> Return to the #92 Newsletter New ethical challenges are constantly emerging in corporations, from how to allocate medical attention during a pandemic to what algorithm to create for self-driving cars. Ethics is at the core of business activity and decision-making. Even accreditation agencies like AACSB and Equis have revised their standards for business educational institutions to embrace the importance of including ethics education across business disciplines. Business ethics is the…
Research Guide
e-Commerce
> Return to the #91 Newsletter Over the past few years, as digitization has accelerated, the e-commerce landscape has become more and more dynamic. Innovative business models have transformed the buyer-seller relationship while pushing the frontier of what is possible to buy and sell online. The gradual expansion of internet access and adoption, which quickened during the coronavirus crisis, has boosted the growth of digital commerce and spurred the creation of…
Summer Readings 2021
> Return to the #90 Newsletter Summer is here, meaning it is time for the Library’s traditional summer reading recommendations. This year we offer up a selection of new titles that may help readers prepare for a post-Covid world. The list is based on suggestions made for this summer by authors that have won or been listed for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. We hope…
Fake News
> Return to the #89 Newsletter Misinformation and disinformation are not a new phenomenon. The production, dissemination and sharing of verifiably false and (in the case of disinformation) intentionally misleading content, usually for political or commercial purposes, have always existed. The difference today is that new digital technologies have made it much easier, quicker and more effective to spread fake news. It can now travel the world in the blink of…
The Future of Work Is Here
> Return to the #88 Newsletter The outbreak of Covid-19 has forced organizations to change the way they work and interact. It has unleashed changes in how and where we work – changes that would probably have happened anyway, just on a longer time line. It has transformed not only the organization of workplaces and workforces but also the very foundations of the employee-employer relationship. Technological advances and changes in economies…