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Strategy
How numbers and negative feelings impact our self-control
Here, Dr. Sonja Prokopec discusses her recent research on how cost information can impact self-control.
Economy & Finance
Should we be worried about CETA’s proposed investment court system?
Professor Veronika Korom analyzes the potential influence of CETA’s investment court system and shares her expert take on what this means for the European economy.
Leadership
Get a hobby! How leisure activities can help you at work
We know that work-life balance is important. Less known is the fact that it’s also important what you do with your life outside of work: in their recent paper, Professor Karoline Strauss and her colleagues show that spending more time on a hobby can help you feel more effective at work - and identify the specific conditions under which you can get this boost.
Economy & Finance
Big Little Questions to Rethink Poverty: On the contribution of Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer
Dr. Estefania Santacreu-Vasut discusses the methodological revolution in economics and the recent Nobel prize of Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer.
Economy & Finance
Sense and Suspense: A Nineteenth-century English-literature Perspective to the Modern Firm
Would a modern firm be closer to a Jane Austen's novel than to a firm with a standard business model ?
Innovation
The dangers of artificial intelligence
In this article, Arnaud de Bruyn, professor of marketing at ESSEC Business School, turns our attention to some of the more tangible dangers that we tend to overlook.
Leadership
The Importance of Rigorous Thought Leadership in Entrepreneurship and Why It Matters
In a field such as entrepreneurship, which relies on perpetually moving forward, rigorous thought leadership plays a key role. However, Professor Steven Seggie argues that such rigorous thought leadership is severely lacking in the entrepreneurship domain.
Strategy
If you think you "get intrapreneurship"... think again!
In ESSEC Knowledge Review on Entrepreneurship, Fabrice Cavarretta explains how the merging of new activities is not as simple as managers of big firms tend to think. Discover how you can be aware of intrapreneurship, to keep on with the changing environment.
Strategy
Game of Thrones and the Game of Brands
The end of the famous show Game of Thrones offers the opportunity to professor Steven Seggie to sum up the various brands partnerships of the show, and generally speaking the key elements for a successful communication strategy.
Economy & Finance
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship seems to be the trending topic and we constantly hear in the medias about success stories of famous people such as Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates, among many others. But do we really know what is an entrepreneur? It seems that opinions on the subject are as many as the reasons that make an entrepreneur successful. The word "entrepreneurship" comes from the French verb "entreprendre" which means "to undertake". Therefore, we have to study further those key actors of the economy.
