Many students across America can expect to read or listen to speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. during Black History Month, but in Oakland, Calif., they go beyond just reading. In the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Oratorical Festival, students perform those speeches, as well as poetry and monologues they wrote, and compete for...Read More

In 1996, Hema Hattangady took over as the CEO of Conzerv, an embattled family-owned firm based in Bengaluru that manufactured digital energy meters. Over the next twelve years, she grew it to a Rs 100 crore company, which has become the country’s largest energy-management company. In 2009, the company was acquired by Schneider Electric, and Hema Hattangady...Read More

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) – Leaders of native tribes in Brazil issued a rallying call to protect the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous people from what they called the “genocide, ethnocide and ecocide” planned by the country’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. FILE PHOTO: Brazil’s indigenous chief Raoni Metuktire arrives for a meeting with politicians...Read More

As we head into the final days of 2019, it’s a good time to look back at the research, perspectives, and insights that resonated most deeply with readers this year, with our collection of most-read articles. What does this collection say about how our readers are thinking about business challenges and the practice of management?...Read More

“There’s an old saying, ‘Things move at the speed of trust,’” Brian Chesky, co-founder and chief executive of Airbnb, said on Wednesday at The New York Times DealBook conference. “Well, how could you possibly trust something on a platform if you don’t even know if it’s true?” If there is one singular issue that defines...Read More

Article (PDF-766KB) Seven years ago, we unveiled research highlighting the existence of innovation’s eight “essentials”—a collection of attributes and behaviors that appeared to underpin superior innovation performance. 1 1. The eight essentials themselves comprise some 100 specific practices that are critical to innovation-led growth. For more, see Marc de Jong, Nathan Marston, and Erik Roth,...Read More

That’s the conventional wisdom: improve one part at a time, then move to the next, methodically and consistently. But it’s clear that this traditional view, with stability as the primary value, is increasingly wrong. It misses the intersections between the parts, which are where value tends to be lost. Research by our colleagues (see Kevin...Read More

A small but devoted group of Chinese developers are trying to bring accessible games to the country’s visually impaired. Read the full article on: World Economic Forum | Agenda | podcastsRead More