âYou canât stop technological change, but you can shape it.â That is the key message of Power and Progress according to its authors, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson. After researching 1,000 years of technological change, the authors conclude that, contrary to widespread âtechno-optimism,â advances in technology do not automatically translate into broad-based prosperity. If we… Read more >
Ancient civilizations, on the grounds of modern-day Egypt, pushed the boundaries of technology, giving the world breakthrough advances in mathematics, medicine, engineering, and more. Today, the city that never sleepsââCairoââis alive with 22+ million people who are young, diverse, and increasingly entrepreneurial. It is a city with a distinctive, modern vibe that still feels deeply… Read more >
âYour responses suggested a strong automatic association for male with leader and female with supporter.â That was the message displayed immediately after I completed the Implicit Association Test on Gender and Leadership (IAT). That was many years ago and the message is still etched in my mind. To say I was exasperated by the results… Read more >
If you are a parent and, like me, anxious to get better at it, you probably know about the carpenter and gardener metaphor popularized by Alison Gopnik, a professor at the University of California Berkeley. Being a carpenter, she says, is about molding a child into an adult who has a particular set of characteristics…. Read more >
âNÄu te rourou, nÄku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwiâ is a MÄori proverb, or whakatauki. It translates into âwith your food basket and my food basket the people will thriveâ and carries my humble holiday message to the GBSN community. To be sure, Iâm not an expert on MÄori, People of the Land… Read more >
âMotivated to address the most pressing needs of society and enabled by digital innovation, business schools have been redefining the boundaries of their work.â I wrote that in a 2020 blog to introduce our first GBSN Beyond, a new version of our flagship annual conference reimagined for a virtual format. In addition to pushing us… Read more >
âWhat is the place of economics in the curriculum of business?â That was the opening sentence and principal question of an article by Roswell C. McCrea in the Journal of Political Economy nearly 100 years ago. Keep in mind, it was early in the development of collegiate schools of business in the US, and schools… Read more >
In the late 1950âs, MIT professor Robert Solow published a series of influential articles describing a new framework for understanding economic growth. He showed that increasing labor and capital investment explained very little of the growth in the US between 1909 and 1949. Nearly all the growth was, instead, attributed to a broad set of… Read more >
What if we were to take the popular adage âGive a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetimeâ and modify it slightly. Letâs make it: Give a village fish, and you feed its people for a day. Teach its people… Read more >
About this time three years ago, the two of us were interviewing deans and business leaders, trying to make sense of the future. Covid-19 was breaking our normal, magnifying long-standing injustices, and pulling the future forward. We wanted to see the world beyond what was happening at the time. What we discovered, however, was that… Read more >
