ARTICLES WITH TAG: Management

TOP RESEARCH Does going to business school turn you into a more selfish person?
Society

Does going to business school turn you into a more selfish person?

by Karoline Strauss

Does studying economics make people more selfish? And if so, what role do business schools have to play in shaping the values of our future leaders? Karoline Strauss, Professor of Management at ESSEC Business School, shares her research on how and when business education can produce greater levels of selfishness – or not.

SME: Dare to Think ‘Strategy’
Strategy

SME: Dare to Think ‘Strategy’

by Laurent Bourgeon

Laurent Bourgeon, Academic Director of the Operational Management and International Operational Management programs at ESSEC Business School, and author of the book Construire avec pertinence la stratégie pour votre PME (Build an Effective Strategy for your SME, Ellipses, 2016), urges small-to-medium enterprises to develop a strategy and shares key insights into how to do it effectively.

When and why is expressing sadness an effective negotiation tactic?
Leadership

When and why is expressing sadness an effective negotiation tactic?

by Marwan Sinaceur

New research from Prof. Marwan Sinaceur at ESSEC Business School is the first to investigate the potential role of sadness expression in conflict and negotiation. From the paper “Weep and Get More: When and Why Sadness Expression is Effective in Negotiations” by Marwan Sinaceur (ESSEC), Shirli Kopelman, Dimitri Vasiljevic, and Christophe Haag - Journal of Applied Psychology.

For an African entrepreneurial area
Society

For an African entrepreneurial area

by Hamid Bouchikhi

Prof. Hamid Bouchikhi, Director of the ESSEC Impact Entrepreneurship Center, asserts that for an African entrepreneurial area to materialize requires in-depth work with the younger generations. Because innovative entrepreneurs are, for the most part, young graduates from higher education, the mental setting up of an African entrepreneurial area calls for massive encouragement of infra-African student mobility...

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