Thought Leadership
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Television's Impact on the Status of Women
Turning on the television can be a simple yet influential way of improving a woman’s standing in rural India
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You Can't Buy It If You Don't Know It Exists
Rock groups can lose as much as 40% of their potential sales because consumers don’t know enough about them, says the Stanford Business School’s Alan Sorensen. There are lots of crowded markets out there where lack of information skews sales
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Nudge: The Gentle Power of Choice Architecture
Can subtle features of everyday situations really enhance our health, wealth, and happiness? A new book shows that they can, and that it is possible to proactively structure situations to nudge us toward better choices while protecting, or even expanding, individual freedoms.
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What's Next for Globalization?
As the companies that were once the suppliers to multinationals have grown into multinationals themselves, competitors can suddenly come from anywhere, according to Hal Sirkin
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Going for the Goal: The Human Psychology of Rewards
People tend to exert more effort as they get closer to their goals. Companies can take advantage of this by designing a customer rewards program that makes the perceived distance to the reward seem small
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Panic Attack at the Work Place
Julie McCarthy, the assistant professor of Organizational Behaviour discusses workplace anxiety and what employees and managers can do to counteract it
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The World is Running Out of Water
CEOs brace for looming global water crisis
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"Think about how you're going to take down a building before you build it"
Seeing the world through the lens of sustainability
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Can the Business of Food Impact Climate Change?
The food consumed annually by a family of four in the U.S. requires 970 gallons of gasoline to fertilize, produce, and transport. Helene York talks about one food service company's goal of reducing its carbon footprint while still maintaining a successful bottom line
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How Does Business Value Human Rights?
As businesses have expanded beyond boundaries, they've exceeded the grasp of many national laws and norms. What standards should exist for how businesses affect people's lives? Christine Bader, Advisor to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights answers
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Multibillion-Dollar Questions as Middle East Moves Beyond Crisis
The population has doubled in the region and a tentative peace has been established, pundits believe this might be the time to make inroads
