all comes down to the school of thought and performance.

Type fast if you want to be a virtual team leader

July 6, 2017 A new study from the University of Iowa finds that to the fast typist go the leadership spoils.

Requiring employees to be in office is outdated tradition

June 29, 2017 Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Nicholas Bloom says requiring employees to be in the office is an outdated work tradition, set up during the Industrial Revolution.

What happens when someone sees an ad with sexual appeal

June 26, 2017 Could it be that sex actually does not sell? An analysis of nearly 80 advertising studies published over more than three decades suggests that's the case.

How much connections help male and female analysts in their jobs

June 22, 2017 Male analysts gain more from their connections with executives at the companies they cover than their female counterparts, shows new research by INSEAD Associate Professor of Finance, Lily Fang.

CEOs who appear on CNBC can see their pay rise over $200,000 per year

June 19, 2017 New research that examined 4,452 CEOs from 2,666 U.S. firms, as well as 104,129 news articles and 6,567 CNBC interviews, found that CEOs who appeared in CNBC interviews could expect their compensation to increase by $210,239 on average, notwithstanding firm performance and other mitigating factors.

Paying online community members to write product reviews backfires badly

June 15, 2017 Online user reviews have become an essential tool for consumers who increasingly rely on them to evaluate products and services before purchase.

Setting stretch goals can undermine organizational performance

June 12, 2017 While the general consensus regarding stretch goals is that they boost drive, innovation, and improve organizational performance, new research in the INFORMS journal Organization Science shows that this is the exception, and not the rule.

Is 'doing good' bad for company's bottom line? Yes, says study

June 8, 2017 Companies that try to \"do good\" are likely to find that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is bad for their bottom lines, according to a new study from Florida Atlantic University\'s College of Business.

Is it a risky business move of playing with luck?

June 5, 2017 You may often read that some company was engaged in a risky business move and although we intuitively know what that means, if we try to define a risky move we'll see that's not so easy.

Women may avoid leadership position out of unhappiness

June 1, 2017 The lack of women in leadership positions could be because women aren’t happy in those positions, new research suggests.