The executive director of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program explores how societal shifts in recent decades have upended the traditional rules of business and offers new rules to make businesses successful in their new social contexts.
Luciano Pietronero is an Italian statistical physics and full professor at the department of physics at University of Rome Sapienza. He was the founder and director of the Institute of Complex Systems of CNR from 2004 to 2014. Luciano’s research activities have been on fundamental and applied problems in the areas of condensed matter theory, […]
“My advice to CEOs embarking in this new era of sustainability would be to demonstrate their contribution as a business to society. It is the only way to win, to thrive and be chosen by consumers, employees, investors, and partners. So act, dare and show that you care.”
Sameer Hasija, professor at INSEAD discusses insights from a new book he coauthored with Ian Woodward, Paddy Padmanabhan, and Ram Charan. The authors argue that in order to avoid being disrupted, leaders need to go through “phoenix encounters” in which they contemplate and simulate their own disruption.
"The economic challenge of the 21st century is one of distribution—how does society share its income—when our traditional way of doing so, paying people for their work, might be less effective than it was in the past.”
In their new book, John Kay and Mervyn King argue that statistical models have only limited value in guiding business decision making. In an uncertain world, decision making should be guided by developing and critically challenging reference narratives, to figure out “what’s going on here?”
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