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Figure out the right hybrid work strategy for your company

15 June 2021, Harvard Business Review, US, Mark Mortensen. As leaders grapple with how to return their teams to the office, they face an additional challenge when discussing hybridity: What they think is a single discussion is in fact three different discussions in...

Employees are lonelier than ever. Here’s how employers can help

9 June 2021, HBR, US, Mark Mortensen. Loneliness comes with many negative side effects, and rates of loneliness at work have risen thanks to the pandemic. While increasing face-to-face interaction may be beneficial for some aspects of work, it’s not enough to create...

FinTech scale-up Pleo appoints CRO

3 June 2021, London News Today, India, Arun Mani MBA'05D. FinTech Scale-up Pleo has appointed Arun Mani as Chief Revenue Officer. Joined from Freshworks Europe, Mani brings over eight years of experience leading and growing successful start-ups. As President of...

Why do innovation outposts fail?

1 June 2021, European Business Review, UK, Felipe Monteiro. The steps multinationals can take to create a brokerage environment that fosters innovation. "Unable to act on novel ideas themselves, executives at an innovation outpost may feel like hunting dogs because...

Three ways digitalisation changes corporate responsibility

28 May 2021, Forbes India, N. Craig Smith and Leena Lankoski. The fourth industrial revolution changes the 'who', 'whom' and 'what' of corporate responsibility. When a virus brought the world to its knees, the digital economy got a shot of adrenaline. Remote working,...

How SoftBank taught the market to love lossmaking startups

26 May 2021, Nikkei Asia, Japan, Claudia Zeisberger. A slew of IPOs may vindicate Masayoshi Son's growth-at-all-costs view. TOKYO -- A few years after Bom Suk Kim dropped out of Harvard Business School to launch what would eventually become Coupang, South Korea's...

All hands on deck for the circular economy

25 May 2021, Quality Digest, US, Luk Van Wassenhove & Benjamin Kessler. The key to achieving zero waste is a systems approach where all stakeholders work together toward the same ends. Suddenly, supply chains are in the spotlight. The practical details of how...

The 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50: How we chose the list of companies

25 May 2021, CNBC, David Spiegel. With 12 public exits and four pending SPAC mergers, competition for the 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50 was as wide open as ever. For the fifth straight year, a record number of nominations were submitted:1,565 start-ups aiming to make the...

How to tell the age of an innovation

24 May 2021, Business A.M. Live, Nigeria, Henrich Greve. All innovations make the journey from “eureka” to “meh”. But they don’t do so according to fixed rules. Innovation never sleeps. It’s a relentless pursuit of the new and different, spurred by the awareness that...