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If Data Is Money, Why Don’t Businesses Keep It Secure?

Harvard Business Review

If businesses are to continue using personal data to create value for themselves and for their customers, they will need to manage it as carefully as they would money, in four key ways. Similarly, trust erosion triggered by Edward Snowden’s revelations of government surveillance in mid-2013 are estimated to have cost U.S.

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Teaching Teenagers to Develop Their Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

A 2013 survey of more than 123,000 students at 153 colleges showed that more than half experience overwhelming anxiety, and about a third feel intense depression during the school year. Business leaders are beginning to recognize that how people manage their emotions matters to their society’s economy. You and Your Team.