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  • On Tackling Decision Bias

    January 21, 2018, 11:41 PM IST

    By NICK HOFFMAN ET AL Business leaders are increasingly recognising the risk of bias in business decision-making. Insights from the fields of behavioural economics and cognitive psychology continually emerge to reveal that individuals and institutions…

    January 21, 2018, 11:41 PM IST

  • Managing Oneself

    January 19, 2018, 11:50 PM IST

    By Tasha Eurich Self-awareness seems to have become the latest management buzzword — and for good reason. Research suggests that when we see ourselves clearly, we are more confident and more creative. We make sounder…

    January 19, 2018, 11:50 PM IST

  • Capital issue

    January 18, 2018, 10:53 PM IST

    By Ravi Gupta Et Al After a series of record-breaking closes for US stocks and the prospect that lower corporate tax rates might continue to boost markets, investors had plenty to be excited about as…

    January 18, 2018, 10:53 PM IST

  • On design thinking

    January 14, 2018, 10:33 PM IST

    By Benedict Sheppard Et Al The importance of design is only increasing. Consumers have instant access to global marketplaces and ever-higher expectations of service. They no longer distinguish between physical and digital experiences. This makes…

    January 14, 2018, 10:33 PM IST

  • Digital Investing

    January 12, 2018, 10:37 PM IST

    By Aaron Klein Our psychology tends to sabotage us when we invest. Warren Buffett probably said it best, “Stocks are literally the only things that consumers refuse to buy when they’re at their cheapest and…

    January 12, 2018, 10:37 PM IST

  • Banking Digitally

    January 11, 2018, 10:33 PM IST

    By Jay Sidhu The US banking system is built upon giving access to people in a local way. Regulators believe that if you permit digital banking, it will be available primarily in populated centres and…

    January 11, 2018, 10:33 PM IST

  • On Working Capital

    January 8, 2018, 10:50 PM IST

    By Michael Birshan Et Al Perhaps it’s the energy company plant manager who decided to order several months more worth of spare parts than usual— tying up cash to avoid worrying so often about running…

    January 8, 2018, 10:50 PM IST

  • Managing with purpose

    January 7, 2018, 10:14 PM IST

    By Andy Eichfeld Et Al Identifying what managers should do on a regular basis is straightforward. If you ask any group of people about the best managers they’ve encountered, they’ll typically start describing the same…

    January 7, 2018, 10:14 PM IST

  • Managing yourself

    January 5, 2018, 11:02 PM IST

    By Marissa Sharif On a very broad level, I imagine how to help consumers reach their goals, like trying to lose weight or trying to save money. In these papers, I examine how incorporating a…

    January 5, 2018, 11:02 PM IST

  • Inclusive tax design

    January 4, 2018, 11:30 PM IST

    By BERT BRYS ET AL Recently, there have been calls to move away from a narrow focus on economic growth towards a greater emphasis on inclusiveness. These calls have been sparked by the rise in…

    January 4, 2018, 11:30 PM IST

  • Intangible resources

    January 2, 2018, 11:15 PM IST

    By Jonathan Haskel The nature of investment is important to all sorts of people, from bankers to managers. Economists are no exception: investment occupies a central place in much economic thought. Investment is what builds…

    January 2, 2018, 11:15 PM IST

  • Managing Digitally

    January 1, 2018, 11:55 PM IST

    By Albert Bollard Et Al Companies know where they want to go. They want to be more agile, quicker to react, and more effective. They want to deliver great customer experiences, take advantage of new…

    January 1, 2018, 11:55 PM IST

  • Managing Creativity

    December 31, 2017, 10:31 PM IST

    By Richard Hytner Some habits in business are harmful: chief executives can get high on the stale air of sycophancy. CFOs may not always know when to end the organisation’s drastic, cost-reducing diet, failing to…

    December 31, 2017, 10:31 PM IST

  • Thinking Through

    December 29, 2017, 11:53 PM IST

    A famous but possibly apocryphal tale about Albert Einstein is that he dreamed up the theory of relativity when riding his bicycle. Warren Buffett is on record as saying that he reads for six hours…

    December 29, 2017, 11:53 PM IST

  • Learning Curve

    December 27, 2017, 11:37 PM IST

    By LYNDA GRATTON Corporations and governments are beginning to understand that people want to be productive throughout their life. Many companies still seem to think that employing you is like marrying you and if you…

    December 27, 2017, 11:37 PM IST

  • Artificial Intelligence

    December 26, 2017, 11:18 PM IST

    By Frank Chen I’d argue that this is a golden age of AI investing. To put it in historical context, AI was invented in the mid-1950s at Dartmouth, and ever since then, we’ve basically had…

    December 26, 2017, 11:18 PM IST

  • Managing digitally

    December 25, 2017, 11:28 PM IST

    Building a culture where people feel comfortable trying things that might fail starts with senior leaders’ attitudes and role-modelling. They must break the status quo of hierarchical decision-making, overcome a focus on optimising rather than…

    December 25, 2017, 11:28 PM IST

  • Managing oneself

    December 23, 2017, 12:19 AM IST

    By Matt Plummer Lots of us spend our days developing strategic plans for our own companies, or helping clients do so, and yet fail to take a strategic approach to improving our own productivity. As…

    December 23, 2017, 12:19 AM IST

  • Managing strategy

    December 22, 2017, 12:23 AM IST

    We think of organisational health as the organisation’s ability to align around a common vision, execute against that vision effectively, and renew itself through innovation and creative thinking.… Companies that work on their health, we’ve…

    December 22, 2017, 12:23 AM IST

  • Welcome to the future

    December 20, 2017, 12:09 AM IST

    By W Brian Arthur Offshoring in the last few decades has eaten up physical jobs and whole industries, jobs that were not replaced. The current transfer of jobs from the physical to the virtual economy…

    December 20, 2017, 12:09 AM IST

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