Collaborative contracting: Moving from pilot to scale-up

Despite the early successes of collaborative-contract adopters, the industry remains hesitant. Five steps can help project owners better envision the transition toward more collaborative approaches.
Collaborative contracting: Moving from pilot to scale-up

Digital supply-chain transformation with a human face

Why building a digitally enabled supply chain is hard, and what to do about it.
Digital supply-chain transformation with a human face

Corporate Asia: A capital paradox

Asian corporations now account for 43 percent of the world’s largest 5,000 companies, contributing $19 trillion in revenue to the world economy every year. But has this growth come at a cost?
Corporate Asia: A capital paradox

Gold in an era of drones, deep mines, and dedollarization

While gold does not tarnish or decay, the industry that mines, refines, and fashions the yellow metal is far less stable.
Gold in an era of drones, deep mines, and dedollarization

The Best of This Week

Checking Messages About Work Versus, Um, Actually Doing Work

Slack has changed how we behave at work, leaving us either distracted by messages or anticipating being distracted. What was once heralded as the email killer is just sort of making us miserable now.

The Path Forward for Automated Vehicles

The future of mobility via automated vehicles isn’t autos versus tech, but rather autos plus tech: collaborations that weave together products, services, and business models to meet the needs of individual users across wide-ranging use cases.

Achieving Success When You’re the Underdog

No matter your current role, most of us can relate to the experience of feeling underestimated at some point in our careers. Recent research by Wharton professor Samir Nurmohamed found that employees who view themselves as underdogs are more likely to receive higher performance evaluations from their supervisors.

Understanding That Detroit Hustle

In resource-constrained environments like Detroit, individuals approach entrepreneurship in different ways than people in affluent regions such as Silicon Valley do. For a city that has experienced tough economic times, entrepreneurship is blooming.

How to Be a Better Funder

Tech philanthropy is booming, but it doesn’t always meet the real needs of the organizations it aims to help. How can tech philanthropists be better funders? Stanford Social Innovation Review offers five best practices to help tech companies move fast and improve how they fund nonprofits.

What Else We’re Reading

• Innovation opportunities abound with digital twins
• Farmers are buying 40-year-old tractors to avoid computerized repair nightmares
• Eight management ideas to embrace in the 2020s

Quote of the Week

“We don’t yet know which predictions about the climate will be most accurate, nor what effects we have failed to consider. But there is no denying the direction we are heading. Every government, company, and shareholder must confront climate change.”

— Larry Fink, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, in his annual letter to CEOs

The Best of This Week

The case for an end-to-end automotive-software platform

Software is transforming car capabilities but also creating development challenges for automotive players. An end-to-end approach that integrates independent software elements into a comprehensive platform can improve functionality and decrease complexity.
The case for an end-to-end automotive-software platform

Climate risk and response: Physical hazards and socioeconomic impacts

How could Earth’s changing climate impact socioeconomic systems across the world in the next three decades? A yearlong, cross-disciplinary research effort at McKinsey & Company provides some answers.
Climate risk and response: Physical hazards and socioeconomic impacts