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Making Digital Work For You
Liri Andersson, INSEAD Guest Lecturer, founder of this fluid world, and Ludo Van der Heyden, Chaired Professor of Corporate Governance & Professor of Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD | April 21, 2016
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When CEOs Become Activists
More and more, CEOs are promoting social causes that lie far outside their core business interests. Research by Mike Toffel and Aaron Chatterji explores the rise of CEO activists and the effects on their companies.
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/when-ceos-become-activists?cid=spmailing-12874915-WK%20Newsletter%2004-20-2016%20(1)-April%2020,%202016
What Does ‘Diversity’ Really Mean?
At Harvard Business School’s fourth annual Gender & Work Symposium, speakers reflected on how the language we use can either hold certain groups back or help point organizations toward positive social change.
How to Hire a Millennial
This is not your parents’ workplace anymore, Joseph Fuller reminds us. Crucial for attracting millennial workers are flexible work arrangements, meaningful mentorship programs, and sense of mission.
How Layoffs Hurt Companies
Several decades worth of research shows layoffs to be a poor way to boost profits, while other strategies may in fact work. Still, companies keep pink slips at the ready. Why?
Sharing, Solar and Social: One View of Cuba’s Economic Future
With U.S./Cuban relations continuing to thaw — as evidenced by President Obama’s recent trip to the island — a big question for businesses and investors is what kind of economy Cuba is going to build next. At the Second annual Cuba Opportunity Summit, hosted recently by Wharton in New York City, that question was picked up by Jillian Manus, managing partner at Structure Capital. What she’s hoping to see emerge there is not unalloyed capitalism.
The Titans of Globalization: 10 People Who Changed the World
Jeffrey E. Garten discusses his book, “From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives”
Accelerating Performance Through Culture Change: Lessons from the Banking Industry
Almost everyone acknowledges that banks and financial-services firms must change their culture if they are to regain the trust they have lost over the past several years. But progress across the industry has been uneven. The majority of banks are talking about culture change, and some have embarked on it tentatively. But only a few are unlocking its full potential: not simply to minimize bad conduct but also to enable their business to flourish and gain competitive advantage. Here is how they are doing it and what other banks can learn from them.
Why Some Workplace Health Incentive Programs Don’t Work — and Some Do
Plenty of companies give their employees monetary incentives to exercise, lose weight or quit smoking. So why arent more of us getting healthier?
The 100-Mile Commute
How can a service economy function at its full potential if many service workers can’t afford to live anywhere near their jobs?
http://www.strategy-business.com/blog/The-100-Mile-Commute?gko=f2985
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