How to Build a Better Future & More Ideas Worth Teaching

~ January 21, 2021 ~

GRAND CHALLENGES

Dear America: Writer, Thinkers and Activists on How to Build a Better Country

The Guardian: Rebecca Solnit, Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Robert Reich, Darren Walker, Bill McKibben, Alejandra Gomez, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Kim Cobb, Rachel Garcia

This week marks an opportunity for the US to change course. What concrete steps can it take to address its most intractable problems? (also see Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vision For Economic Justice)

GRAND CHALLENGES

Harvard and Yale Business Faculty: Advice To Joe Biden

Poets&Quants: Jeff Schmitt

How would you advise the new administration on the issues now challenging business and society?

INNOVATION

How We Gave Away Our Data and Made Big Tech What It Is Today

ProMarket: Tommaso Valletti

"How are we going to get out of this situation?" (also see Tech Companies Are Profiling Us From Before Birth and Managing the Unintended Consequences of Your Innovations)

FUTURE OF CAPITALISM

Companies Must Decide What Stakeholder Capitalism Means To Them

Forbes: Sarah Keohane Williamson

While short-termism "is clearly suboptimal," how should companies sort through competing approaches to stakeholder capitalism? (also see Do Billionaires Destroy Democracy and Capitalism? and This Is How the Super Rich Are Beating You to the Vaccine)

SUSTAINABILITY

A Review of 100 Studies Crushes Assumptions about Conflict between Profit and Sustainability

Anthropocene: Sarah DeWeerdt

Glad that's settled. What does this mean for individual companies, and for capitalism? (also see Boards Are Obstructing ESG -- at Their Own Peril)

FUTURE OF CAPITALISM

Business Makes the Case for a Post-Trump Reset

DealBook: Andrew Ross Sorkin

"Mr. Dimon said that one of the few ways that the status quo, and the inequality it created, can be undone is if his peers start advocating for policies that may be against their own short-term business interests... How do you build the support for these types of approaches and policy? Also see:
How Business Can Act as a Force for Good

3 Actions CEOs Must Take to Uphold U.S. Democracy
How the Capitol Riot Thrust Big American Companies Deeper Into Politics
The Country Is Divided but Your Business Could be the Bridge

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