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Transgender, Gender-Fluid, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Employees Deserve Better Policies
hbr.org Nov 20, 2020
We’re in the midst of a fundamental transformation in how society thinks about gender. With transgender people on the cover of magazines, prominent celebrities challenging gender norms in fashion, and the mainstreaming of people who identify as...
Are Covid Patients Gasping ‘It Isn’t Real’ As They Die?
wired.com Nov 19, 2020
A desperate, outraged Twitter thread from a South Dakota emergency room nurse went viral last weekend, landing its author a live interview on CNN. “When I read some of your tweets, my jaw dropped,” the host told Jodi Doering, referring to her...
Mastercard’s Former Chief Diversity Officer Donna Johnson: Advancing Company Culture
hbr.org Nov 18, 2020
DONNA JOHNSON: One Friday afternoon, several of us got together to meet with a senior executive. And there were five women and one man – the man was white and the women were all women of color. And we’re laughing, and we’re enjoying the...
Larry Brilliant Says We’ll Beat Covid—After We Go Through Hell
wired.com Nov 18, 2020
Dickensian. That’s a term that rolled off epidemiologist Larry Brilliant’s tongue when I spoke to him in one more marathon interview this past weekend. He was not referring to the horrific descriptions of human suffering in the celebrated 19th...
Firing Christopher Krebs Crosses a Line—Even for Trump
wired.com Nov 17, 2020
Rather than engage with the department’s bumbling or its most controversial policies, Krebs kept his head down at CISA and until the election steered clear of controversy, building the agency into a rare area of bipartisan pride and comity. Krebs,...
Should You Choose Your Passion Over a Paycheck?
hbr.org Nov 17, 2020
Turns out, it’s about a year after they start. Some people might attribute this to the myth that we have to spend at least one year in a role before moving on to something better (at least if we want to look like responsible human beings to future...
The race to get Georgia’s 23,000 17-year-olds registered to vote
technologyreview.com Nov 15, 2020
On November 13, Michael Giusto turned 18 years old. Becoming an adult is always a big moment in any teenager’s life. But Giusto’s landmark birthday comes with added responsibility. Thanks to a quirk in Georgia’s laws that requires at least 50% of...
Is the Pandemic Making You Rethink Your Commute?
hbr.org Nov 12, 2020
ALISON BEARD: And I’m Alison Beard. Work can be frustrating, but it doesn’t have to be. We don’t need to let the conflicts get us down. DAN MCGINN: That’s where Dear HBR: comes in. We take your questions, look at the research, talk to the experts,...
AI is wrestling with a replication crisis
technologyreview.com Nov 12, 2020
Last month Nature published a damning response written by 31 scientists to a study from Google Health that had appeared in the journal earlier this year. Google was describing successful trials of an AI that looked for signs of breast cancer in...
Covid Winter Is Coming. Could Humidifiers Help?
wired.com Nov 12, 2020
By now, you’ve probably got your coronavirus risk-minimizing routine down pat. Mask? Check. Social distance? Acquired. Spending time indoors with people outside your pod? Hard pass. You wash your hands. (But maybe not your groceries.) And that’s...
Rethinking the On-Demand Workforce
hbr.org Nov 10, 2020
In this era of chronic skills shortages, rapid automation, and digital transformation, companies are confronting a growing talent problem, one that has the potential to become a strategic bottleneck. How can they find people with the right skills...
The Vulnerable Can Wait. Vaccinate the Super-Spreaders First
wired.com Nov 10, 2020
He was one of 750,000 people, give or take, who passed through Grand Central Terminal that day. He worked as an attorney in a high-rise on 42nd Street that had direct access to the station, where trains departed every few minutes to 122 towns in...
Joe Biden Won—and Not Because of Voter Fraud
wired.com Nov 7, 2020
A bitter campaign season marked by extreme ideological disputes and an unprecedented pandemic is now over. On Saturday morning, the Associated Press and other media outlets declared Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 United States presidential...
What to Say When You’re Reaching Out to Someone on LinkedIn
hbr.org Nov 2, 2020
If networking isn’t at the top of your to-do list, it should be — unless you’re Beyoncé. For those of us who aren’t Queen Bey, cultivating your network offers many benefits: greater learning opportunities, broader career prospects, access to...
Success, Stress, and Money: Lessons from a Financial Therapist
hbr.org Oct 30, 2020
MORRA AARONS-MELE: If you had more money, do you think your anxiety would go away? It’s a question I often pose to myself. You see, money is my thing. My biggest hang-up. The issue I ruminate over and fixate on. It’s a huge issue in my marriage, my...
Why Entrepreneurship Is So Hard
hbr.org Oct 29, 2020
Last week, a Facebook memory from six years ago popped into my feed. I was the first female keynote speaker at the Swiss Education Group of Hotel schools and, in the photo, I was standing in front of 1,500 students from seven Swiss hotel schools at...
Safe Workplaces
hbr.org Oct 29, 2020
DAN MCGINN: Welcome to Dear HBR: from Harvard Business Review. I’m Dan McGinn. ALISON BEARD: And I’m Alison Beard. Work can be frustrating, but it doesn’t have to be. We don’t need to let the conflicts get us down. DAN MCGINN: That’s where Dear...
How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
hbr.org Oct 28, 2020
Apple is well known for its innovations in hardware, software, and services. Thanks to them, it grew from some 8,000 employees and $7 billion in revenue in 1997, the year Steve Jobs returned, to 137,000 employees and $260 billion in revenue in...
4 Ways Men Can Support Their Female Colleagues — Remotely
hbr.org Oct 27, 2020
Everyday gender biases and barriers remain a persistent problem in office culture. But men with a keen awareness of how women experience the workplace and how gender inequities torpedo profitability and mission outcomes can actively deploy...
Our Work-from-Anywhere Future
hbr.org Oct 26, 2020
Before 2020 a movement was brewing within knowledge-work organizations. Personal technology and digital connectivity had advanced so far and so fast that people had begun to ask, “Do we really need to be together, in an office, to do our work?” We...
What Health Care Can Teach Other Industries About Preventing Burnout
hbr.org Oct 26, 2020
The first week of business school was an introduction to a world of new concepts. Just as the foundational coursework was coming to an end, we took on a daylong deep dive into case studies examining ways of ensuring corporate wellbeing. As a...
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