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Strategy

A Guide to Digital Transformation

Assessing your organization’s digital readiness

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Social Impact

Why You Should Develop a Giving Strategy

Experts in philanthropy share the many benefits of thinking through — and defining — what, when and how you contribute to charitable causes

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Strategy

The Power of Trust

Discover the keys to earning and maintaining trust in today’s marketplace

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Marketing

Are Bad Visuals Holding You Back?

Pretty presentations, clear charts and functional figures aren’t just matters of esthetic preference. They can impact your work

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Social Impact

How to Measure Your Organization’s Social Impact

Best practices, tools and methods to determine ROI for social investments

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Strategy

Barry Cross’ Laws of Innovation, Operation and Execution

Discover 10 essential principles that can help strengthen your company’s performance and reduce risk

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Strategy

Turning Strategy Into Results

Learn how to close the gap between planning and execution in your organization

Bhargav Gopal Assistant Professor of Business Economics, Smith School of Business
Teams

Understanding Non-Compete Agreements

Explore the impact of non-competes on workers and businesses

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Teams

How to Build High-Performing Teams: Olympic Lessons from Team Canada

Practical insights on trust, communication and well-being

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Strategy

Problem Solving with Design Thinking

How to tap into your team’s creative potential to deliver solutions

Nicole Robitaille
Marketing

Understanding the Power of Nudging

How to get people to make good decisions using behavioural science

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Finance

Accounting Standards in a Dynamic Environment

How to set and apply standards in a world of fast-paced economic, technological and social change

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Entrepreneurship

The Business of Family

Explore why some family businesses endure while others fizzle out

Blake  Steenhoven
Leadership

The Hidden Message in What Executives Say

Discover the role of vocal cues in investor decision-making

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Leadership

Redefining Success: Women, Work and Finding Balance 

How to design a meaningful career at all life stages 

Why Are Some Family Businesses Built to Last?
Entrepreneurship

Why Are Some Family Businesses Built to Last?

The dynamics that make family businesses flourish go much deeper than a certain hot drama on TV

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Leadership

The Path to Leadership

Lessons on career growth and inspiring stories from Black leaders in Canada

Shai Dubey
Strategy

How to Be a Better Negotiator

Discover how good negotiation tactics can not only get us what we want but can enhance our relationships along the way

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Finance

Climate Reporting: What Your Firm Needs to Know

Canadian companies must start to understand their climate risk and measure emissions. Are you ready?

Wenjue Knutsen, adjunct associate professor at Smith School of Business
Finance

A Guide to Social Impact Investing

Emerging business models are reshaping traditional finance for the common good

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Analytics-AI

Can a Little Tech Ease the Burden on Nurses?

A study at a Montreal hospital finds small solutions to a big problem in the health-care system

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Finance

Managing and Auditing Whistleblowing Systems

Understanding best practices in whistleblowing, what to know about investigations and how to enable employees to speak up

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Teams

Should Non-Compete Agreements Be Non-Starters?

Provisions that limit worker mobility have at least one thing going for them: they encourage investment in training

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Leadership

Shaping Tomorrow: The Purpose Revolution in Business

Unlock the secrets to building a purpose-driven business and career

Lynnette Purda
Finance

Consumer Credit Assessment in the Age of Big Data

Technology is adding a twist to the creditworthiness game. The good news: it may improve financial inclusion

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Diversity

How to Be an Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Indigenization Leader

CEOs play a critical role in ensuring that EDII initiatives are taken seriously. Discover why HR policies and mandatory training can fall short in efforts to increase inclusion within organizations.

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Leadership

How to Become a More Successful Negotiator

An introduction to the art of consensus building

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Teams

How to Lead High-Performing Teams

Discover the secrets of great teams and how to help them thrive

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Marketing

Marketing Evolution: A Fireside Chat with Ken Wong

Understanding today’s consumer and navigating the new world of marketing

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Leadership

Beyond the Glass Ceiling

How to lead with confidence and grow your career

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Marketing

How to Boost Sales by Cutting Complexity

Adapt your sales strategies to help customers accelerate through the buying process

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Teams

Leadership at Work: Hierarchy vs. Self-Managing Teams

Professor Matthias Spitzmuller explains that self-managing teams shine for organizations that need to keep pace with changing customer needs.

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Leadership

Brave New Workplace

Discover the seven keys to productive, healthy and safe organizations

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Strategy

Driving Process Innovation

How to use intrapreneurship to bust bottlenecks and re-imagine your organization’s inner workings

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Finance

A Business Leader’s Guide to Blockchain

Understanding blockchain and how it will change the way organizations operate

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Finance

Auditing and Controlling Cybersecurity Risks

Understanding the role of accountants and auditors in successful cybersecurity policies and strategies

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Entrepreneurship

Making the Side Hustle Work

How to become an entrepreneur while holding down a corporate job

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Strategy

How to Combat the Talent Shortage

Learn what you can do to get and keep the best people

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Finance

Understanding the World of Blockchain

For the next few years, blockchain will generate most interest in finance, logistics and large companies but, down the line, smaller and medium-sized enterprises will benefit.

Strategy

Keeping Business Relevant in the Digital Age

The ideal digital product manager has three core values: seeing the possibilities of digital transformation; helping people connect; and having self-discipline.

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Diversity

How Does Social Class Affect the Workplace?

Socioeconomic status—income, education and occupation mixed with perceptions of rank based on these assets—is an underappreciated force in the workplace. It can also be a source of bias and discrimination.

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Strategy

Why Don’t People Protect Their Online Privacy?

It’s a paradox: Most people say they are very concerned about their privacy online but few do anything about it.

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Marketing

Why Customer Satisfaction is Critical

Firms may be wise to focus on meeting customer expectations rather than exceeding them.

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Social Impact

When Business Gets Political: How to Plan for Hot-Button Issues

Explore the new age of corporate social responsibility, extreme politics and consumer activism

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Leadership

The New Workplace: How to Build Effective Hybrid Teams

Explore the essential ingredients of hybrid teamwork

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Leadership

How to Communicate Effectively at Work

Build your professional communication skills

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Finance

Tackling the Great Resignation in Accounting

How to attract and retain talent in the accounting profession today

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Finance

The Global Financial Forecast

Opportunities and risk: What comes next in a post-pandemic world?

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Leadership

What You Need to Know About Digital Transformation

The business world is going digital, don't get left behind

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Leadership

Provoke! How Leaders Can Shape the Future

A discussion with bestselling business author Steve Goldbach

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Diversity

Diversity at Work: How Leaders Can Drive Change

Understanding your role in building a more representative workforce

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Analytics-AI

What You Need to Know About People Analytics

Understanding the game plan for the new world of data-driven human resources

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Leadership

How to Deliver on Your Company’s 2022 Strategy

The key lies in process, not people

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Global

Going for Gold: Communicating the Olympic Games in a Pandemic

An insider's take on this summer's most daunting communication challenge

The Emotional State of Workers in Canada
Leadership

The Emotional State of Workers in Canada

As we head toward the end of the third wave, leaders must give their teams a sense of progress

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How to Find Your Voice and Be Heard at Work
Leadership

How to Find Your Voice and Be Heard at Work

It’s in the interest of employees and leaders that everyone feels safe to speak up and contribute

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Adaptive Leadership: Getting the Best Out of People at Work
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Leadership

Why Your Brain Hates Uncertainty and How to Overcome It

Discover three strategies to build resilience at home and at work

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A guide to corporate distress and credit markets in COVID-19
Finance

A Guide to Corporate Distress and Credit Markets in COVID-19

For financial and investment professionals, there’s never been a time like now

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Leadership

How to Make More Rational Decisions at Work

The mind plays tricks on us. But worry not: There are ways to turn the tables on these hidden influences

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Analytics-AI

7 Things Every Business Leader Should Know About Artificial Intelligence

A guide for managers on AI, how it works and what it can (and cannot) do

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Marketing

How a Simple Nudge Can Bring in Tax Dollars

Turns out companies can be artfully encouraged to do the right thing, just like the rest of us

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Leadership

Building the post-pandemic workplace

Science-based lessons to design healthy and safe work for your employees

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Finance

What’s next in sustainable finance

Understanding sustainable finance and how it will impact the world of business

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Strategy

Why normal will be different: Preparing for 2021

Put the pandemic in context and find out how organizations are reacting to build a new future

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COVID-19

Embracing change for business success

Lessons from the pandemic on leading change within your organization

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COVID-19

Beyond COVID: The business of healthcare

A special webinar on healthcare and health policy in Canada

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COVID-19

Ready for the recovery?

A leader’s post-pandemic playbook to build brand & reputation

Paul Calluzzo, Toller Family Fellow of Finance.
Finance

How Bad Actors Infect Mutual Fund Boards

Dual-employed directors may not have shareholders’ best interests in mind

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Entrepreneurship

Getting started: How to build a social impact company

The do’s and don’ts of running a business that strives for the greater good

Laura Rees, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour.
Leadership

Why Emotions Belong at Work

Emotions are what make us human. Let’s learn how to use them for better decisions and honest workplace relations

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Diversity

Overcoming bias in the workplace: How leaders can drive change

Inclusion is not something that can wait, and leaders in organizations have an important role to play

Kathryn Brohman, associate professor and Distinguished Faculty Fellow of Information Systems at Smith School of Business.
Leadership

The Cost of Execution

The common barriers that are causing organizations to misdeliver on their strategy

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Finance

The post-pandemic global financial forecast

How will the pandemic impact major markets in Europe, Asia and North America going forward?

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Management

Decision-making: A guide for managers in good times and bad

There are solutions to dealing with uncertainty, and steps you can take to improve your decision-making abilities

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Strategy

Executing in uncertain times

How to avoid post-pandemic drift in your organization

Jean-Baptiste Litrico
Leadership

The Emergence of the Social Enterprise

The dilemma for non-profit leaders is how to diversify their organization’s sources of revenue while protecting its social mission

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Strategy

Canada’s next move: What happens after the pandemic?

As we emerge from the crisis, there will be long-lasting ramifications on the economy, government and the way we do business

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Marketing

Marketing in the age of coronavirus. What comes next?

Never before have we seen such a sudden and collective impact on consumers, their psyche, buying patterns and actions

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Leadership

Leading Virtual Teams

How to drive productivity, collaboration and make your team a success

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Leadership

Leading in Turbulent Times

What leaders can do to make a difference in this period of uncertainty

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Entrepreneurship

CORONAVIRUS: What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know Right Now

The coronavirus crisis presents a whole new set of challenges for business owners

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Resilience

CORONAVIRUS: How Will It Impact Business in Canada? And What Happens Next?

For businesses and the economy, this is all new territory

Shari Hughson, Director of the Master of Management Innovation & Entrepreneurship program at Smith.
Entrepreneurship

What makes a good entrepreneur/​intrapreneur?

The similarities and differences between these two types of innovators, and how to spot them within your organization

Ryan Riordan
Finance

What Exactly Is Sustainable Finance?

The ins and outs of the trend that's reshaping the financial industry, and why investors are paying attention to the environment

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Analytics-AI

Analytics for Small Business

You don’t have to play with the big boys and girls to use their tools. Learn what you need to get started

Stephen Thomas
Analytics-AI

In AI, There Are No Magical Unicorns

It takes a village to get artificial intelligence projects to the finish line. Prepare accordingly

Jana Raver
Entrepreneurship

Learning From Bounce-Back Entrepreneurs

For leaders of new ventures, adversity is just another lesson to absorb. “The second you start to frame things on the dark side, it inhibits future action”

Pamela Murphy
Teams

How to Control for Honesty

The challenge is to identify those who really want to be honest and those who only want to appear to be honest

Shari Hughson
Social Impact

What I Learned About Innovation From Seven Years in the Bush

Shari Hughson on our survival instinct and why Millennials are not the Problem Generation but the solution to our gravest challenges

Analytics-AI

How to Use Your Intuition Strategically

Knowing your intuition style is the first step to improving your decisions

Analytics-AI

The Maddening Puzzle of Multi-Channel Campaigns

Advertisers waste a lot of money by blindly assuming that cross-media interactions will always translate into sales gains. Here’s how they can solve that puzzle

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Analytics-AI

Identifying and Delivering the Ultimate Customer Experience

Ever walk a mile in your customers’ shoes? Here’s how to figure out what really makes them loyal and keep coming back for more

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Social Impact

What Good Is CSR Now?

In the 1990s, you could count on a financial payoff from a corporate social responsibility program. Today, not so much. What marketers need to know before jumping on the bandwagon

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Analytics-AI

Identifying and Overcoming Hidden Bias

Unconscious biases are roadblocks to sound decision making. Here’s what neuroscience tells us about how to de-activate these biases and build more effective leaders and innovators

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Diversity

Building an LGBTQ+ Inclusive Workplace

Coming out at work can seem like a perilous challenge. Here’s how organizations can support the process

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Social Impact

Healthcare Innovation: The Case for a National Strategy

The time for complacency is over. Here’s how to develop coherence, coordination, and a direction for innovative gains

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Analytics-AI

Building AI Bench Strength

How to move beyond enthusiasm or confusion over artificial intelligence to position your organization for the coming revolution

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Entrepreneurship

Developing the Intrapreneur’s Touch

How internal innovators can make their case and claim precious resources, and how leaders can create the space for them to succeed

Global

Going Global, With A Little Help from Your Competitors

By joining geographically-based industry clusters, small and medium-sized firms can access the “people and pipelines” necessary for international trade

Diversity

The Gaping Hole in Canada's Labour Force

Bank of Canada's Poloz: Boosting numbers of youth, women, Indigenous people, Canadians with disabilities, and recent immigrants "a prize worth pursuing"

Analytics-AI

Nudging Sales into the AI Revolution

With the automation of many sales tasks, salespeople will need to focus on their own killer app - building relationships

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Entrepreneurship

New Tax Proposals: What Entrepreneurs & Small Business Owners Need to Know

The federal government may be undermining the climate for new venture investment

Marketing

High-Growth Marketing: All Hands On Deck

For tech firms looking to scale at warp speed, marketers must get engineers and salespeople on the same page

Career Success

Willy Loman Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

Thanks to technology and more open-ended customer relationships, a career in sales has a whole new look

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Leadership

Killing Complexity for a Lean and Agile Organization

Agility is an outgrowth of simplicity. And simplicity comes from a laser focus on the customer

Diversity

In Space, a Third Culture Rules

How insights from behavioural economics can help solve thorny social issues

Diversity

On Pay Gaps, Biases, and Zero-Sum Thinking

Making good public policy is hard enough without having to deal with peoples’ behavioural tics

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Leadership

Intuition-Based Decision Making

Data are delightful but intuition is integral when sorting through options and setting a course. Here’s how to use experience and values to make the best decisions

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Global

Emerging Issues in Global Marketing

Consumers increasingly are going global yet strong sub-cultures still hold sway. How should marketing strategies keep up with the times?

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Social Impact

Investing With Social Purpose

The era of responsible investment and impact investment has arrived. What investors need to know to thrive in these new markets

Marketing

B2B Marketing: Where Emotion Fits

“Organizations don’t buy products. People in organizations buy products”

Marketing

What I Wish I Had Known Then

“The story we’re looking for is a story of human behaviour”

Analytics-AI

Where Analytics End and Instincts Begin

Want to improve the consumer’s experience? You probably won’t find the answer in historical data

Marketing

Strategic Planning, Beyond Divvying Up Resources

How insights from behavioural economics can help solve thorny social issues

Marketing

Is Brand Management Regaining its Lustre?

Marketers are starting to win back the authority to deliver on their brands’ promise

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Management

Disrupt or be disrupted?

The Practice of Agile Strategic Planning

Diversity

Out of the Shadows

Aboriginal youth unemployment is twice the Canadian average. For one Toronto firm, this sorry statistic is a call to action

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Leadership

Leading With Meaning

A values-based approach to building new patterns of thought and action

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Finance

Global Check-in: State of Financial Markets

From Hong Kong, London, and New York, a blue-chip panel discusses the key issues shaping global markets in the months ahead

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Management

Building Team Resiliency

How to ensure your work teams thrive in uncertain conditions — and how to recognize when they need to be broken up

Entrepreneurship

The Art of the Pitch

You’ve got a boffo business idea. They’ve got the cash to invest. How will you convince them to pull the trigger?

Entrepreneurship

The Rise of the Entrepreneurial Class

The “great democratization of the start-up era” has arrived. What are you waiting for?

Marketing

Gotta Serve Somebody

Many boneheaded business strategies have one thing in common: they overlook the customer

Diversity

Kicking the Prejudice Habit

A new strategy promises to help people unlearn stereotypes and change biased behaviour

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Social Impact

Small Steps to Sustainability

Employee-centric strategies to improve your environmental footprint.

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Career Success

Health, wellness and peak performance

Helpful Tips on Improving Your Well-being and Work Performance

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Entrepreneurship

Powerful Names and Brilliant Ideas

Intellectual Property when Patents and Copyright Don’t Apply

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Building Resilience
Career Success

Building Resilience

Thrive under pressure in your professional and personal life

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Global

Managing in Japan

Doing Business During Interesting Times

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Leadership

Embracing Organizational Flux

Fostering a Culture of Continuous Learning

Finance

Honest Talk About Fraud

It’s not only “bad” or greedy people acting alone who are guilty of wrongdoing, and internal controls go only so far

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Diversity

Managing a Multigenerational Workforce

Embracing the implications of our new demographic reality

Finance

Who Is Minding The Loans?

Changes in the corporate finance world are shaking up the banks’ role as senior lenders

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Career Success

Lessons in Resilience

A Sneak Peek Into Peter Jensen’s Next Book

Leadership

Living Dangerously in the Shadow of Ghomeshi

Organizations — in both their internal and externals worlds — can be hit by shrapnel from an employee’s private indiscretions. Here’s what they can do to limit the damage

Management

Building a Better Deviant

Sick of accepting mediocrity at work? Here are five safe ways to stand up for what you believe in

Finance

Forecast 2015: Adjusting to the New Normal

Consumers and manufacturers should use the temporary windfall of lower energy costs to pay down debt and invest in greater productivity

Finance

The Limits of Financial Regulation

David Dodge: American-style regulation is inefficient and pushing financial activity out of the banking system

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Finance

The Economic Meltdown

Could it Happen Again?

Career Success

What Are My Values? Let Me Get Back to You

Holger Kluge on the big deal between Shoppers and Loblaw and the importance of a handshake

Global

Health System Reform, the Aussie Way

Australia parlayed political good fortune and heavy-duty collaboration into a national healthcare strategy. Canada, take note

Social Impact

Disability Insurance as Incentive

Women in Taiwan undergo hysterectomies at a much higher rate than those living in the rest of the world. It seems a well-meaning public insurance program may be responsible

Social Impact

Sustainability in the Energy Patch: Gaps and Burning Issues

“Even with our most vehement opponents, we generally agree with final outcomes,” says Suncor’s Peter MacConnachie. “Disagreement is more on timing or pace or sequence.”

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Social Impact

The Science of Giving

Translating Consumer Psychology into Stakeholder Insight

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Analytics-AI

Big Data Meets Big Decisions

Blending analytics and intuition for marketing success

Entrepreneurship

Backbone of Rural Prosperity

Bringing broadband to rural and Northern Canada boosts economic fortunes in small communities at the expense of urban centres

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Management

Linking operations to demand management

Addressing the need for operational integration

Leadership

You Don’t Snooze, You Lose

Even a small amount of lost sleep can undermine your work performance or turn your kindly boss into a tyrant. Is it time for organizations to consider on-the-job naps?

Diversity

The Missing Half of Leadership

Voluntary compliance, backed by peer pressure, will boost the number of women in executive suites and boardrooms

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Marketing

Brand Storytelling That Engages Consumers

Leveraging the four components of a brand story

Leadership

My Three Big Leadership Lessons

Writing The Science of Leadership left Julian Barling with some a-ha moments

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Entrepreneurship

Improving The Odds For Your Startup

A guide to entrepreneurial success

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Global

Doing Business in China

The art of networking and sustained business success

Management

How Shiftwork Distorts Patient Care

In the last hour before they clock out, emergency department doctors see their patients less but order more tests. What are the lessons for hospitals?

Leadership

Leadership Development is Not a Perk

It’s an essential training experience for up-and-comers long before they become leaders

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Management

Strategy Execution

Breaking the Paradigm of Getting Things Done

Management

The Train of Decision-making Thought

Start with your gut instinct and then test it with this rigorous analytical process

Leadership

Great Leaders Do Not Walk on Water

But they do the small things really well, and know how to make amends when they go wrong

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Leadership

Lessons in Leadership from Nelson Mandela

Ten practical lessons from the life of a fabled leader

Strategy

Tapping Technology’s Hidden Value

It can take 15 years for technological solutions to be enacted. Firms can get on the fast track by co-creating value with their customers and competitors

Management

Putting a Number on Efficient Healthcare

The role of technology and physician behaviour get a closer look

Marketing

How to Build the Follow-Me-Anywhere Brand

In today’s marketing world, brand authenticity involves a brave leap of faith to connect to a social purpose

Social Impact

The Dark Side of Social Enterprises

We want to feel warm and fuzzy about do-gooder start-ups. But what impact do they really have? And what unintended consequences do they trigger?

Management

What Does Quality Healthcare Mean?

Bending the healthcare cost curve in the U.S. — and Canada — will require tough decisions on how to define and measure quality healthcare

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Marketing

Communication without Control

Managing reputations in the social media age

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Creating Value and Satisfying Customers
Marketing

Creating Value and Satisfying Customers

The latest insights from consumer psychology

Entrepreneurship

When Inventors Quit their Jobs to Found a Startup, Innovation Takes Off

Cut loose, founders produce more novel and commercial patents

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Finance

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Success Story

Outgoing CEO Jim Leech reveals the Teachers' secret sauce and shares his vision for a renewed Canada Pension Plan

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Leadership

Talent Management

Practical recruitment, retention, and development strategies to build a high-performance workforce

Entrepreneurship

In Venture Capital, it Takes an Entrepreneur to Know One

Among blue chip venture capital firms, finance pros may rule the roost but seasoned entrepreneurs are the star performers. Pity that so few of them are in the VC business

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Marketing

What is and What Could Be:

Using customer data to nurture emotionally loyal customers

Leadership

The Perils of Taking, and Giving, Credit

Eagerly sought and often fiercely contested, credit for an idea or great work is valuable currency in modern organizations. Here's how to cash in without doing collateral damage

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Global

Emerging Global Security Risks

Understanding trends and managing risks in international business

Leadership

The Benefits of Two-Headed Leadership

A co-CEO arrangement can mean better governance and built-in coaching, says Scotiabank's Mike Durland

Finance

Global Banking's Bumpy Road

Scotiabank’s Mike Durland on the prospects for greater regulation of world financial markets and the challenges facing financial innovators

Career Success

The Power of Positive Leadership

At Convocation '13, Scotiabank's Mike Durland channels Iron Man and Martin Luther King Jr.

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Leadership

Managerial Decision Making

A disciplined approach to making big choices

Leadership

Why Are We Strangely Blind to Our Own Ethical Lapses?

Thinking about multiple options at a time leads to more reflective and more moral thought: Max Bazerman

Social Impact

The Morality of Food and the People Who Eat It

What goes on in your head while you watch someone bite into an organic apple?

Entrepreneurship

Startup Investment: Hot Markets Lead to Hot Dogs, and Much More

It's assumed that innovation comes first and investment dollars follow. It turns out "money can change innovation and innovation outcomes"

Marketing

Tobacco Marketing: Where There’s Smoke, is There Fire?

Litigation has pried open a treasure chest of internal documents that show how tobacco companies go about identifying target markets

Entrepreneurship

Commercialization Blues: How a Government Lawsuit Hip-checked the Market for New Ideas

When the costs of collaboration are too high, inventors will go it alone

Diversity

Executive Behaviour: Why the Female Tortoise Beats the Male Hare

Business decisions by top female executives are more highly valued by the stock market than those made by male executives

Finance

The Dividend Month Premium and Paradox

Just before a stock's dividend cut-off date, buyers far outnumber sellers, which defies the logic of the stock market. What's going on?

Social Impact

Sustainable Behaviour: How To Turn Lawn Lovers into Grasscyclers

The marketing challenge: convince Calgarians to leave their grass cuttings on the lawn and not bag them. The winning appeal: what are your neighbours doing?

Social Impact

Ethical Consumption: When Firms Go Green, They May Not See Extra Green

If you plan on pricing your do-gooder product at a premium, you better have a good story

Marketing

Impression Management: Do You See What I See?

What male and female coupon clippers tell us about our need to avoid leaving a bad impression

Finance

Credit Rating Agencies: Downgraded but Not Out

Often loathed and rarely lauded, credit rating agencies have the distinction of being “both useless and powerful at the same time”

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Bad Apples at Work

Dealing With incivility, harassment, and bullying in the workplace

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Executive Wargaming

How to employ military battle-tested processes to enhance your strategic planning

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Is IT Playing The Wrong Role In Your Organization?

How insights from behavioural economics can help solve thorny social issues

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Enough About Leadership!

What are the benefits of followership, and how can it make for better leaders?

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What Accountants Don’t Want You to Know

Learn a simple system to handle accounting transactions

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Succeeding in a tough economy

Laying the foundation for growth

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Welcome to the Age of DIY Financial Analysis

Peer-based advice on buying and selling stocks found on popular finance websites can offer valuable intel on company fundamentals and move stock prices

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A corporate turnaround pro reveals a disciplined approach to creating responsive strategic plans

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Turning Data into Gold

Using analytics to discover your organization's hidden value

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Cross-Cultural Negotiations

Doing business in Canada's growing multicultural mosaic

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Credit Rating Agencies

What role do credit agencies play, and will regulation curb their excesses?