Thought Leadership
Strategy at stake: Conflict between people and profits
Editor's Note: The Goff Strategic Leadership Center theorizes that successful strategic leaders demonstrate skills across six specific dimensions (what we refer to as the Six Principles of Strategic Leadership). This model of leadership indicates that competence in these six areas contributes to high levels of individual, team, and organizational [...]
Confidence, Credibility, & Strategic Leadership
The Goff Strategic Leadership Center theorizes that successful strategic leaders demonstrate skills across six specific dimensions (what we refer to as the Six Principles of Strategic Leadership). This model of leadership indicates that competence in these six areas contributes to high levels of individual, team, and organizational success. Research conducted by [...]
Research: Amplifying Your Colleagues’ Voices Benefits Everyone
By Kristin Bain, Tamar A. Kreps, Nathan L. Meikle, and Elizabeth R. Tenney Summary Amplification, or a public endorsement of someone's idea with proper attribution of credit, can help ensure that team members' ideas don't get overlooked or attributed to the wrong person. In [...]
Why Business Schools Need to Teach Experimentation
By Elizabeth R. Tenney, Elaine Costa, and Ruchi M. Watson Summary A combination of the availability of massive amounts of consumer data and improved computing power, plus the fact that it's easier and cheaper to randomize participants than ever before, has created the perfect [...]
Eccles School launches postdoctoral program in Entrepreneurship & Strategy
The Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy at the University of Utah's David Eccles School of Business launched a new postdoctoral fellowship program with the hire of Maria Kurakina, a young scholar with a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Postdoctoral [...]
Gender Diversifying the Business Curriculum
By Gary Fraser and Ruchi Watson Preview SINCE THE LATE 1970s, more women than men have studied at higher education institutions in the United States. As of 2018, 56 percent of undergraduate students in the U.S. were women, according to the National Center for Education [...]