Ideas Worth Teaching

~ November 8, 2018 ~

FUTURE OF WORK

Lobster 207: How Self-Employed Workers Found their Voice and Improved their Livelihoods through the Maine Lobstering Union

MIT Sloan: Megan Larcom, Jenny Weissbourd, Jeremy Avins

How did this group of self-employed entrepreneurs harness the power of cooperative labor to rebuild their economic wellbeing?

TALENT MANAGEMENT

The Talent Shortage: Someone Else's Problem

Korn Ferry: Cynthia Stuckey, Jean-Marc Laouchez, Alan Guarino

With low unemployment and increased demand for new skills, what would it mean to stop hoping for a technological fix and start rethinking the talent pipeline?

BUSINESS & GOVERNMENT

Wisconsin's $4.1 Billion Foxconn Factory Boondoggle

The Verge: Bruce Murphy

Where should society draw the line between supporting corporate investment and selling the farm?

GRAND CHALLENGES

Business Does Not Need the Humanities -- But Humans Do

Harvard Business Review: Gianpiero Petriglieri

Does business strive to build better machines or better humans? And how can the study of humanities help do both?

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Can a Company Succeed without a Hierarchy?

Yale Insights: James N. Baron

This company turned an academic model into a organizational reality. What does it take to make non-hierarchical structure work?

FUTURE OF CAPITALISM

Want to Kill Your Economy? Have MBA Programs Churn out Takers Not Makers.

Evonomics: Rana Foroohar

How can MBA programs teach students to navigate the "messy, emotional, dynamic world of business"?

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