05 Feb 2017 We Are Who We Hire Within the same sector there are firms with a productivity double that of others and research finds more and more clues of the fact that it is human capital playing an essential role in these differences, affirms Nicolai Foss
30 Mar 2017 Why We Don't Like Decisions Made by Groups A study by Kouchaki, Smith and Netchaeva reveals that, in response to the same unfavorable decision outcome, a group of decision makers is perceived to be less fair than an individual
23 Dec 2016 Ioannis Evangelidis Awarded by the Association of Consumer Research The professor at the Department of Marketing is a recipient of the 2016 ACR Nicosia Award
22 Dec 2016 Anne Jacqueminet Awarded for Her PhD Dissertation The Bocconi professor's study on the implementation of CSR in MNEs' subsidiaries has obtained the HEC Foundation Doctoral Thesis Prize
25 Jan 2017 Bribery, a Shortsighted Alternative to Investments A study by Birhanu, Gambardella and Valentini reveals the mechanism behind the relationship between bribery and investment in fixed assets: short term oriented firms prefer to bribe rather than invest, while the opposite is true for firms with a longterm orientation
11 Jan 2017 Why the Most Innovative Companies Have Holes in Them Corporations with dense and homogenous internal networks are unlikely to make good use of external knowledge. When networks are more open and workers fill the gaps of their networks by talking to people with different skills, patents production increases