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Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries
www.wired.com Apr 17, 2019
The discovery of a new, sophisticated team of hackers spying on dozens of government targets is never good news. But one team of cyberspies has pulled off that scale of espionage with a rare and troubling trick, exploiting a weak link in the...
Shareholders Are Getting Serious About Sustainability
hbr.org Apr 17, 2019
Most corporate leaders understand that businesses have a key role to play in tackling urgent challenges such as climate change. But many of them also believe that pursuing a sustainability agenda runs counter to the wishes of their shareholders....
Recruiting
hbr.org Apr 15, 2019
Social media makes it easy to identify potential candidates for job openings, but that’s led companies to focus too much on “passive” candidates who aren’t looking to move—a strategy that hurts retention because internal candidates feel overlooked....
Preventing Busyness from Becoming Burnout
hbr.org Apr 15, 2019
For most of my working life, I’ve felt way too busy. Sometimes heart-stoppingly, wildly so — working long hours, missing out on family time or fun, and stressed beyond belief. And yet, a few years ago, as I was cleaning out my file cabinet before...
Pete Buttigieg Revived South Bend With Tech. Up Next: America
www.wired.com Apr 11, 2019
In downtown South Bend, Indiana, there’s an ugly concrete building where people can pay their water bill in person. When Pete Buttigieg first became mayor, in 2012, at age 29, this fact drove him insane. “How the hell is it that we’re still...
Rupert Murdoch, the NFL, and the Negotiation That Remade TV
hbr.org Apr 10, 2019
Barely a quarter century ago, in December 1993, a remarkable negotiation tectonically rocked the world of American football, with aftershocks that directly shaped today’s media landscape. This was the business deal that won Fox prime rights to...
Chinese scientists have put human brain genes in monkeys—and yes, they may be smarter
www.technologyreview.com Apr 10, 2019
Human intelligence is one of evolution’s most consequential inventions. It is the result of a sprint that started millions of years ago, leading to ever bigger brains and new abilities. Eventually, humans stood upright, took up the plow, and...
Why People — and Companies — Need Purpose
hbr.org Apr 9, 2019
Nicholas Pearce, clinical associate professor at Kellogg School of Management, says too many companies and individuals go about their daily business without a strong sense of purpose. He argues that companies that are not simply profit-driven are...
A Brief History of Porn on the Internet
www.wired.com Apr 9, 2019
One day in Boca Raton, Florida, in May 1996, Jordan Levinson, the owner of AIS Marketing, a start-up that brokered ads for adult websites, received a call from a man who wanted to benefit from the burgeoning underworld of the information...
The Case of the Endangered Entrepreneurs
hbr.org Apr 9, 2019
Fran Conklin, the CEO of First Line Software, could hear it in Charlie Smith’s voice—he had not had a nice day at the California headquarters of Microchannels, First Line’s major distributor. Smith had gone there to get Microchannels’s order for...
Jimmy Carter: The Statesman as CEO
hbr.org Apr 8, 2019
Jimmy Carter: The ability to accommodate the pressures of a competitive world is one of the prerequisites to success. During the difficult years of working one’s way to the top, leadership qualities are tested. There may be tens of thousands of...
Planning as Learning
hbr.org Apr 8, 2019
Some years ago, the planning group at Shell surveyed 30 companies that had been in business for more than 75 years. What impressed us most was their ability to live in harmony with the business environment, to switch from a survival mode when times...
Humanize Your Selling Strategy
hbr.org Apr 8, 2019
You are sitting in a conference room with your marketing manager and sales staff, engaged in reviewing the account of a key customer. To begin her analysis, the account executive opens up the file folder and reads aloud: Of course, the report also...
‘Change My View’ Reddit Community Launches Its Own Website
www.wired.com Apr 6, 2019
A few months shy of his high school graduation, Kal Turnbull came to a realization: Conversations on the internet are broken. The Scottish teenager had been looking for an online community for friendly debate, a forum whose participants would crack...
Hey Google, sorry you lost your ethics council, so we made one for you
www.technologyreview.com Apr 6, 2019
Well, that didn’t take long. After little more than a week, Google backtracked on creating its Advanced Technology External Advisory Council, or ATEAC—a committee meant to give the company guidance on how to ethically develop new technologies such...
Fusing data and design to supercharge innovation--in products and processes
www.mckinsey.com Apr 5, 2019
Often in business, the biggest breakthroughs come when organizations connect different, and seemingly disparate, ideas and approaches. Diversity of perspective has been shown time and again to foster fresh thinking to solve tough problems. Such is...
The Case of the Unequal Opportunity
hbr.org Mar 22, 2019
Laura Wollen, group marketing director for ARPCO, Inc., a manufacturer of small electrical tools and appliances, telephoned London from her Columbus, Ohio office. She was getting ready to recommend her best product manager, Charles Lewis, for a...
Globalizing the Rest of the World
hbr.org Mar 22, 2019
Globalization—the defining term for the economy of the 1990s—is today a misnomer. True, the economies of industrialized nations have become increasingly intertwined through “global trade” and “global products.” But globalization has largely left...
Tales from a Nonconformist Company
hbr.org Mar 21, 2019
In my experience, there are three perpetual business puzzles—change, people, and technology—and the trick is figuring out how to get them working for you instead of against you. My own approach is to try to control change—anticipate it, master it,...
Are You Taking Full Advantage of Your Job's Benefits and Perks?
hbr.org Mar 21, 2019
Are you taking full advantage of your job’s benefits and perks? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of PwC chief people officer Mike Fenlon. They talk through...
Facebook Stored Millions of Passwords in Plaintext—Change Yours Now
www.wired.com Mar 21, 2019
At this point, it’s difficult to summarize all of Facebook’s privacy, misuse, and security missteps in one neat description. And it just got even harder. On Thursday, following a report by Krebs on Security, Facebook acknowledged a bug in its...
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