2020

Using the tools it has today, China can transform its aging population into a vital social and economic force supporting the country’s growth, writes Jonathan Woetzel in China Daily.

A Bio Revolution is underway that could make a contribution to broader efforts to slow or reverse climate change, writes Michael Chui in GreenBiz.

Company executives are looking to more deeply understand their supply chains, shift from “just-in-time” to a more robust inventory management approach, and increase their supply chain transparency and resilience, writes Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.

Progress towards greater gender equality has been hesitant and halting over the past five years and the Covid-19 pandemic now risks sending it into reverse, write Deepa Mahajan, Olivia White, Anu Madgavkar and Mekala Krishnan in Harvard Business Review.

Despite its dismal Q1 FY2021 GDP figures, India can grow rapidly again, to gainfully employ the 90 million workers expected to enter the non-farm job market over this decade, write Shirish Sankhe and Anu Madgavkar in The Economic Times.

With the world undergoing its second “once in a generation” disruption in 12 years, a reappraisal of supply chains is in order.

Confronting the COVID-19 pandemic gives us a once-in-a-generation opportunity to take the steps needed to advance broad-based health and prosperity in the long term, write Jaana Remes and Katherine Linzer in Project Syndicate.

Making prudent investments in the health of the world’s population can dramatically improve people’s quality of life, protect against downside risks such as pandemics, and lead to large economic returns from increased output and productivity, write Jaana Remes, Martin Dewhurst and Lola Woetzel in Harvard Business Review.

In the wake of COVID-19, business leaders cant wait to get back to "normal." But research shows there are lasting economic benefits to keeping a focus on health, write Jaana Remes and Shubham Singhal in Fortune.

The battle against COVID-19 is unlike any other wars, but the economic consequences offer some similarities, write Gary Pinkus and Sree Ramaswamy in Fortune.

By acknowledging the economic rationale of the care economy, India can make it easier for women to work for pay-and equally reap the productivity gains of doing so, write Roopa Purushothaman, Anu Madgavkar and Vivek Pandit in Hindustan Times.

Addressing COVID-19 only scratches the surface of what biological innovation can do, write Michael Chui and Matthias Evers in Project Syndicate.

Rapid and ever-cheaper DNA sequencing has deepened our understanding of how biology works and tools such as CRISPR are now being used to recode biology to treat diseases or make crops less vulnerable to climate change, write Matthias Evers and Michael Chui in STAT.

Now it is biology’s turn to reinvent tech and every other industry, writes Michael Chui in Fast Company.

The great forces of technology and globalization continue to open new markets and forge the potential for new business models, while also fueling new competition and creating unanticipated complications that leading firms will need to navigate, write James Manyika and Monique Tuin in Milken Institute review.

This column argues that the severe economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed vulnerabilities in the social contract, write Tilman Tacke, Anu Madgavkar, and Hans‐Helmut Kotz in VoxEU.

Over the past two decades women across advanced economies have made far-reaching gains, but much of this progress has been offset by rising costs and new forms of insecurity that once again disproportionately affect women, write Laura Tyson and Anu Madgavkar in Project Syndicate.

We find that those companies finding more success in scaling efforts are more likely than others to apply a core set of practices, write Michael Chui and Bryce Hall in Harvard Business Review.

It is important for policy makers and business leaders to look beyond the positive aggregate economic data to what is really happening in people’s lives, write James Manyika and Michael Spence in Harvard Business Review.

There are also at least three critical issues that are adversely affecting hundreds of millions of people across 22 OECD countries, which may help to explain the mismatch between aggregate economic data and individual experience, write Sven Smit and Anu Madgavkar in Project Syndicate.

Increasing effects of climate change call for better systematic risk management, more adaptation and accelerated decarbonization, writes Lola Woetzel in China Daily.

The public, private and third sectors need to work together to support women to make the transitions they need to thrive in the automation age, write Anu Madgavkar, Vivian Hunt, and Lareina Yee in World Economic Forum.