Paul J. Zak: doing the math on trust
Paul J. Zak is answering age-old questions about the evolutionary and scientific - actually neuroscientific - basis for identifying and establishing...
Kate Vitasek
Kate Vitasek is an international authority for her award-winning research and Vested business model for highly collaborative relationships. She is the author of six books on the Vested model and a faculty member at the University of Tennessee. She has been lauded by World Trade Magazine as one of the “Fabulous 50+1” most influential people impacting global commerce.
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Robert Kurzban: why everyone else is a hypocrite…
Robert Kurzban, Ph.D., an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Psychology Department, is a proponent of evolutionary...
Hart, Holmstrom: Contract theory and incomplete contracts
Professors Bengt Holmström (MIT) and Oliver Hart (Harvard) received the 2016 Nobel Prize in economic science in October for their work in the realm...
Horacio Falcao and the value of value negotiation
Professor Horacio Falcão, a Senior Affiliate Professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD, warns companies should not start – nor necessarily end – on...
Q&A: Kate Vitasek, University of Tennessee & Vested (Part 2)
To read the first part of this interview, click here. O: With all of that in mind, what are the implications for the global business services model?...
Q&A: Kate Vitasek, University of Tennessee & Vested (Part 1)
One of the most famous figures in the global outsourcing arena, Kate Vitasek is also – not coincidentally – one of Outsource’s most popular...
David Faulkner: the value of a cooperative strategy
University of London Professor David Faulkner has written extensively about the need for cooperative, rather than purely competitive, strategic...
Akerlof and Shiller: the free market giveth, and it taketh away
The “invisible hand” of the market could be giving you a sharp slap more often than not, according to the Nobel laureates George A. Akerlof and...
Stewart Macaulay: pioneer for relational contracting
Stewart Macaulay – Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Law School – occupies a unique place in the evolution, awareness and...
Deirdre McCloskey: Are Markets Moral?
Economist and philosopher Deirdre McCloskey has some thought-provoking and highly nuanced takes on innovation and ethics in the commercial arena....
Jean Tirole: The science of taming powerful firms
Jean Tirole, the French professor of economics who recently received the Nobel Prize, is one of the most influential modern economists for his...
Clay Shirky: Sharing changes everything
Clay Shirky, New York University professor, author, and a leading thinker on the effects of the internet on society, delves into the disruptive...