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  • 5 Mar 2019
    Martha L. Maznevski, Kanina Blanchard

    Female Leadership and the Curious Puzzle of the Missing Diversity Benefit

    In honour of International Women’s Day we hear from Martha Maznevski, Organizational Behavior scholar, and Kanina Blanchard, a former senior executive at Dow Chemical, on the changing role of women in business. Martha and Kanina reflect on their experiences as female leaders, the progress they’ve been part of, and the continued improvements they hope to see.

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  • 25 Feb 2019
    Frank J. Garcia

    Consent and Coercion in Trump’s Trade Policy

    Frank J. Garcia, author of Consent and Trade, on US trade policy under the leadership of Donald Trump

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  • 15 Feb 2019
    Professor Ng Yew Kwang

    Markets and Morals: Justifying Kidney Sales and Legalizing Prostitution

    Should prostitution, or the buying and selling of sexual services, be legalized? Similarly for the monetary exchanges of many other controversial items like kidneys and other organs, blood, surrogate motherhood, line sitting/standing, etc. Should essential goods like water be priced at their full social costs of supply? Should more monetary fines be used in place […]

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  • 13 Feb 2019
    Dick Whittington

    Digital innovation and entrepreneurship: bridging the skills gap

    A professor of Business Innovation and an experienced entrepreneur, Dick Whittington reflects on a weakness of STEM degree programmes in the modern world – and how he’s addressing it with his textbook Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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  • 12 Feb 2019
    Chadwick D. Oliver, Fatma Arf Oliver

    Sustainability through knowledge, innovation, and optimism, not fear and pessimism

    Global environmental issues were identified as a crisis in the 1960’s (1). The alarmist rhetoric caught the public’s attention, but stimulated a pessimistic attitude (2) that human beings were destabilizing an otherwise harmonious, “steady state” world. The focus on the environment accomplished much. It raised public awareness of issues from species extinctions to air and […]

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  • 11 Jan 2019
    Sandra L. Barnes

    The Bird Box and Jim Crow

    It was reported that at least 45 million people watched the 2018 Netflix movie “Bird Box” in its first week. I was one of them (spoiler alert). The film focuses on a dystopian society in which a woman (played by Sandra Bullock) attempts to travel down a river and through a forest with two young […]

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  • 3 Dec 2018
    Hammer and Silicon
    Daniel J. McCarthy

    Immigration Matters

    Immigration is, needless to say, a very hot topic in today’s charged political climate. Still, little attention has been paid in the popular press to immigration of highly educated technological professionals. One quick fact is that around two-thirds of the professionals working in Silicon Valley are foreign born. Another is that in 2017, just over […]

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  • 15 Oct 2018
    Jocelyn Pixley

    Central Banks, Democratic States and Financial Power

    When the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of England purchased bank and state debt during the 2007–2008 crisis, it became apparent that, when technically divorced from fiscal policy, monetary policy cannot revive but only prevent economic activity deteriorating further. Pixley explains how conflicting social forces shape the diverse, complex relations of central banks […]

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