The surge of the COVID-19 Delta variant, driven overwhelmingly by unvaccinated people, is causing all sorts of problems for businesses that were hoping to return to pre-pandemic operations this fall. […]
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Back to news homeBusiness digs deep for sustainability
To address growing ESG expectations, businesses will need to change the way they operate across all dimensions: from making strategic choices to implementing the new direction to reporting progress […]
State of flux
Where there’s change, there are new possibilities — and opportunities to take action, transform, and move forward. But in a new normal, in which circumstances change by the day, […]
The surprising link between creativity and risk
Some of the links between creativity and risk are pretty self-evident. Creativity is all about trying something new, exploring the unknown, and accepting uncertainty and the possibility of failure. In […]
The new equation for total reward strategies
Recently, a major US insurance broker with 20,000 agents started to question why so many were leaving the company—and taking their business books with them. The answer lay in the […]
Why bigger isn’t always better in banking
Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power by Zachary Karabell, Penguin Press, 2021 Businesses often find it difficult to sustain their positions over a long period […]
When molehills are worse than mountains
Service industry missteps are inevitable, but not all are created equal. For example, if an airline loses a passenger’s luggage or denies a passenger a seat on an overbooked flight, […]
Why we need a “Take Your Manager to Care-Work Day”
The daily onslaught of challenges faced by caregivers has been one of the biggest forces shaping work over the past year. Whether they are dealing with children engaged in remote […]
How Sage Group is supporting resilience in small and medium-sized businesses
The Inside the Mind of the CEO interview series explores a wide range of critical decisions faced by chief executives around the world. For more insight, see PwC’s CEO […]
The stakeholder-shareholder debate is over
The coronavirus pandemic has created significant distortions in our sense of time. But let’s rewind to August 2019, a safer, long-ago era, when arguments about masks were more focused on […]