Ideas Worth Teaching

~ November 3, 2016 Issue ~

Helping business faculty explore the relationships between corporations, capital markets, and the public good.

FUTURE OF WORK

Moo Cluck Moo: Serving Up More Than the Minimum Wage

WDI Publishing: Wayne Baker, Sarah Kurtz McKinnon

Can a fast food company balance a living wage and other benefits
with growth?

GRAND CHALLENGES

Tackling the Challenge of Financial Inclusion: Social Intrapreneurs Step Up

The Aspen Institute Business & Society Program

How are intrapreneurs in the financial industry innovating for good?

BUSINESS & GOVERNMENT

The City That Was Saved by the Internet

Motherboard: Jason Koebler

Can gigabit networks return stressed towns to prosperity (or is rejuvenated manufacturing a better bet)?

BUSINESS ETHICS

Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race

ProPublica: Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr.

When does targeted advertising become discrimination? (also see the related series on machine bias)

BUSINESS & GOVERNMENT

Drug Maker Thwarted Plan to Limit Oxycontin Prescriptions at Dawn of Opioid Epidemic

STAT: David Armstrong

"We saw it coming." How can we better balance business with consumer safety, before the next epidemic?

TALENT MANAGEMENT

Let Your Workers Rebel

Harvard Business Review: Francesca Gino

Is nonconformity the key to constructive employee engagement? If so, can it be channeled for more than profit alone?

On the eve of the U.S. elections, some much needed inspiration:

Can business help fix our broken politics?; Jay Faison works to apply business acumen to climate and politics; why immigrants are often more entrepreneurial; millennial entrepreneurs are finding ways to crash through the glass ceiling; voting on climate change? here's how much CO2 the earth is churning out in real time; and Starbucks tries to bring a little end-of-election unity to your cup.

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Ideas Worth Teaching is a tightly curated, weekly email for business school faculty to prompt new conversations in the classroom about the relationships between corporations, capital markets, and the public good. Its intent is to provide "drag and drop" functionality - allowing faculty to easily use the articles, cases and other teaching materials that we will be sharing in their class discussions.

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