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Stuart N. Brotman, Brookings, August 12, 2014 Last week’s slow summer news was filled with monkeys and robots, breaking the usual pattern of having sharks grab the headlines each August. The two stories in combination actually raise an interesting and...
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Alan G. Robinson and Dean M. Schroeder, Chief Learning Officer, August 11, 2014 Most leaders want their organizations to be more innovative. Yet, they often undermine that innovativeness by running them as command and control entities rather than incubators for...
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Kenneth M. Pollack, Brookings, August 11, 2014 Without a doubt, one of the biggest and most disturbing surprises of the past week was the seeming ease with which ISIS fighters defeated Kurdish Peshmerga forces, seizing several towns in northern Iraq, the Mosul...
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Seema Jayachandran and Rohini Pande, The New York Times, August 8, 2014 A recent study has shown that in India, where childhood malnutrition causes millions to be permanently affected by poor health and cognitive deficits, the preference for firstborn sons...
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James Surowiecki, The New Yorker, August 4, 2014 There are now more than a thousand B corps in the U.S. and their rise is a reminder that the idea that corporations should be only lean, mean, profit-maximizing machines isn’t dictated by the inherent...
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Dan Hurley, Discover, June 11, 2013 Your ancestors’ lousy childhoods or excellent adventures might change your personality, bequeathing anxiety or resilience by altering the epigenetic expressions of genes in the brain. […read more]
