The old playbook for power and control won’t work to retain Gen Z talent. Instead, employers need to take a cue from Roblox.

An analysis of 1,000 negotiations suggests that the longstanding debate between “hard” and “soft” negotiating styles misses the point.

In 2024, the maternal mortality rate (MMR) in the United States and the United Kingdom will grow, although postmortem reviews conclude that 80 percent of maternal deaths in high-income countries are preventable. Rates in high-income countries across Western Europe and Asia did decrease between 1990 and 2010, yet in some of these countries, like the […]

At Steve Jobs’s private memorial service, attendees received a mysterious box—the Apple founder’s final, handpicked gift for those closest to him. What was in the box? A cherished Apple memento? An amazing new tech-invention? Some final wise words?

Many years before ChatGPT was released, my research group, the University of Cambridge Social Decision-Making Laboratory, wondered whether it was possible to have neural networks generate misinformation. To achieve this, we trained ChatGPT’s predecessor, GPT-2, on examples of popular conspiracy theories and then asked it to generate fake news for us. It gave us thousands […]

After a wave of corporate engagement in social justice in the U.S., followed by a recent backlash, some companies are retreating from their public commitments. At the same time, research demonstrates customers want to see their values reflected in their purchases. Edelman’s 2025 Brand Trust report found 64% of respondents buy, choose, or avoid brands […]

A recent global study, which surveyed 10,000 young people from 10 countries, showed that nearly 60 percent of them were extremely worried about the future state of the planet. The report, which was published in the medical journal The Lancet, also showed that nearly half of the respondents said that such distress affected them daily, […]

Companies have often responded to new technologies with process tweaks or bolt-on tools. Some companies adapted; others faltered, not for lack of innovation but because they failed to reorganize around it. Agentic AI raises the same challenge but with higher stakes. It demands cross-functional execution that breaks free from silos and outdated ways of working.

In 2024, social media will get small. Not small in influence, of course. As the US weathers an election likely to be both divisive and often divorced from reality, social media will again be a battleground for public opinion and perception. But the platforms on which these conversations will take place will be smaller in […]

How the evolving tariff landscape has shaped the U.S. economy, and what it could mean for businesses in the coming months.