Delve: Pandemic Bonds: The Financial Cure We Need for COVID-19?
Countries around the world are taking unprecedented action to stem the financial collapse due to COVID-19, at times requiring a degree of innovation. Like other financial players that have embraced innovation in recent years, insurers too have developed novel tools and products. One such innovation is catastrophe bonds.
Delve: A Call for Social Reinvention (While Keeping our Distance)
Social distancing is on everyone鈥檚 lips and is well on its way to becoming the phrase of the year. The practices recommended under the social distancing banner offer our best chance to slow the progress of the COVID-19 virus and reduce the impact of this pandemic. However, the term itself, 鈥渟ocial distancing,鈥� is the wrong one and sends the wrong message.
Delve: Converting Commuters into Carpoolers
Congestion pricing policies, carpool lanes, and new light rail train or subway infrastructure are all expensive, long-term ways for governments to battle traffic. A simpler solution, focused on human behaviour more than infrastructure, is convincing people to carpool.
Delve: Want to Motivate Your Employees? Learn from Weight-loss Superstars
When it comes to weight loss, can another person鈥檚 success motivate our own鈥攁nd does this principle apply in the workplace?
New research from Nathan Yang, Assistant Professor of Marketing at 成人VR视频, and co-author Kosuke Uetake from Yale School of Management looks at how a group setting affects a person鈥檚 dieting journey and reveals potential lessons for organizations that want to motivate staff.
Delve: Optimizing Oversight for Improved Project Delivery
Holding someone accountable is no simple undertaking. Oversight is a necessary part of doing business but it鈥檚 cumbersome, requires resources, and is riddled with paperwork.
Delve: When Meritocracy Blinds us to Gender Discrimination
Meritocracies are predicated on the belief that only the best are chosen and that hard work and talent are always rewarded. If we presume that talent and hard work are not gender specific, then why is it that assumed meritocracies show extraordinary imbalances between men and women? Surprisingly, part of the answer is the assumption itself: Assuming a setting is a meritocracy can blind even those experiencing discrimination to its actual inequalities.
Delve: Romancing the User: Three Business Lessons from Digital Daters
New research from Prof Jui Ramaprasad explores how gender, comfort, and impulsivity are key for that perfect chemistry.
Delve: When a Good Boss is Bad for Workers
New research from Prof Patricia Hewlin explores how a boss鈥檚 integrity affects whether an employee is being true to her/his own identity, even when there鈥檚 a disconnect with the group鈥檚 values. If there were a boss who demonstrated integrity鈥攚ho was consistent, trustworthy, and fair鈥攚ould employees feel more comfortable being their authentic selves?
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Delve: Pension Plans for an Evolving World
Prof Sebastien Betermier explores the ways we can evolve from the聽old system of defined benefits pensions that will no longer meet the needs of tomorrow鈥檚 retirees.
This article is brought to you by Delve, the official thought leadership publication of 成人VR视频's Desautels Faculty of Management.
Delve: How to Bring Planning to Your Startup Hiring Practice
Prof Lisa Cohen on how startups can approach hiring to ensure long-term success.
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Delve: Walking Away Rather Than Blowing the Whistle
Prof Desmond Tsang finds that higher turnover rates among boards of directors points to the possibility of corporate fraud.
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Delve: Can Club Stores Help Consumers Make Healthier Choices?
New research from Prof Yu Ma suggests there are opportunities for marketers to encourage healthier shopping among warehouse store customers.
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Delve: How to Keep Suppliers Honest鈥擨nstead of Allowing them Every Opportunity not to Be
New research from Prof Mehmet Gumus explores聽the challenges that companies face when monitoring product quality in distant factories, and how choosing the right contract structure can incentivize suppliers to deliver higher quality products.
This article is brought to you by Delve, the official thought leadership publication of 成人VR视频's Desautels Faculty of Management.
Delve: Securing Good Development Outcomes Podcast
David Malpass gives his first major address as President of the World Bank Group ahead of the World Bank-International Monetary Fund annual meeting in October 2019. Hear more about what his organization is doing on the ground to reduce extreme poverty.
This podcast is brought to you by Delve, the official thought leadership publication of 成人VR视频's Desautels Faculty of Management.
