strategy and business

The powerful measures for improving the workplace in our cover story, “Good Work,” by PwC organizational experts Bhushan Sethi and Carol Stubbings (page 74), are buttressed by an even more powerful underlying premise: To recruit great talent, compani

Robots will play a critical role throughout the modern workforce. A recent PwC study of 29 countries estimated that on average, the proportion of jobs at high risk of automation will be roughly 20 percent by the late 2020s, and 30 percent by the mid-

The traditional method used by social workers to help the homeless is a conveyor belt model, which moves people methodically from street, to shelter, to permanent housing. Few service providers ever questioned this basic model. Yet any experienced so

At many large organizations, employees have the opportunity to participate in groups that bring together coworkers with various commonalities. According to estimates from the Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion (EARN), mo

When a startup matures to the point where it has a killer product, a clear and sizable market, and a robust distribution channel, it has the opportunity to become a “scaleup” — a world-changing company that touches millions or even billions of lives.

A decade ago, being a digital company often meant simply adopting and using IT, or setting up a website, or tacking a “.com” to the end of the name. Today, being digital, like being online itself, is an all-consuming experience. It means having a min

IN the last few years, business leaders have turned their search for creative, innovative talent into something of an arms race. They understand the competitive advantage of being a highly rated place to work, and they are striving to show just how m

Almost 20 years ago in a strategy+business article, my father, C.K. Prahalad, and his colleague Stuart L. Hart debuted a simple but radical idea. They argued that the 4 billion poor people around the world represented a vibrant consumer market, that

LEADERS TODAY ARE WELL AWARE that their organization’s culture is an asset that must be managed with purpose and care. The trouble is, there isn’t a playbook that makes it obvious how to do this. Sometimes, even the most well-meaning CEOs don’t fully

AS RECENTLY AS THE 1980s, many publicly traded U.S. corporations idealistically sought to spread their wealth among their employees. Generous benefits such as profit sharing, stock ownership, lifetime pensions, career-long training, and even job secu

There can be few more eye-catching signs of the economic vibrancy of Southeast Asia than competition for ride-hailing services on the streets of its biggest cities. In Jakarta, the bustling capital of Indonesia, it is hard to miss the green-helmeted

In 2008, Daniel Hulme started Satalia, a company that uses data science, machine learning, and optimization (making the best use of resources) to build customized platforms that solve tough logistics problems involving products, services, and people.