Design is now being lauded as a much-needed mindset for business leaders – those seeking a customer-centred approach to innovation, reimagining operations and rethinking supply chains and financial models.
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New design executives are making the case that integrating design across an entire company will have a positive impact on employees, customers and the bottom line.
A mascot for Alibaba’s online shopping site Tmall urges customers to buy on Singles Day.
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Chinese customers spend billions on Nov. 11. Why, and what does it mean for the global retail marketplace?
The women elected to the 2019 congress pose for a photo.
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After a year of headlines and ousted CEOs, Congress has yet to pass a single piece of legislation on sexual harassment – let alone hold a hearing. That may change as lawmakers get to work in 2019.
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Businesses pulling out of the recent Saudi investment conference over journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death is just the latest example.
Supporters of Brazilian far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro celebrate his victory in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 28, 2018.
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Our research shows how Brazil’s business elite has influenced the course of politics in the country.
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Energy-efficient water supply is a wicked problem – and we might have found a way to solve it.
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Project managers are the forgotten heroes of major building projects across the world.
Many cocoa producers in Ghana and the Ivory Coast use child labour and child slave labour.
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The Modern Slavery Bill before the Senate is touted as ‘smart legislation’, because it asks for information rather than imposes penalties, but it mightn’t be enough.
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In almost every city, consumer demand and business diversity had a big role to play.
William Nordhaus argues markets can help curb climate change.
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William Nordhaus showed that the market offers the best chance for preventing global catastrophe form climate change.
Do you distrust the companies that profit from the goods and services you buy? Research suggests most of us do.
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Research shows that consumers don’t like it when businesses make money. Why?
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A positive outlook is great – but it can lead to some ill judged start up ideas.
Apple’s Tim Cook believes access to high-skill immigrants is a key source of American innovation.
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New research shows recruiting high-skilled immigrants leads to a ‘meaningful’ increase in innovation – and even more than spending money on research and development.
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There is a brighter side to caregiving. It can improve work performance and morale.
Students graduate.
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With the unemployment rate at about the lowest level in almost 50 years, how much lower could it go? An economist explains.
Politics are creating divides in the office.
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The midterm elections have put America’s political divide front and center, increasingly invading the work space and stressing out employees.
Christie’s auctions off a Lehman Brothers sign in 2010.
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It’s when times are good that the seeds of the next financial crisis are sown.
Elon Musk changed his mind about privatizing Tesla.
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The history of leveraged buyouts suggest Musk was smart to heed the advice of investors and nip his plan to take Tesla private in the bud.
Students often believe a STEM degree will serve them better in the job market.
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A handful of high-profile executives have humanities degrees. But those standouts make up a small proportion of the total pool of American executives.
Indonesia has decided that state-owned oil and gas firm Pertamina will take over the Rokan block, in Riau, from Chevron when the US energy firm’s operating contract expires in 2021.
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The recent Rokan block deal signals a shift to a more nationalist agenda, but Indonesia’s government is still pursuing other more outward-looking economic policies.