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How Laws and Culture Hold Back Socially Minded Companies

Harvard Business Review

In our conversations with business leaders we have heard two recurring obstacles: a culture of short-termism and the fact that corporate law puts shareholders first. Our aim was to see how both law and culture affect how companies think about purpose and long-term thinking. So why don’t they?

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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

The uncertainty-avoidance measure was originally created by Geert Hofstede through a cultural survey of more than 100,000 IBM employees around the world and subsequently confirmed in additional global surveys. The cultural dimensions identified by Hofstede have been used by more than a 1,000 academic studies.