Social and global issues

Twelve lessons on analyzing data, communicating information, and protecting your employees.

Lessons from a health care system in Texas.

The former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, whose life journey began in a Manhattan tenement, is an outspoken champion of inclusive capitalism and racial equity--themes...

People under 40 account for 79% of spending on luxury goods and services in China.

New survey data sheds light on three key reasons.

There is no “right way” to come out as LGBTQIA+ work — it’s a deeply personal decision.

Affordability and sustainability, not premium pricing and abundance, are the new tenets of effective innovation. Westerners are struggling with the shift...

Business leaders of previous generations would envy today's low job-hopping rates.

This year is a demographic watershed, a critical juncture for both individuals and employers. This is the year the first Boomers are officially eligible to retire. Whether you as an individual should retire when your time comes and whether, as a corporate leader, should fight to hold on to the Boomers in your midst are […]

Midcareer employees and managers, who should be at their peak of productivity, are the most disaffected segment of the workforce. Companies need to find ways to rekindle the fires of this vast, neglected group of people—or risk losing them altogether.

Gender and age trends are redefining the “standard” career trajectory.

A rookie learns the costs of being exceptional.

The industries with the most female managers have the biggest pay gaps.

I wrote a post a few weeks back about whether the current economic climate might lead to a somewhat reduced focus on twittering and friending a la Web...

A black man employed by a Minnesota trucking company had racial slurs directed at him and was the target of graffiti written by fellow workers. A U.S. district court held that the trucking company violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and ordered it to take affirmative action and disciplinary measures against […]

All the market research said that TF’s NextStage stores couldn’t miss. What went wrong?

To realize the benefits of a generationally diverse workforce, we need to learn how to appreciate our unique preferences, habits, and behaviors.

Put aside the dire headlines about falling stock markets, rising risks of recession, and overall economic anxiety. If you’re young, smart, and even reasonably well-connected, these are great times to be working on your career. We are in a seller’s market for “human capital.” Well-known technology companies are battling fiercely to recruit newly minted programmers, […]

It was Barack Obama who got me thinking a lot about race in the workplace lately and wondering just how much progress we’ve made — at least here in the U.S. I began with a somewhat optimistic point of view and things just went downhill from there. Obama, of course, has been heralded for his […]

Research on downsizing, gender, and race.