Updated Statement Moves Away from Shareholder Primacy, Includes Commitment to All Stakeholders. WASHINGTON – Business Roundtable today announced the release of a new Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation signed by 181 CEOs who commit to lead their companies for the […]
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The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow by McKinsey Global Institute
The US labor market looks markedly different today than it did two decades ago. It has been reshaped by dramatic events like the Great Recession but also by a quieter ongoing evolution in the mix and location of jobs. In […]
AI Powers a New Innovation Machine By BCG
Innovation, meet automation. This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. In a few short years, artificial intelligence (AI) and its subfield, machine learning (ML), have gone from futuristic vision to near-mainstream capability at many large companies, including in […]
The Five Rules of Digital Strategy By BCG
A lot of ink has been spilled telling the stories of companies felled by digital disruption— think Kodak or Blockbuster. What gets far less attention is the way traditional incumbents are winning at the digital game. For companies like Starbucks, […]
Getting physical: assessing climate risks By BlackRock Investment Institute
A series of recent extreme weather events — from hurricanes and wildfires in the U.S. to heat waves in Europe and floods in Japan — have put a spotlight on climate-related risks. We offer a new set of tools for […]
Winning The‘20S: A Leadership Agenda For The Next Decade By BCG Henderson Institute
The winners in business have shifted markedly in the last decade. When the 2010s began, the world’s ten most valuable public companies by market capitalization were based in five countries, only two of them were in the tech sector, and […]
Global real assets outlook 2019 By BlackRock
Attractive fundamentals continue to drive a great migration to the asset class, but a changing macroeconomic climate requires careful navigation. With capital raising outpacing deployment, competition for real assets is strong. The fundamentals underpinning performance remain broadly positive, however, with real […]
2019 Global Investment Outlook By BlackRock
We identify three new market themes and update our asset views for 2019. We see growth in the global economy and corporate earnings slowing, and expect the Federal Reserve to become more data dependent in increasing rates. For investors, greater […]
Visionary Strategy By BCG Henderson Institute
WHAT Rare but incredibly effective, a visionary approach empowers a firm to create or recreate an industry with some degree of predictability by seeing an opportunity and pursuing it single-mindedly. Being first confers the advantage of superior size that comes […]
The heat is on for tech stocks amid U.S.-China cold war By BlackRock Investment Institute
The U.S. and China are the two global leaders in technology, and the tech sector is the largest constituent in both countries’ stock markets. Deteriorating relations between the two superpowers, with tech dominance a key issue, are sparking investor concerns. […]