Connecting the dots in an uncertain world
NYU’s Christian Busch makes the case that serendipity is a skill, resulting from a mindset that allows you to see and act on opportunities in seemingly unrelated facts or events.
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A CEO who won’t take the gloves off
Philip Roth’s American Pastoral measures the gulf between a careful business leader and his radical daughter.
Delivering on your promises
In The Ends Game, professors Marco Bertini and Oded Koenigsberg explain how companies can help their customers meet goals by rewriting the rules of commerce.
What if every job seeker got a living-wage job?
Economist Pavlina R. Tcherneva demolishes the idea that there is an optimal rate of unemployment and makes a timely case for a national job guarantee.
Mutiny amid the bounty
What captains of industry can learn from captains in the great age of sail.
The sinking fortunes of the shipping box
In his new book, journalist and historian Marc Levinson describes the limits of long supply chains and the ways in which new trade routes are forming.
How fiction can help us imagine the future
In an age of big data, artificial intelligence, and continual forecasting, fiction can help us navigate uncertainty by opening our eyes to a wide range of scenarios.
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Management lessons of The True Believer
A 20th-century working-class philosopher has a lot to teach modern workers — and managers — about finding meaning in life, and on the job.
Fit-for-context leadership
Hult International Business School professor Amit Mukherjee argues that new leadership practices are needed for a digital era.
Summer reading 2020
For those who want to slow down and still keep up.
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A dramatic example of adopting best practices
George Bernard Shaw’s 1905 play Major Barbara, the best stage drama written about business, has lessons that resonate with today’s audiences.
Restoring faith in humanity?
In his new book, historian Rutger Bregman argues that people are actually fundamentally good.
Making experiments pay
In The Power of Experiments, Harvard Business School professors Michael Luca and Max Bazerman provide an overview of the applications, promise, and perils of corporate experimentation.
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The general wisdom of Ulysses S. Grant
A serial failure up until the Civil War, Grant had a talent for leadership that secured the Union. His strategy and style still offer valuable lessons for today’s executives.
The business of America, in a nutshell
In his new book, American Business History, Walter A. Friedman offers a highly concise history of free enterprise in the United States.
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No success without succession
The 1952 novel Executive Suite tells us what it takes to fill the shoes of an icon.
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Tales of the original Industrial Revolution
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Victorian-era novel North and South has a great deal to teach us about the enduring tensions between progress and prosperity, industry and labor, and rural and urban life.
Too much work, too little time
In the new book Overload, professors Erin L. Kelly and Phyllis Moen report the results of a rigorous five-year field experiment in giving employees more control over their jobs.
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