A recent MIT study found that 95 percent of investments in generative AI have produced no measurable returns. It’s a sobering figure, especially for leaders who have spent months urging their teams to ...

This extraordinary year has brought to the fore an unprecedented number of wicked problems – like Covid-19 or systemic racism. Global warming, developing over decades, arguably is the biggest one.

For most teams, the pandemic either brought colleagues closer or drove them increasingly apart. There are three key reasons why. What makes a team more than the sum of its parts? Its cohesion or ...

In early 2025, Chinese company DeepSeek released a new open-source LLM (large language model) that sent the tech world – and the stock market – into a frenzy. DeepSeek-R1 does not only perform on a ...

Seven recommendations for boards to recalibrate their strategies and skill sets. The old assumption that the past informs the future no longer holds true in an era marked by unparalleled speed and ...

“Right to Disconnect” laws may be a piece of the puzzle. But leaders, managers and employees need to lead the change. Imagine a world where your boss could be fined for contacting you after hours.

Companies sometimes rename themselves following mergers or corporate restructurings. For example, in 1996 Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz merged to form Novartis. At other times, a renaming serves to insulate a ...

It is widely assumed that unconventionally-designed offices stimulate creativity. But that isn’t always the case – sometimes they may even impede innovation. Google and Facebook are famous for their ...

True parity in the workplace is still a distant goal. INSEAD faculty outline why women aren’t advancing and the role gender stereotypes play. Meanwhile, in corporate America and Canada, representation ...

What’s even worse than ubiquitous business buzzwords? When those buzzwords are also used interchangeably. Case in point: the terms “platform” and “ecosystem”. Although often conflated, these words ...

When top Amazon executives were debating in the mid-2000s whether to greenlight Kindle, the now ubiquitous e-reader, sparks flew in the boardroom. Jeff Wilke, the CEO of Amazon’s retail business at ...

Uber, Grab and Go-Jek embody emerging strategies in international platform competition. Competition among ride-sharing companies is intensifying in Southeast Asia, a region where the growth of ...