Hybrid work, in the authors’ experience, only works when all employees are treated as remote employees. To do this, companies need to do five things: embrace asynchronous communication, make communication boundaries clear, champion documentation and the production of artifacts, share information widely, and provide the right tools for employees to succeed. The pandemic acceleration toward…
One of the positive results of the pandemic has been increased collaboration among hospitals in metropolitan areas of the country. But the value of collaboration isn’t limited to crises. It can be a mechanism for improving quality and reducing costs in normal times. Collaborations among dozens of hospitals and physician organizations in Michigan that date…
March 16, 2022 General Sir Richard Barrons, the former commander of the UK’s Joint Forces Command — whose remit included military intelligence, special forces, and cyber, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how technology is changing the definition of warfare and why our society’s resilience in the face of threats to peace must be founded on…
THE IDEA of a Europe hostile to entrepreneurs would once have seemed laughable. At its 17th-century peak the Dutch East India Company’s appetite for capital was so voracious that it demanded the invention of the public stockmarket. Investors then did not balk at its violent treatment of native peoples. The turn of the 20th century…
A BIG CHANGE is under way in Asia’s technology industry. As investors avert their eyes from the government-imposed nightmare engulfing China’s internet champions, a cohort of South-East Asian counterparts is booming. Tot up the value ascribed by the market to just three listed and soon-to-be listed consumer-app giants with headquarters in Singapore and Jakarta, and…
New rules restrict ads with stars, institute a blacklist and monitor fan groupsFANS OF HUO ZUN were dismayed in August when images of the pop star were blurred out during a performance on “Call Me By Fire”, a Chinese reality show. Mr Huo’s hands were visible for some sequences. But when he came into the…
SUPPLY GLITCHES may be holding up transactions in much of the global economy but one area where purchasers can run riot is corporate acquisitions. Refinitiv, a data firm, tots up $5.1trn of deals this year, up 44% over all of 2020 and 21% over 2015, the previous peak. The reason for the boom? Low interest…
The renaming of an Oxford college is just one sign of their cloutTHE ECONOMIC development of Vietnam now has a permanent monument in one of the world’s most prestigious seats of learning. After a $207m investment announced early this month by Sovico, a Vietnamese holding firm, the University of Oxford’s Linacre College (for graduate students)…
A federal law requires that health information be easy to exchange by the end of this year. The development of standardized application programming interfaces, or APIs, will go a long way toward making that possible. Care providers, health plans, and software vendors should take several steps to capitalize on the opportunities that they will generate. Trying…
The Russian invasion of Ukraine changed the role of business in their response to sanctions. Investors and businesses will need to reassess what strategies and models they should adopt in response to a ‘brave new world’ in which entry into a country is perceived of as implicit acceptance of that country’s political actions. The challenge…