In step with global trends, Indian millennials' values are changing. Being a good parent and helping others in need are their top priorities, rather than having successful careers.

Sangeeta Tanwar · Quartz 04 Oct 2019

India

Why India can show us how to achieve growth with purpose

India is one of the world’s fastest-growing large economies and aims to grow to a $5 trillion economy by 2024. But its corporations also have an opportunity to become leaders in growth wi...

Saurine Doshi 04 Oct 2019

Values

Why relationships have the biggest impact on our health

Loneliness, stress and kindness: professor of psychiatry, Kelli Harding, explains the intangible factors that make up good health.

Knowledge @Wharton · Knowledge@Wharton 01 Oct 2019

Workforce and Employment

Managers, technology and how to improve productivity

While different firms try to attract workers with different levels of ability, managerial processes or talent are often overlooked. However, this is the effect of more structured manageri...

Daniela Scur · LSE Business Review 18 Sep 2019

Canada

Canadian nature lovers have crowdfunded millions to protect an area of pristine wilderness

The campaign to save 2,000 acres of forest on the British Columbia Coast hit $2.3 million in just three months.

Katharine Rooney 16 Sep 2019

Values

Three distinct personality traits drive entrepreneurs to take risks

Despite entrepreneurs idolized in working environments and pursued by policymakers, are their personality traits predictors of venture success?

Margaret Dalton, Sari Pekkala Kerr, and William Kerr · VoxEU 09 Sep 2019

Gender Parity

This is how parental leave policies impact the gender gap

A study has found that 40% of women experience one career interruption within ten years of graduation while only 10% of men experience the same. While some of this is down to personal cho...

Yukiko Asai · VoxEU 06 Sep 2019

Africa

I went blind at age 5, but managed to stay in education. We must ensure 93 million children with disabilities get the same chance

Failing to enrol disabled youth into the education isn't just a human rights travesty, it makes no economic sense.

Yetnebersh Nigussie 05 Sep 2019

Behavioural Sciences

A physicist developed a simple formula for achieving long-term success

The equation suggests that success is a combination of a good idea and the talent and skill needed to bring that idea to fruition.

Andy Kiersz · Business Insider 05 Sep 2019

Future of Economic Progress

Economics needs a major rethink – and medicine could offer a good model

Blaming economists for the world's ills has become customary, when public policy should be the discipline under fire. However, if the same structure that is used at teaching hospitals is ...

Ricardo Hausmann · Project Syndicate 03 Sep 2019

Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Boardroom warriors: how CEOs are becoming champions of change

Leaders from the EMEA region – including Africa – are more motivated by long-term considerations, including social change, over profit. They will be in more demand than ever as we face up...

Julie Linn Teigland 01 Sep 2019

Workforce and Employment

Why building a community for employees can create a thriving workplace

In an interview with the Knowledge@Wharton, executive coach Jerry Colonna reveals how employees' well-being can contribute to an organisation's financial success, by sharing his own journ...

Knowledge @Wharton · Knowledge@Wharton 30 Aug 2019