How to demonstrate social value when you’re making a profit

Knowing what to measure as part of the social ROI can help firms even in less obviously ethical fields
Apprenticeships bring returns for young people with low-medium qualifications

However, pay varies among different sectors, which contributes to an earnings gap between men and women
Firms look at job candidates’ previous experience, but does it predict anything?

They’re probably eliminating good applicants, and not really screening out future poor performers
How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students – Book Review

The book discusses the responsibilities of elite institutions regarding inequalities among their students
Algorithms writing academic books? What gives?

Science is deeply social, and scientists rely on trust and the transfer of tacit knowledge

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Apprenticeships bring returns for young people with low-medium qualifications

May 21st, 2019

Portrait of a lady: the female entrepreneur in England and Wales, 1851-1911

May 17th, 2019

How railways aided early democratic social movements

May 14th, 2019

Millennials are some of the worst hit by social mobility decline in the UK

May 8th, 2019

Management

How to demonstrate social value when you’re making a profit

May 22nd, 2019

Companies look at job candidates’ previous experience, but does it predict anything?

May 20th, 2019

When employees are ideological misfits

May 14th, 2019

Why boredom might not be a bad thing after all

May 8th, 2019
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Accounting

Disclosure helps project creators get crowdfunding on Kickstarter

May 15th, 2019

Introducing valueism and social contract accounting

March 28th, 2019
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Capitalising or expensing: R&D accounting affects the amount that firms invest

March 14th, 2019

How the rhetoric in decision-making processes affects the world

March 4th, 2019

Finance

‘Human plus artificial’ intelligence: the future of work in the investment industry

May 10th, 2019

European integration and TARGET2 imbalances: fixing the design flaw

April 25th, 2019

Should the European Central Bank issue its own digital currency?

March 21st, 2019

The UK’s departure could lead to a fragmentation of EU capital markets

February 23rd, 2019

Career & Success

Our digital malaise: distraction is costing us more than we think

April 19th, 2019

The economics of attractiveness: teenagers with acne do better in school and later in the labour market

April 18th, 2019
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Who gets to occupy the corporate C-suite?

March 6th, 2019

Positive ways to address the gap in your CV after you take time out to raise a family

February 27th, 2019
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Information & Technology

Algorithms writing academic books? What gives?

May 18th, 2019

Blockchain’s security weakness lies in the very thing that makes it secure: cryptography

May 16th, 2019

Using economics to explain YouTuber popularity

May 13th, 2019

How internet companies are tackling online harm on their platforms

May 11th, 2019

Business Research Impact

When EU university researchers lost the full rights to their innovations

August 14th, 2018
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Why an open mind on open science could reshape human knowledge

January 8th, 2018
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Why much of academic business research remains irrelevant for business

November 21st, 2017

Is leadership research betraying leaders?

October 24th, 2017
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Business History

Portrait of a lady: the female entrepreneur in England and Wales, 1851-1911

May 17th, 2019

How railways aided early democratic social movements

May 14th, 2019

Canada’s supply management system: lessons from Britain’s Corn Laws

March 20th, 2019

Gutenberg’s moving type propelled Europe towards the scientific revolution

March 19th, 2019
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Leadership

The culture of overconfidence

May 16th, 2019

How change helpers succeed: pay attention to your own process

May 2nd, 2019

Change leaders can either create solutions or help people find their own

April 22nd, 2019

Do we even know what ‘follower’ means?

April 10th, 2019
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Gender

Marriage equality boosted employment of both partners in US gay and lesbian couples

May 9th, 2019

Men’s incomes still largely determine a household’s one-per-cent status

May 4th, 2019

Bias and belief in meritocracy in AI and engineering

April 3rd, 2019

The mandatory pay gap reporting regulation needs to go broader and deeper

March 16th, 2019

Future of Work

‘Human plus artificial’ intelligence: the future of work in the investment industry

May 10th, 2019

Exploring the debate on the future of work: the end of management?

May 1st, 2019
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Working in the ‘platform economy’: what is it really like?

March 7th, 2019
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The challenge of dealing with ‘double disruption’: Brexit and technology

February 6th, 2019
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Sustainability

Solar geoengineering: what if countries could move the earth’s thermostat?

April 17th, 2019

US factories are polluting less, but regulation rollbacks threaten air quality

March 1st, 2019

Sustainable finance in troubling times: five actions to prevent a crisis

February 20th, 2019

Choosing policies for higher fuel efficiency

January 17th, 2019

Work Issues

‘Human plus artificial’ intelligence: the future of work in the investment industry

May 10th, 2019

Protest-oriented unionism seems to be receding in France

May 6th, 2019

Exploring the debate on the future of work: the end of management?

May 1st, 2019
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‘We are ready to try a four-day working week’

March 22nd, 2019
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Book Reviews

The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students – Book Review

May 19th, 2019

Standing Rock: Greed, Oil and the Lakota’s Struggle for Justice – Book Review

May 12th, 2019

Transformations of Trade Unionism: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Workers Organizing in Europe and the US, 18th-21st Centuries – Book Review

May 5th, 2019

Before the Neoliberal Turn: The Rise of Energy Finance and the Limits to US Foreign Economic Policy – Book Review

April 28th, 2019

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