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Leading thinkers from academia, business, consulting, and design give us their input on a key aspect of each issue's theme.
You don’t need a 100-page strategic plan. Strategy is actually about making five specific choices.
A UC Berkeley Professor and author describes the route to greatness at work.
A former Apple executive and Thinkers50 'Future Thinker' describes the power of 'onlyness' in a world desperate for creative solutions.
Rotman School Professor Eric Kirzner on the pros and cons of Robo Advisors
Faculty Focus: Sarah Kaplan + Joshua Gans, Profs. of Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management
A Wharton School innovation expert describes a Third Way to innovation that opens new doors to growth.
Faculty Focus: Daniel Trefler, Economist, Rotman School of Management
Q&A with Iris Bohnet, Harvard Kennedy School Professor
Rotman Professor Bing Han discusses our fear of the unknown in capital markets.
The head of Bain's Advanced Analytics practice describes 30 elements of value.
Rotman Professor Claire Celerier discusses finance salaries and inequality.
A leadership expert and author talks about closing the gap between managerial capacity and increasing demands.
Rotman Professor Sarah Kaplan discusses creativity and enlightened brainstorming.
The Chief Economist of General Electric discusses the challenge and solution of disruptive innovation.
A serial entrepreneur in-the-making describes his passion for pushing the envelope and the opportunities that excite him most.
Rotman Professor Nina Mažar explains how the careful design of choice architecture can help people act on their good intentions.
A University of Toronto innovation expert gives his views on innovation and inequality in the midst of the world's third globalization.
An expert in cross-cultural management describes the importance of subtle behavioural cues.
Rotman Professor Anita McGahan and London Business School Professor Costas Markides discuss how small changes can help solve some of our biggest global problems.
The founder of the modern strategy field describes how healthy businesses are intrinsically linked to healthy communities.
The Millennial political-movement founder and author describes his generation’s approach to life and work.
An executive coaching pioneer defines ‘leadership character’, and explains how it affects the bottom line.
The Wired columnist and best-selling author describes the value of Internet-enabled ‘public thinking’.
A psychologist and human capital expert describes what it takes to become a member of the global elite.
A renowned psychiatrist and difficult conversations expert describes the power of making someone 'feel felt'.
"Only an ideologue could ignore the hard fact that globalization is not working — or not working as well as it could." - Rotman Professor Dan Trefler
The author of The MomShift says it’s time to question outdated paradigms of motherhood.
A leading international economist describes the imbalances in the Chinese economy and what its rise means for the rest of the world.
Leadership expert Liz Wiseman explains the differences between ‘Multipliers’ and ‘Diminishers’, and how to amplify the intelligence of the people around you.
An insider’s take on an iconic advertising campaign? Priceless.
Herminia Ibarra, one of the Thinkers-50 most influential business thinkers in the world, discusses how mid-life is the time to become and express oneself more uniquely and fully.
Stéphane Côté, Professor of Organizational Behaviour and HR Management at Rotman, discusses how emotional intelligence ('EI') affects decision making.
The award-winning journalist talks about the infamous ‘one per cent’ and the winner-takes-all environment of global business.
The innovation expert, author, and educator, describes ‘Creative Intelligence’ and the urgent need for creative competencies.
Will Mitchell talks about his book "Should You Build, Borrow, or Buy" (HBR Press, 2012), co-written with Laurence Capron, and explains how asking these three strategic questions will prime your organization for optimal growth.
The London Business School professor and top 50 management thinker describes the possible ups and downs of the future of work.
Rotman Professor Chen-Bo Zhong discusses ethical decision-making and the dangers of over-emphasizing reason and deliberation.
The best-selling author and ‘ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age’ describes the importance of making yourself indispensable.
"When you face a dilemma, you can firm your muscles and it will help to strengthen your resolve." Kellogg Professor Aparna Labroo discusses the role of the body in self-regulation.
The woman who has been called Intel’s ‘secret weapon’ provides an anthropologist’s take on the increasing role of technology in our lives.
The Pulitzer-Prize nominee discusses the inherent ‘shallowness’ of Web 2.0 technologies and the troubling consequences for our brains.
As the world's borders dissolve products are moving around more than ever, leading to thriving ‘grey markets’.
GE’s chief marketing officer discusses the importance of imagination to her company’s future.
Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Jennifer Berdahl, explains how indirect forms of mistreatment are actually more harmful to the victim than overt forms of aggression.
The psychotherapist and author discusses what it means to get ‘hooked’ and how to get un-hooked.
The best-selling author and London Business School professor describes how to lead clever people.
With low rates of personal savings becoming endemic, ‘earmarking’ your funds can be a helpful money-management strategy.
The Rotman professor discusses the origin of our cognitive frames, and what to do when they conflict with others’.