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Elevate & Innovate

Here’s how to turn today’s problems into opportunities via values-led entrepreneurship and people-focused leadership, building a more hopeful future for all.

Think like an entrepreneur

These 8 qualities are necessary for next-level innovation.

David Katz: “Use one problem to solve another”

Reframing challenges as opportunities is a classic entrepreneurial move. Indeed, Plastic Bank was formed when plastic was reconceived — from waste into a valuable untapped resource.

Chetna Sinha: “Never give poor solutions to poor people”

Listen to the common people, what problems they have, and try to solve them. If you do so, you can change the world. That’s the experience of Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank, which has had life-changing impacts on rural women in India.

Busting the myths

Christoph Zott and Anneloes Raes debunk three persistent stereotypes about entrepreneurship, highlighting what it really takes to engage with the entrepreneurial process.

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Help or harm? For women, working remotely does both

Flexibility of location, communication and work times can improve work-life balance, but they also cause tensions, especially for women’s careers.

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Inertia remains the main management challenge in digital transformation

Follow these four practices to overcome inertia and embrace digital change.

Why firms pursue scientific publications, and when they avoid them

Peer-reviewed publications can be a road to attracting new investors — but also new competitors.

Why executives should think twice before changing industry

Dream job leaps come at a cost. Here’s why they’re worth it anyway.

Google’s Mitesh Agarwal: “When you embed AI into your workflows, it’s magic”

The tech expert explains how generative AI is transforming search, and why every business needs to embrace AI or get left behind.

Hiroshi Tomita: “I want to support companies going green”

After decades spent working on energy and infrastructure projects in Japan and Brazil, Hiroshi Tomita feels optimistic about recent market moves toward sustainability.

Making her voice heard

Sarah Buckley believes in the power of storytelling to connect people of diverse backgrounds.

The contexts putting your privacy at risk
By Tawfiq Alashoor

It’s time for new theories and better training about privacy. Read this before you click accept all.

Finding our shared roots when managing across cultures
By Alvaro San Martin

When managing cross-cultural teams, we need to understand our common humanity and appreciate our interconnected cultural heritage. A study of four non-Western cultural zones reveals how.

Artificial intelligence: between promise and adoption
IESE’s Sampsa Samila in conversation with Joshua Gans

We are in what we call “the between times,” where AI is doing lots of interesting things but not yet to the level of system-wide transformation. That takes time and requires new mindsets. But make no mistake: system change will come. Here’s what to watch for.