Thought Leadership
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Want to be happier? Spend some money on avoiding household chores
In an age of time scarcity, buying our way out of the negative moments in the day is an important key to happiness, according to research by Ashley V. Whillans, Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Paul Smeets, and Rene Bekkers
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You are a brand. What's your tagline?
When we are engaged in activities that are intrinsically motivated, we experience "flow"—that sense that we are in the zone and time seems to stop as we focus on a single activity
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Digital Economy: The great Indian leapfrog
The digital economy provides India a way to start off the journey toward becoming a developed nation without waiting for costly and time-consuming industrial infrastructure investments to bear fruit
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Build human capital or buy it?
Hiring the right people is critical for companies to reduce employee attrition and enhance returns from human resources. Companies commonly use two broad strategies to hire — either 'build', i.e., recruit novices, or 'buy', i.e., hire experienced workers from competitors. Based on his research, ISB Professor Amit Chauradia suggests conditions under which the company can maximise economic benefits from either of the two strategies
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Learning to live with disruption
Today's companies will only survive if they learn to live with disruption
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Time to rethink strategy
Africa forces the question: Are we paying attention to emerging ecosystems that could disrupt our business models?
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Miscarriage of justice at the workplace
A manager-subordinate unit is the basic element which pieces together organisations, their processes and their outcomes
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Towards sustainable environmental investment
Despite the streams of thought that ignore climate change, there is data to illustrate the magnitude of its economic impact, among other implications. Can we continue to turn a blind eye?
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Why ex-banker Ed Clark believes in always 'doing the right thing'
The former CEO of TD Bank—who led its expansion into the U.S. and the tripling of its market capitalization—talks about his track record of 'doing the right thing' and the importance of being intolerant of intolerance
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Chinese companies in India: Fighting for the next big market
For decades, China has been considered the biggest and most important emerging market in Asia. But now India is stepping into the spotlight, as opportunities for foreign companies grow
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Preparing teams to lead innovative change
A new model of organisational change for today's fast-moving industries