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March 22, 2018, 11:15 PM IST
By Maura Thomas Your attention determines the experiences you have, and the experiences you have determinethe life you live. Or, said another way: you must control your attention to control your life. To be consistently…
March 22, 2018, 11:15 PM IST
March 20, 2018, 11:16 PM IST
By Erik Lundh Recently, the popular narrative surrounding international trade has involved nationalism, protectionism and trade wars. It may, therefore, come as a surprise to hear that global trade has been experiencing something of a…
March 20, 2018, 11:16 PM IST
March 19, 2018, 11:39 PM IST
The policies that set into motionan upward spiral in well-being are making sure kids have enough education so they can read, and educating women, especially mothers. [Those] mothers have fewer children who are better educated,…
March 19, 2018, 11:39 PM IST
March 16, 2018, 11:14 PM IST
By JAANA REMES ET AL Broad-based income growth has diverged from productivity growth, because declining labour share of income and rising inequality are eroding median wage growth, and the rapidly rising costs of housing and…
March 16, 2018, 11:14 PM IST
March 9, 2018, 11:22 PM IST
We need to address the real problem: the “social side of strategy”, arising from corporate politics, individual incentives and human biases. How? With evidence. We examined publicly available information on dozens of variables for thousands…
March 9, 2018, 11:22 PM IST
March 5, 2018, 11:41 PM IST
Lending institutions know that risk-based segmentation of their outstanding loans does not in itself help get their money back.
March 5, 2018, 11:41 PM IST
March 2, 2018, 11:36 PM IST
By Maya Bernstein By applying design thinking, a concept popularised by IDEO founder David Kelley and Stanford’s design school, which was first applied to the design of physical objects, then other products, such as technological…
March 2, 2018, 11:36 PM IST
March 1, 2018, 10:53 PM IST
By Jaana Remes Et Al To incentivise broad-based change, companies need competitive pressure to perform better, a business environment and institutions that enable change and creative destruction, and access to infrastructure and talent. Demand may…
March 1, 2018, 10:53 PM IST
February 23, 2018, 10:45 PM IST
By Jaana Remes Et Al Nine years into recovery from the Great Recession, labour-productivity-growth rates remain near historic lows across many advanced economies. Productivity growth is crucial to increase wages and living standards, and helps…
February 23, 2018, 10:45 PM IST
February 22, 2018, 11:15 PM IST
By Andrew Lo The connections between evolution and economics are not new. Economics may have even inspired evolutionary theory. The British economist Thomas Malthus deeply influenced both Charles Darwin and Darwin’s close competitor, Alfred Russel…
February 22, 2018, 11:15 PM IST
February 19, 2018, 10:38 PM IST
By Wouter Aghina Et Al Why do established companies struggle to become more agile? No small part of the difficulty comes from a false trade-off: the assumption by executives that they must choose between much-needed…
February 19, 2018, 10:38 PM IST
February 16, 2018, 11:43 PM IST
We have 9,000 sq km of waterlogged, unproductive land that could be converted into profitable fish farms.
February 16, 2018, 11:43 PM IST
February 14, 2018, 10:39 PM IST
By Chris Bradley Et Al Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman described in his book Thinking, Fast and Slow the “inside view” that often emerges when we focus only on the case at hand. This view leads people…
February 14, 2018, 10:39 PM IST
February 13, 2018, 11:32 PM IST
The more that we pay attention to that, the more that we are exercising our brain and changing the structure and the functioning of it.
February 13, 2018, 11:32 PM IST
February 9, 2018, 10:08 PM IST
By Sanjay Pulipaka The Maldives is in the midst of a political crisis. Last week, the Supreme Court of Maldives called for the release of nine opposition leaders and the reinstatement of 12 legislators. President Abdulla Yameen responded by arresting…
February 9, 2018, 10:08 PM IST
February 8, 2018, 11:22 PM IST
Gurcharan Das There was a time when I used to believe with Diogenes the Cynic that “I am a citizen of the world,” and I used to strut about feeling that a “blade of grass…
February 8, 2018, 11:22 PM IST
February 2, 2018, 10:42 PM IST
By Tim Koller Ask CEOs if the ability to increase profit margins year after year would help their companies compete more successfully against peers, and you’re likely to hear are sounding yes.… At some point,…
February 2, 2018, 10:42 PM IST
January 29, 2018, 11:00 PM IST
By Paul Willmott Et Al The processing power of today’s smartphones is several thousand times greater than that of the computers that landed a man on the moon in 1969. These devices connect the majority…
January 29, 2018, 11:00 PM IST
January 26, 2018, 11:09 PM IST
By Walter Frick Nobel-prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman has said that overconfidence is the bias he’d eliminate first if he had a magic wand. It’s ubiquitous, particularly among men, the wealthy, and even experts. Overconfidence is…
January 26, 2018, 11:09 PM IST
January 22, 2018, 10:25 PM IST
By Richard Dobbs et al Progressively cheaper natural resources underpinned 20thcentury global economic growth. But the 21st century could be different. Indeed, over the last 10 years, rapid economic development in emerging markets has wiped…
January 22, 2018, 10:25 PM IST
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