Our MBA students are typically in the late 20s and expressed their interest in making a difference in a video blog assignment I give them every year.
Your Next Car Might Be Electric!
Electric cars are the main protagonists at this year’s auto show in Paris. Volkswagen, Mercedes, Renault, PSA, Opel and Porche are also showing new concepts, production cars or both and all appear to be pursuing electric vehicles indicating that the technology may be going mainstream.
Apple and its social license to operate
Apple needs to consider its reputation and should make a bold move to use some of its enormous cash reserves to pay what could have been its tax bill and thus win back public acceptance before it is lost forever.
Resilience is the next big thing!
We are seeing the limits to operational effectiveness and have pushed it so far that our processes can not deal with the unexpected. Every company should look at itself with an eye of thinking through its resilience particularly in terms of the environment, climate change,and the evolving geo-political situation in the world.
Larry Fink argues for sustainability and the long term
In an unprecedented move Larry Fink, the CEO of Black Rock has sent a letter to all the CEOs of the S&P 500 urging them to focus on the long term and make their firms sustainable.