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Michael J. Schill

Schill is an authority on international corporate finance, stock market anomalies and business valuation.

Earlybird or Latecomer? How Pecking Order and Timeliness Matter in Collaboration

Darden Professor Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt discusses how status and timeliness of response affect how a person’s message is received by his or her colleagues.

Everybody’s Biased, So I Can Be Too

How can businesses tackle a seemingly intractable problem such as stereotyping? Leaders have to structure processes correctly to weed out bias.

Helping Salespeople Soar: Moving the Needle

How do you motivate your sales team? What strategies are best for helping your top, middle and bottom performers scramble to a higher plateau?

The 'Bad News' Penalty

Darden Professor Justin Hopkins and Dain Donelson examine the effects of market-wide decline on the same day a company communicates negative news.

Justin J. Hopkins

Hopkins’ research interests include the effects of regulation on financial reporting, governance and economic outcomes. He focuses on securities and income tax regulation.

The Most Important and Least Asked Question in Business

Senior executives are constantly confronted with the need to make decisions in situations characterized by ambiguity, uncertainty and strategic importance.

Virtual Culture and Leadership: How to Manage Long-Distance Teams

Darden Professor June West discusses The Economist Intelligence Unit’s “Foresight 2020” research report that outlines five key trends in business for the next 15 years.

Guess What? Your Product Is Not Perfect

Darden Professor Raul Chao urges his entrepreneurial students — and entrepreneurs in general — to reject the traditional way of bringing a new product to market: the time-honored product launch.

Beyond Strategy: Three Steps Toward Execution

Enhancing execution capability is a three-step process. Overriding priorities are to (1) profile businesses in ways that are usable by the senior team, (2) do so using operational data currently accessible in the business, (3) provide rapid diagnostics of execution capability and (4) prioritize targeted intervention to address capability gaps.