AI can be a transformational tool in our fight against climate change, says Sims Witherspoon, a leader at the AI research lab Google DeepMind. Using wind power as her case study, she explains how powerful neural networks can help us...

You've always been told that pi is 3.14. This is true, but this number is based on how we measure distance. Find out what happens to pi when we change the way we measure distance.

When the dotcom bubble burst, hotelier Chip Conley went in search of a business model based on happiness. In an old friendship with an employee and in the wisdom of a Buddhist king, he learned that success comes from what you count.

Why do people feel so miserable and disengaged at work? Because today's businesses are increasingly and dizzyingly complex -- and traditional pillars of management are obsolete, says Yves Morieux. So, he says, it falls to individual...

With her gorgeous, haunting photographs, artist uldus Bakhtiozina documents dreams, working with daily life as she imagines it could be. She creates everything in her work by hand -- from costumes to stages -- without digital...

In this episode probability mathematics and chess collide. What is the average number of steps it would take before a randomly moving knight returned to its starting square?

Most companies operate on a set of policies: mandated vacation days, travel guidelines, standard work hours, annual goals. But what happens when a company looks less to control and more to trust? Patty McCord, the iconic former chief...

Millennials and Gen Z will inherit 30 trillion dollars of wealth in the coming decades, and what they do with their money will have an incredible impact on the future of the planet, says impact investor Miguel Goncalves. He makes a case...

Today we’re going to discuss what it means for a place to be “developed”. Development is often associated with economic success — that is countries with higher standards of living and material wealth like those found in Europe and North...

Social psychologist Thomas Curran explores how the pressure to be perfect -- in our social media feeds, in school, at work -- is driving a rise in mental illness, especially among young people. Learn more about the causes of this...

Companies in the US spend billions of dollars each year on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, but subtle (and not so subtle) workplace biases often cost these initiatives -- and the people they're meant to help -- big time by...

Marketing - How to Measure the Impact of Social Media

What is Performance Management in an Organization? ​“Performance management is the continuous process of improving performance by setting individual and team goals which are aligned to the strategic goals of the organisation, planning...

This Video Explains the Role of Law in a Nations Economic Strength

This video provides an overview of variable overhead analysis, its importance in decision making and budgeting, and the metrics used to measure and analyze these costs.

What is Validated Learning in a Lean Startup? This is the process of testing your assumptions and hypotheses about your product, market, and customers, and learning from the feedback and data you collect.

Control or controlling is a core function of manageers. Whare the Categories of Manager Control? Controlling can be defined as that function of management which helps to seek planned results from the subordinates, managers and at all...

What is the Control Function of Management? Controlling is a primary goal-oriented function of management in an organization. It is a process of comparing the actual performance with the set standards of the company to ensure that...

Common size analysis is used to compare financial performance of two different companies or units. It is used to put the compared organizations on the same footing for comparison.

There are various assumptions made when employing the DuPont formula to compare the performance or Return on Equity between Companies. The primary assumption is that the companies being compared are similar in nature.

This video explains the concept of cost volume profit (CVP) analysis and the relationships between various metrics used in this analysis. The video delves into key metrics such as contribution margin, net income, variable expense ratio,...

What is the Hersey Blanchard Situational Leadership Model? The Situational Leadership Model, is a model created by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard, developed while working on Management of Organizational Behavior. The theory was first...

A gap analysis is the process that companies use to compare their current performance with their desired, expected performance. This analysis is used to determine whether a company is meeting expectations and using its resources...

What is Forecasting in business? In the simplest terms, forecasting is the attempt to predict future outcomes based on past events and management insight.