Can Big Data Make Business More Ethical?
The mountains of information collected by business and government present substantial ethical challenges, but they may provide solutions to others.
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Can We Think Flat, but Act Hierarchically?
With the global rate of technological and cultural change only accelerating, businesses today must learn to harness both the innovativeness of flat organizations and the effectiveness of hierarchical ones.
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
Globally, confidence in leadership has all but disappeared in recent years. Technology may be partly to blame, but our crumbling faith in leadership may say more about how we’ve changed than how our leaders have.
Where Do Startups Start?
Frictions in markets and within companies create opportunities for entrepreneurs to unlock value — but not without costs.
Can Big Data Give us Big Ideas?
Big Data can do more than target advertisements, it could even help innovators develop new concepts and products.
Feedback Doesn’t Have to be Stressful
An expert on stress and performance, Modupe Akinola discusses how new techniques emerging in the field could reduce unnecessary stress in the office.
KIND Snacks: Starting a Healthy Conversation
In 2015, KIND Snacks rose from controversy to start a conversation on FDA food labeling.
Getting Your People Strategy Right
Seven ways to grow and protect your most valuable asset.
With the major technical hurdles overcome, Healthcare.gov must turn to helping consumers make better choices
The creation of state and federal healthcare exchanges represents a significant first step towards bringing greater rationality to health insurance markets, but the design of the exchanges may still
When Inequality Kills
Economic stratification can have grave consequences — no more so than in the richest country in the world.
Why Eliminating the One-Child Policy Could Slow China’s Growth
Now that parents can have two children, Chinese growth could take a two-decade hit.
Healthcare in India: On the Brink
Two speakers at the recent India Business Initiative conference offer radical suggestions for solving the country’s physician shortage.
Revving Up India's Medical Machine
Columbia University’s physician-in-chief prescribes some radical intervention that will help cure India’s healthcare crisis.
NEW RESEARCH: Insights on the Future of Data Sharing
The high pitched fervor over ‘big data’ has died down a bit, but only because companies are more focused on putting their noses to the grind stone to determine how to more effectively collect and analyze data, of all sizes, to improve their business performance.
The Imperative of Forest Conservation
Second only to the use of fossil fuels, deforestation is the largest driver of global climate change, but a proposal before the United Nations Conference on Climate Change could change that.