Is the Future Economy the Circular Economy?
image by Jack Moreh Humans create a lot of waste. Over the last century, as technology has provided us with machines to make our lives easier and many [...]
Women and Men Declining in the Workforce
A recent article in Bloomberg sounded the familiar alarm: “Modern Motherhood has Economists Worried.” Bloomberg looked at data from 1970-2000 among those aged 25-54, showing women’s increase in the working [...]
Keefe & Pax Ellevate: Investing in Women is Good Business
Keefe & Pax Ellevate: Investing in Women is Good Business Joe Keefe, president and chief executive officer of Pax World Funds, is well known for his commitment to helping women [...]
Preserving and Managing Family Wealth Increasingly a Woman’s Domain
Preserving and Managing Family Wealth Increasingly a Woman’s Domain A recent Wealth Management.com story notes that, according to RBC Wealth Management’s Wealth Transfer Report 2017, the responsibility of managing and [...]
ESG: No Longer "Green Window Dressing"
Corporations have often taken the position that when it comes to sustainability or other socially responsible issues, the costs outweigh the benefits for the bottom line. In his book Capitalism [...]
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is Coming
I’ve referred to topics surrounding the fourth industrial revolution in past blog posts about automation, and disruption in financial services. The fourth industrial revolution is worthy of its own discussion, [...]
Trump’s First 100 Days
President Trump recently hit first 100 days in office. While the media has heavily covered his attempts at immigration and health care reform, coverage about gender issues has been less [...]
New Books in Business and Economics
Among the crop of new books on business and economics, some titles about behavioral economics and reform of US government institutions caught my eye. […]
New Leadership Imperative
NEW LEADERSHIP IMPERATIVE: Create the future workforce In a recent report by Accenture Strategy, Harnessing Revolution: Creating the Future Workforce, research indicates that as different generations enter and exit the [...]
Taking the Long View?
Conventional wisdom suggests that the long-term is the clear path to success when it comes to investing and business strategy. However, the authors of a new study published by McKinsey [...]