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The Subtle Art of Saying No
hbr.org Sep 22, 2020
ALISON BEARD: Welcome to HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Alison Beard. Whether you’re a CEO, a midlevel manager or even an intern, I’ll bet that a lot of your workday is about fielding requests. People asking you to weigh in on a...
Start Stopping Faster
hbr.org Sep 22, 2020
Business executives could learn a lot from cheetahs, Earth’s most agile land animals. Though their ancestors ran only about 20 miles per hour, today’s cats can accelerate from zero to 60 within three seconds — faster than a Corvette Twin Turbo or a...
AI Should Change What You Do — Not Just How You Do It
hbr.org Sep 21, 2020
Few leaders would dispute the fact that business today is driven by data and smart algorithms. Yet, rather than real digital transformation, many instead pursue digital incrementalism, using automation to cut costs or, worse — cut jobs. Doing so...
The Cheating Scandal That Ripped the Poker World Apart
wired.com Sep 21, 2020
Mike Postle was on another tear. The moonfaced 42-year-old was deep into a marathon poker session at Stones Gambling Hall, a boxy glass-and-steel casino wedged between Interstate 80 and a Popeye's in suburban Sacramento. The September 21, 2019,...
How Green Is Your Software?
hbr.org Sep 18, 2020
Without doubt, software is the backbone of virtually all the intelligent solutions designed to support the environment. It’s critical, for example, in efforts to tackle deforestation and reduce emissions. In many instances, however, software is...
In a K-Shaped Recovery, Nonprofits Should Lean on Major Donors
hbr.org Sep 17, 2020
More than six months into the pandemic, those that provide direct social services are finding themselves overwhelmed by increased demand, because vastly larger numbers of families now need food, shelter, health care, and other forms of basic...
America’s Top Science Journal Has Had It With Trump
wired.com Sep 16, 2020
With an archive that goes back to 1880 and a reputation for publishing world-changing research, the journal Science is the apex predator of academic publishing. Getting an article past its gatekeepers and peer reviewers can make a researcher's...
Is Happiness at Work Really Attainable?
hbr.org Sep 15, 2020
BRIAN KENNY: When the Puritans transplanted themselves from England to America in the 17th century, they brought with them the belief that a life devoted to hard work was the key to unlocking the gates of heaven where a true happiness could be...
If You've Just Had Covid, Exercise Might Not Be Good for You
wired.com Sep 15, 2020
And these problems don’t just affect athletes. A larger observational study conducted in Germany earlier this summer followed 100 non-athlete Covid-19 patients and found lingering heart inflammation and other cardiac abnormalities in 78 of them....
Own
hbr.org Sep 14, 2020
When I began working at Sustainalytics in 2008, after completing an MBA in finance and sustainability, the business of rating companies on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance was very much a niche field. Our company had...
I Tried 4 Tactics to Get a Better Night’s Sleep
hbr.org Sep 11, 2020
I love sleep. And I can fall asleep just about anywhere: cars, airplanes, couches, floors. The only exception is potentially haunted houses. It’s not just the action of sleeping that I love. I have always been fascinated by the study of sleep,...
How to Get Your Resume Noticed (And Out of the Trash Bin)
hbr.org Sep 11, 2020
How long does it take a recruiter to decide if you’re right for a job? It’s actually around seven seconds, according to eye-tracking research. To put that into perspective, close your eyes and take two deep breaths. That’s the time, on average,...
Meet This Year’s WIRED25: People Who Are Making Things Better
wired.com Sep 9, 2020
When Sartre said hell is other people, he wasn’t living through 2020. Right now, other people are the only thing between us and species collapse. Not just the people we occasionally encounter behind fugly masks—but the experts and innovators out in...
Quantify Your Company’s Impact on People
hbr.org Sep 8, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has thrust into the limelight the far-reaching impacts that business has on vulnerable people in workforces and communities across the world. It has raised the imperative of tackling inequalities onto a political par with...
Why do you feel lonely? Neuroscience is starting to find answers.
technologyreview.com Sep 4, 2020
Long before the world had ever heard of covid-19, Kay Tye set out to answer a question that has taken on new resonance in the age of social distancing: When people feel lonely, do they crave social interactions in the same way a hungry person...
The Trump Administration Continues to Erode Election Security
wired.com Sep 3, 2020
With the November presidential election just over 60 days away, recent actions and reports over the last week from all three of the government departments responsible for protecting the vote raise new concerns about the Trump administration’s...
How to Launch a New Biosciences Product: Start Small or Dive in?
hbr.org Sep 1, 2020
BRIAN KENNY: Here’s a little Cold Call trivia for you. What do lipstick, pizza dough, and biodiesel fuel have in common? And the answer is palm oil. Palm oil is one of the most widely used ingredients in the world. You’ll find it in 50% of the...
To Build Grit, Go Back to Basics
hbr.org Sep 1, 2020
CURT NICKISCH: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Curt Nickisch. Concepts like resilience and grit have been popular in recent years. But it’s much easier to exalt them when you’re flying high, and times are good. It’s...
How special relativity can help AI predict the future
technologyreview.com Aug 28, 2020
Computers, however, find causal reasoning hard. Machine-learning models excel at spotting correlations but are hard pressed to explain why one event should follow another. That’s a problem, because without a sense of cause and effect, predictions...
The TikTok Ban Should Worry Every Company
hbr.org Aug 28, 2020
Earlier this summer, the U.S. government announced it was considering banning Chinese social media apps, including the popular app TikTok. In August, President Trump signed two executive orders to block transactions with ByteDance, TikTok’s parent...
Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead.
technologyreview.com Aug 26, 2020
The first family to quit Pastor Clark Frailey’s church during the pandemic did it by text message. It felt to Frailey like a heartbreaking and incomplete way to end a years-long relationship. When a second young couple said they were doubting his...
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