
Empowering the next-generation manufacturing workforce through AR innovation
Whether it stems from the retiring workforce or challenges in hiring skilled workers, there is currently a labour shortage in the manufacturing sector.
Whether it stems from the retiring workforce or challenges in hiring skilled workers, there is currently a labour shortage in the manufacturing sector.
Roiled by a return of war in Europe, forgotten crises such as Afghanistan, two years of the COVID-19 pandemic and unchecked climate change, the world’s institutions, countries and compani...
Higher education institutions worldwide are undergoing unprecedented digital transformation accelerated by the pandemic. Meanwhile, COVID-19 has also exacerbated pre-existing gender gaps ...
Three converging workplace trends — automation, open talent pools, and increased flexibility — are creating a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform how work gets done. New work mo...
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India is currently looking to rapidly boost its renewable energy (RE) generation from the current 12-13% to over a third of total generation to meet its climate goals by 2030. However, wh...
In 2011, I was co-teaching a course on Corporate Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, when our syllabus nearly went astray. A paper appeared in Harvard Business ...
The Kremlin’s threat to the EU of stopping its gas supply should it not pay in rubles was more than just hot air. In April 2022, it followed through on its promise, cutting off natural ga...
For many, the advances in telehealth driven by the pandemic have improved access to healthcare, but for others, basic healthcare services still elude them. Two years ago, the World Econom...
In the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw unparalleled collaboration between academia, government, industry and regulators. The result was billions of vaccine doses develope...
The severe global shortage of chips threatens to disrupt the manufacturing of life-saving medical devices and systems. If we fail to take immediate action to address this shortage, it wil...
Home to over 660 million people across 10 countries, Southeast Asia is one of the largest and most culturally and geographically diverse regions in the world.
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With the huge uncertainty caused by the war in Ukraine, volatile energy prices and threats to a secure supply of energy, there is a fear that countries and companies will shy away from th...