How Public-private Partnerships Can Help Build Nations’ Brands

Why are PPPs increasingly a favored model for solving societal problems? They combine expertise and help stakeholders with branding, legitimacy and access.

Leadership

sustainability

Companies can boost employee engagement through involvement in sustainability issues, which offers a higher sense of purpose, notes this opinion piece.

How Companies Can Tap Sustainability to Motivate Staff

Mass Transformation: From Coal Mining to a Model for Sustainability
Building e-Governance in Africa: One Pioneering Company’s Approach
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Management

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Skill and hard work aren’t enough to propel your career ahead. Pay attention to office politics, too, argues a new book.

‘Workplace Poker’: How to Get Ahead by Managing Office Politics

The End of Annual Performance Reviews: Are the Alternatives Any Better?
Pushing Past Procrastination: How to Get Stuff Done
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Public Policy

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A proactive regulatory regime is critical in the run-up to 2021, when the auto industry expects to have a full-fledged launch of self-driving vehicles.

How Federal Policy Is Paving the Way for Driverless Cars

How Big Data Connects Bankers, Politics and Insider Trading
Why the Wells Fargo Hearing Raises More Questions Than It Answers
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Technology

Parkinsons

The Michael J. Fox Foundation found success using the latest customer analytics tools to better predict donor behavior and boost contributions.

How Customer Analytics Is Speeding the Cure for Parkinson’s

Choosing Your Candidate: There’s an App for That
Will Yahoo’s Data Breach Help Overhaul Online Security?
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Innovation

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Pets are more like people than you think. They suffer from emotional and mental issues too, says renowned vet Nicholas Dodman.

What’s My Dog Thinking? Getting Inside Fido’s Head

Assets vs. Access: A Digital Reality for Commercial Real Estate
Finding a Better Way to Value Companies in the Digital World
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Finance

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A debt boom in emerging markets, produced largely in the private sector, has analysts worried that a bubble is on the horizon.

Is Corporate Debt a Ticking Time Bomb in Latin America?

The Right Way to Take Risks — in Business and Life
How Uncertainty Impacts Funding for Microfinance Organizations
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Social Impact

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Water scarcity is a growing global problem and climate change is making it more challenging. Author Judith Schwartz offers some unexpected solutions.

How Water Scarcity Became a Worldwide Problem

How Partnerships Drive Health Care Innovation in Africa
A Practical Guide to Impact Investing
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Marketing

mcd

McDonald’s is jumping on the health-conscious bandwagon by using antibiotic-free chicken, removing preservatives and artificial colors, among other changes. Will it revive stagnant sales growth?

McDonald’s Healthy Meal: Will Consumers Bite?

Are You Collecting the Right Data? Lessons from American Apparel
Can Jet.com Fuel Wal-Mart’s Online Growth?
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