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Giving Women a Seat at the Economic Table

Jane Nelson Harvard Kennedy School
July 01, 2014
“A woman is economically empowered when she has both the ability to succeed and advance economically and the power to make and act on economic decisions.” — International Center for Research on Women, 2011.
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Blueprint for Business: a New Social Compact

Richard Edelman Edelman
June 30, 2014
The Great Recession of 2008-9 had profound consequences for business and government alike. Long-established companies such as GM and AIG were forced into bankruptcy. Euro-zone nations were compelled to bail out member states including Greece and Portugal. But the longest lasting effect of the near-catastrophe may well be the erosion of trust in institutions.
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Study Debunks Ex-Im Bank as Favoring Big Business

June 27, 2014
A new study counters criticism of the Export-Import bank, the official credit export agency of the U.S., as favoring large business with data showing the bank overwhelmingly supports small and mid-size businesses.
The report comes at a crucial time for the bank; its fate now lays in the hands of Congress, as it decides whether or not to renew its charter set to expire in September.
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Does Your Innovation Plan Make You Disruption-Ready?

Ariel Avitan Signals Intelligence Group
June 26, 2014
Can you create a bulletproof plan for innovation in a rapidly changing world? Most executives recognize that “planned, structured and repeatable processes” have enabled sustained and successful innovations at companies like Apple, Google, Samsung, P&G, and Nike.
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The Worst Brings Out the Best

Andy Von Eschenbach Samaritan Health Initiatives
June 25, 2014
The 20th Century was replete with natural and human disasters that caused society to devote itself at all costs to make the world a better place. Most noble among these efforts was our nation’s commitment to rid the world of the tragic disease called cancer.
By 1970, cancer was terrorizing almost every American family as it inflicted terrible suffering and for most patients an almost certain death sentence. Its solution was either unknown or, when known, associated with dire consequences. Cancer’s toll on society went beyond human suffering to threaten economic disaster.
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Is Job-Hopping a Driver of Regional Growth?

Mark Muro Brookings
June 24, 2014
What if “job-hopping” isn’t just a hot topic for millennial happy hours but a necessary dynamic of regional economies?
What if the recent agreement by Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe to pay $325 million to settle claims that they colluded to limit job-hopping only reflects how much is at stake here?
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Getting Past the Barriers to Collaboration

Doug Williams Innovation Excellence
June 23, 2014
Collaboration is quickly becoming a contender for buzzword of the year. The term is so widely used when identifying important tools for innovation, but its importance in the business world is still difficult to deny. For successful 21st century global enterprises, collaboration among employees and with external partners and customers is critical.
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The Rise of Emerging Market Startups

Ryan Kaiser Booz Allen Hamilton
June 20, 2014
Startups are playing a larger role in almost every major company’s innovation strategy.
According to the 2014 GE Global Innovation Barometer, which surveyed 3,200 innovation executives in businesses of various sizes and industries across the globe, 85 percent said their companies were working on strategies to create partnerships with startups and entrepreneurs.
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Be Bold

Beth Comstock GE
June 19, 2014
I spend a lot of time thinking about how to be bold, aspiring to be bold, fretting over not being bold enough – not just clever, smart or imaginative, but audacious.
The tough part is that the world keeps shifting and taking away the firm ground that would allow us to take action. The rise of new technologies, the flood of analytics and data and the accelerating speed of the global enterprise can complicate decision making for even the most confident executive. So, how do we stay bold?
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Innovative Companies Move Back to the City

Bruce Katz Brookings Institution
Julie Wagner Brookings Institution
June 18, 2014
Everyone knows that Google’s headquarters are in suburban Mountain View, California. What’s less known is where the tech giant is expanding—into cities like Pittsburgh and Cambridge, where Google can be close to major research universities like Carnegie Mellon and MIT, and nearby innovative, R&D-intensive firms.
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