Management

The Capital of Large Italian Companies, 30% Controlled by Women, Ensures Better Governance

Research coordinated by Alessandro Minichilli and conducted by SDA Bocconi Corporate Governance Lab, Lazard and Linklaters highlights women's growing role in equity capital

Nilanjana Dutt and Cedric Gutierrez Receive Two SMJ Best Reviewer Awards

Assigned by the Strategic Management Journal to reviewers who made an outstanding contribution to SMJ's peer review process

Three Tips to Manage Corporate Jugglers

Pedersen, Colicev and Hakkarainen found that performance in multiproject work arrangements can be improved when employees have specialized knowledge, projects are similar, and participants already know each other

Do Risk Prone CEOs Really Promote Innovation?

Research by Dovev Lavie and Patricia Klarner reveals that a CEO's risk propensity promotes exploration in product development only when the CEO is powerful, competitive pressure is strong and, surprisingly, the firm's accumulated exploration experience is not too high

Why Family Businesses Are More Resilient

Certain features of entrepreneurial families amplify the ability of top management teams to absorb and recover from shocks, according to an analysis by Bocconi, Unicredit and AIDAF

Gather Ideas From Strangers, but Work Through Them With People Close to You

Mannucci and Perry Smith analyze the role of personal networks in the creative process. Activating weak ties helps idea generation while triggering stronger ones makes fine tuning more effective, as Mannucci himself experienced directly when writing a novel