Why the need to proactively counter the impact of hubris on organizational leadership has never been greater.

Why dealing with turnover requires understanding how the traditional foundation of the workplace has been cracked by a seismic shift in the employer-employee relationship.

Given the turmoil in the cryptocurrency sector, some say the blockchain revolution is over. Others think market setbacks and implementation challenges will eventually be overcome, potentially enabling the mass adoption of a decentralized “Web3” that will revolutionize how people work, play, and earn a living. So, what should executives think? In this Ivey Business Journal interview, Alex Tapscott discusses what has happened since the publishing of .....more

A major reason for the purchase of Pornhub owner MindGeek by Ethical Capital Partners (ECP) is the chance to profit by winning back the support of Visa and Mastercard, who previously cut off Pornhub from payment services. ECP’s partners appear to be trying to put an ethical spin on MindGeek’s operations, aiming to drive growth by promoting a commitment to ethical leadership along with the adoption of tools for detecting and deterring illegal online .....more

In this Ivey Business Journal Q&A, Ivey Business School Professor Tima Bansal—one of the sustainability field’s most cited scholars—explains why there is nothing anti-capitalist about sustainability, while making the case for old-school capitalists to embrace Ivey’s ambitious Innovation North initiative, which aims to save the planet (and capitalism) by disrupting traditional approaches to innovation. She says sustainability suffers from two issues. .....more

<p style="color: rgb(197, 183, 131);"><strong> AWARD WINNER - Responsible Leadership Category at European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition</strong></p><br>In early 2021, McKinsey & Company (McKinsey) agreed to pay US$573 million to end US state-level investigations into claims that it had helped exacerbate the global opioid crisis. Tom Peters, an influential and highly .....more

Teaching note for product W27694.

BlackNorth founder Wes Hall’s rags-to-riches journey is the quintessential story of liberal market capitalism rewarding resilience and hard work. But Hall’s success story has a dark side, since he climbed a corporate ladder that wasn’t designed to help him reach the top. Hall has warned companies to expect an open season of investor activism on companies that fail to take equity, diversity, and inclusion issues seriously. In this Q&A with Ivey .....more

An alarming number of leaders have been failing to serve as role models for future generations at a time when positive examples of leadership have never been more important. Like everyone, leaders make mistakes, which we often attribute to bad morals. But in most cases, these mistakes occur as consequences of poor judgment resulting from weaknesses in character. Most organizations fail to understand the key role that developing and maintaining character .....more

As the second wave of COVID-19 was ramping up in 2020, a three-day virtual summit organized by the Ivey Academy brought together senior HR professionals from across Canada to discuss working on the front lines of organizational disruption. Day 1 examined equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) efforts. As 2020’s civil rights protests demonstrated, the institutional programs conducted around EDI in the past have failed to deliver what is expected today, .....more