Can Women Fix Capitalism?
By Joanna Barsh
Gender equality at the top of business has stalled, and trust in business is alarmingly low. Putting more women in charge could...
The Digital Transformation Opportunities Ahead
By Mike Sutcliff
The proliferation of digital technologies allows scope for innovation in the way organisations deliver customer experience. Here Mike Sutcliff explores the first...
How Political Intelligence Sets Successful Leaders Apart
By Gerry Reffo and Valerie Wark
Leadership Alert! There are times when the classic development of leaders no longer fully equips them or their organisations...
The Road to Sustainable Business Mobility
Interview with Carsten Kwirandt
In this day and age, sustainability must be on the agenda of every organisation – particularly when it comes to their...
Envisioning the Opportunities Presented by the Resource Revolution
By Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers
Conventional wisdom predicts stagnating economic growth, extreme resource depletion, accelerating commodity price inflation, and increasing pollution as consuming classes...
Succession Redefined: Family Business Succession in the 21st Century
By Richard Shrapnel
In this article – the final in the Succession Series by Baker Tilly International – the author considers how business succession has...
Better Be a Baller: The Coming Talent Gap May be the Opposite of What...
By Christopher Surdak
The concept of Big Data has rapidly emerged as web and telecoms-based networking has expanded on a global scale. Christopher Surdak explores...
Public-Value Exchanges – New Platforms for Matching Capital to Social Need
By William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan
New models of exchange are critical to the solution economy. They hold the secret to attracting capital of...
Crowdsourcing Disaster Response: Mobilizing Social Media for Urban Resilience
By Thérèse F. Tierney
As urban populations continue to expand worldwide, natural disasters are precipitating increased challenges to public health, welfare, and safety. Informal methods,...
Big Data Takes On Big Weather
By Djeevan Schiferli, IBM
Some European cities are turning to Big Data to not only predict the weather and its potential impact, but also to...
The Solution Economy: A New Way to Solve Social Problems
By William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan
In recent years an entire economy of societal problem solvers have emerged to tackle old problems in new...
The HUMAN Brand: How We Relate to People, Products and Companies
By Chris Malone & Susan T. Fiske
Social science research tells us that over 80 percent of our judgments can be predicted by fundamental warmth...
Leading towards Change of Ethics and Caring: Resisting Temptation and Reaping the Benefits
By Riane Eisler, Simon L. Dolan & Mario Raich
Businesses stand at a crossroads, and our current systems are not sustainable given the present economic...
Designing Inspiring Futures: Six Lessons of Sustainable Innovation
By Steven P. MacGregor & Tamara Carleton
Sustainability remains the key term for our future world. As Steven P. MacGregor and Tamara Carleton embark on...
Sustainable Business Model Innovation to Create Value in a World of Finite Resources
By Christophe Sempels & Jonas Hoffmann
We have jumped into an era of scarce resources. The related impacts will crescendo in the coming decades but...
First Look: Developing A New Map For Effective Business Succession in Family Businesses
By Richard Shrapnel
Family Business Succession is never a simple, straightforward endeavour. Besides the financial outcomes of the transition, the human needs and emotional involvement...
The 3 C’s of Growth Leadership: Culture, Capabilities, and Configuration
By George S. Day
George S. Day’s new book Innovation Prowess: Leadership Strategies for Accelerating Growth is an essential guide to building a framework for...
Building Ethical Business Cultures: BRIC by BRIC
By Alexandre Ardichvili, Douglas Jondle, Jack Wiley, Edgard Cornacchione, Jessica Li & Thomas Thakadipuram
As the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) continue...
How Sustainability and Carbon Footprint Reduction is Transforming the DNA of Leadership Key Trends...
By Nikos Avlonas
2012 introduced several significant developments in sustainability, most notably around the issues of climate change, risk management, and supply chain ethics.
June’s Rio+20...
Why Should Managers Be Socially Responsible?
By Antonio Argandoña
Why should managers put Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into practice? The so-called legal, ethical, social and business cases provide several reasons. In...
Innovation and Integration for an Environmentally Friendly Alberta
Alberta is committed to responsible energy production – because Albertans and Canadians expect nothing less.
Located in Western Canada, Alberta is a province rich with...
Will Innovation Save the Planet? How the principles of successful innovation could slow global...
By Morten Olsen
“Combating climate change requires urgent and ambitious action,” proclaimed the RIO+20 summit held in June 2012. Yet, strong commitments failed to materialize...
Ethics + Business: Ingredients for Great Leadership
By Claudia Peus and Armin Pircher Verdorfer
Imagine you have been asked to support a company with their employee survey. You have done your research,...
Board Responsibility under the FCPA
By Thomas R. Fox and Ryan Morgan
The nightmare of every corporate director is to wake up to find out that the company of the...
“Going, going…”: The long term sustainability impacts of short term focus
By Aileen Ionescu-Somers
Short-term thinking and acting has led to the current financial crisis, but has it precipitated a move to more long-term thinking in...
Developing Values in Business Education
By Nigel Duncan
This article considers how we might best prepare students for ethical business practice. It considers recent developments in evolutionary research and neuroscience...
The Future Quotient: Managing Seriously Long-Term Risks and Opportunities
By John Elkington
To succeed in the new world order, leaders need to switch from thinking about incremental change to transformational, systemic change.
An old order...
KYOCERA – a uniquely resource-efficient approach to product design
By Tracey Rawling Church
KYOCERA is a name that may not be familiar, but the company has quietly been designing and manufacturing resource efficient products...
Clyde Waterfront – A River of Opportunity
The scale, pace and diversity of the River Clyde’s regeneration has re-vitalised the area, creating numerous opportunities for businesses and the public to invest,...
Creating a Sustainable Society through Integrated Reporting Delivered via Cloud Computing
By Kyle Armbrester and Robert G. Eccles
A sustainable strategy is best reinforced through integrated reporting, a new management practice based on an integrated presentation...
Has the quality of our politicians declined or is the world becoming impossible to...
By Michael Cox
We live not just in ‘interesting times‘, but in quite extraordinary times where few in the West now appear to have much...
Leading with Ethics and Compliance
By Mark Meaney
As millions take to the streets in a global protest of corporate malfeasance, Dean Rich Lyons of the Haas School of Business...
Which Companies Benefit Most from UN Global Compact Membership?
By Jette Steen Knudsen
In this article I examine a key business question: which kinds of companies are most likely to benefit from joining international...
Understanding Cloud Computing Competition, Environment and Finance
By Federico Etro
Cloud computing allows firms to rent computing power and storage from cloud computing providers, and to pay on demand; this improves productivity...
The Need For Reputation Management Capabilities
By Daniel Diermeier
Maintaining a strong reputation is critical for a company’s sustained success. Yet, almost every day a new crisis makes the headlines. These...
Cloud computing and mobility: Adjusting in a New World – From Threat to Ally
By Christopher Clark
One of the most important CIO agenda items for 2012 is addressing and managing employee-owned mobile devices. This is where productivity, cost...
Timberland Investments: A risk analysis
By Klaus Biskup
Specialist knowledge is essential to maximizing timberland investment opportunities, and in particular, assessing the risks involved…
Over recent years timberland investments have gained...
The Rise and Consequences of Corporate Sustainability Reporting
By Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
In the last two decades a growing number of companies across sectors and geographies are communicating to their stakeholders...
Organizational health: The ultimate competitive advantage
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To sustain high performance, organizations must build the capacity to learn and keep changing over time.
The case for health...
Ecological Gold – A New Gold Standard
Anna Moltke-Huitfeldt, Jewellery in Life
Anna Moltke-Huitfeldt, Jewellery In Life, works with ecological gold from the Oro Verde (Green Gold) mining project in Colombia, a...
Invisible Capital and Why We Need to Democratize Entrepreneurial Opportunity
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Invisible capital is the toolkit of our skills, knowledge, networks, experiences and other resources, along with the set of assets we were...
Your four opportunities to capture customers who no longer care where they buy: The...
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Today, sellers live in a virtual glass houses – they are stripped naked by social media, vulnerable to the attitudes, positive...
The Sustainable Organisation – Driving value through organisational change
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Everyone who has the ambition, drive and competence to want the top job has to be alive...
Creating Abundant Organizations
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In “The Why of Work: How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations” (McGraw-Hill 2010), Dave and Wendy Ulrich set out...
The Economic Aftermath of the Recent Earthquake in Sendai, Japan
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Natural disasters potentially impact severely on economic dynamics — e.g. on production, prices, incomes, and employment — in the post-disaster period.
Over the...
Social Technologies in the Enterprise – Rising to the Challenge
By Evgeny Kaganer, Sandra Sieber and Neil Hair
“What we are looking at is how to build a collaborative platform hooked into business automation software....
Leadership and the Structure of Trust
By Paul R. Lawrence and Robert Porter Lynch
Trust enables everything to move faster more effortlessly,and with less conflict.
In the business world, executives soon...
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