By Kamalini Ramdas, Professor of Management Science and Operations and Deloitte Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at London Business School Southern India’s Aravind Eye Hospital in driven by a clear mission to ‘eliminate needless blindness’. That clarity of purpose is laudable,...
Melisande Kingchatchaval Schifter, Project Lead, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, World Economic Forum Anti-racist activism has seen a rise worldwide since George Floyd’s murder by police officers on May 25, 2020. Black Lives Matter protests promoting the fundamental principles of social justice,...
As the minutes counted down to kick off, Adi Dassler busied himself checking the boots the German team would wear. Suddenly the phone rang. His brother Rudi was terminally ill. Adi’s response to the news was cold and curt. “We haven’t...
“So, what do you do?” “Where do you live?” “How do you know [Name of Host]?” are some of my least favorite kind of questions, because they don’t elicit interesting answers. If you want to get to know someone, you’ll have...
One of the most frequent comments spouted by critics of electric vehicles is “the electricity they use is produced by fossil fuels, so actually they’re more polluting than petrol or diesel vehicles.” The long tailpipe theory, repeatedly trashed by science, is...
Generation Z, born between 1995 and 2009, is entering the workplace Not only are there are more of them than any generation before, they also wield more influence. Gen Z have already shown their considerable power on college campuses and now...
It may be best known for cringey dance routines but, for many people, TikTok—the social media app beloved by Gen Z—has become a go-to destination for advice on how to stop procrastinating and achieve more in your day. The hashtag #productivitytips...
Cryptocurrencies have crashed, bringing their value back to what they were in 2020, and they might continue crashing for a while. In two years, we observed a popular craving that saw most people (including me! I never want to miss a...
While we are obsessed about creating diverse workforces and managing them, many of us fail to manage that diversity. On paper, a diverse team is great. It’s a group of people from different backgrounds coming together to exchange new ideas. In...
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki faces scrutiny for his purchase of Polish Treasury Bonds worth 4.6 Million Zlotys (more than $1 million) and half of which were inflation-linked. Opposition lawmakers and civil society activists demanded that Morawiecki (an economist and former...
