Plenty of shoppers say they prefer sustainable products over ordinary ones. Yet for consumer product companies, tapping into this green demand can prove tricky. One challenge: establishing that ...

Yet getting people to adopt them was difficult. First, there was the upfront cost; second, using them to cook family meals meant asking people to alter what they were used to doing. What Van Kirk ...

Europe’s leading companies now have proportionately more CDOs (42%) than North America’s (38%), driven by appointments in the UK, Switzerland, and Germany. We believe this is likely due to Europe’s ...

Some definitions will be clearly outlined in the reporting standards or applicable laws. Where they are not, some amount of judgment will be necessary. If a company were to disclose every single ...

According to Albert Einstein, asking questions should not be about getting answers, but rather about solving problems. And to solve the wicked problems of our uncertain world, leaders must resist the ...

Ram Periyagaram advises clients on strategy, cyber risk, and technology related to data and analytics, digital identity, and access management. Based in Chennai, he is a partner with PwC India.

Across key societal institutions, such as courtrooms, classrooms, and newsrooms, we have an unspoken contract that says only lawyers, teachers, and journalists are entitled to ask questions. In a ...

A version of this article appeared in the Spring 2022 issue of strategy+business. Ahmed Galal Ismail was impressed by the level of employee engagement in Majid al Futtaim Properties, the owner of the ...

A version of this article appeared in the Spring 2022 issue of strategy+business. Think for a moment about all the colleagues in your immediate circle, whether they are your peers or people you manage ...

Old-fashioned engagement surveys provide little or no meaningful insight into reward strategies because they focus on a point-in-time sentiment rather than a gauge of employee preferences. Companies ...

A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2021 issue of strategy+business. The first time I visited Google’s sprawling corporate headquarters was to attend a retreat for its human resources ...

A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2021 issue of strategy+business. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just take a simplicity vaccine that would immunize us from the chaos in our world?