Robert W. Goldfarb: How Young People Can Help Revitalize Aging Companies
CEOs and Millennials don’t see eye to eye, but their future success may depend on joining forces.
Veteran fighter pilots refer to Millennials in their squadron as SNAPs, Sensitive New Age Pilots. They’re seen as eager for awards pilots aspire to — assignment to Top Gun school, flyovers at sporting events, promotion — but reluctant to spend hours sharpening the skills leading to coveted duties and advancement.
Juliet Garcia: It’s Never Too Early to Learn Engineering
Engineering is an essential skill for everyone to learn. So how do we get kids to try it?
We’ve all heard the statistic — nine of the top 10 highest-paying college degrees are in engineering fields.
Charles Feinstein: 3 Breakthroughs That Can Help Bring Power to Over a Billion People
Innovation in energy storage, smart grids and mini-grids hold the potential of improving access to power for billions of people around the world.
Lorraine Stomski and Jessie Leisten: What 3 Qualities Do Top Companies Have in Common?
In today’s fast-changing global economy, top companies can stay above the fray through an unrelenting focus on talent and leadership.
Organizations continue to reel from the aftershocks of the global recession. Economic, technological, regulatory and social challenges across global boundaries form a “perfect storm” of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. How can companies navigate this and still stay on top?
Deborah Kilpatrick: Bringing Digital Health Back to the Future
Digital health products hold great promise to transform healthcare but need to return to the roots of evidence-best medicine to reach their full potential.
A new breed of disruptive digital health products is entering the market, claiming to be better, cheaper and easier to use than traditional alternatives. Digital technologies are rapidly revolutionizing the healthcare ecosystem, allowing patients and physicians to interact anytime, anywhere.
Perspectives
Teaching Our Kids to Be Job Creators — Q&A with 1776 Co-founder Donna Harris
The co-founder of the D.C. incubator talks about the importance of encouraging people to think the “entrepreneurial way.”
There are myriad problems worth addressing in the world, with just as many potential solutions. While the not-for-profit model is commonly used to tackle these kinds of far-reaching issues, there’s another, more effective means of attacking them, argues Donna Harris.
Anne Kim: Can Boomers and Millennials Save America’s Startup Engine?
The Kauffman Foundation’s Jason Wiens talks about how these two demographic groups will chart the future course of entrepreneurship.
Unemployment rates are dropping, consumer confidence is growing, and the economy is finally picking up steam. Yet there’s a soft spot in the nascent recovery: the rate of new business creation.
John Paul Soltesz: Marketing to Millennials — Coming of Age, Delayed
Millennial consumer habits don’t represent a cultural change, as much as a time shift.
Concocting the special sauce for marketing to Millennials has become a major preoccupation of professionals across the spectrum — consumer goods companies, home builders, financial planners. Current conventional wisdom holds that as this generation ages, it will consume products and services much differently than previous generations, suggesting businesses would need an entirely original marketing plan to win their attention.
Amy Myers Jaffe: How to Beat OPEC — Take the Highway to Natural Gas-Powered Trucking
With OPEC defending its oil market share, the U.S. should lock in the advantages of a healthy natural gas sector. Piloting corridors for LNG-fueled trucking would be a promising start.
Reimagining the 10-K — Disclosure as a Tool for Good Governance
With a graphic, layered, and more forward-looking approach to the annual SEC filing, GE is seeking to create a more engaging, effective form of disclosure for its shareholders.
Compared to the release of earnings, the annual 10-K release is traditionally an anticlimactic event for publicly traded companies. The filing generally consists of lengthy, dense narrative that is notoriously hard to understand, and often overwhelms the average investor.