
3 inventive ways to end violence against women
It’s been over 20 years since the UN General Assembly committed to eradicating violence against women. And yet today, it’s estimated that one in three women has experienced some form of s...
Stéphanie Thomson is a writer and editor at the World Economic Forum.
It’s been over 20 years since the UN General Assembly committed to eradicating violence against women. And yet today, it’s estimated that one in three women has experienced some form of s...
It’s a long-standing piece of advice: to really succeed at work, you need to be a ruthless, hard-nosed go-getter. Your employees aren’t your friends, they’re there for one thing and that’...
It’s been called the forgotten war: while the rest of the world focuses on the ongoing situation in Syria, the US elections and Brexit, Yemen – the poorest country in the Middle East and ...
Sometimes those who have the least give the most. And that seems to be the case when it comes to one of the defining challenges of our time: the unprecedented number of refugees who have ...
Cada año, 15 millones de niñas son casadas antes de la edad de 18. Las consecuencias de esta práctica son bien conocidas: el casamiento de niñas hace que corran un mayor riesgo de violenc...
The world of work is changing faster and more drastically than at perhaps any other time in recent history. According to research from the World Economic Forum, 35% of the skills necessar...
人们的工作环境如今可能经历着比之前任何一个时期都更为快速而剧烈的变化。根据世界经济论坛的调查,在五年后,使人能在工作中游刃有余的必要技能会有35%的不同。可是如果我们无法预知未来的工作环境是什么样的时候,我们要对此作何准备呢?有哪些技能和专业知识是学生们为了将来取得成功而需要习得的呢?我们访问了五位世界经济论坛全球青年领袖中的专家,了解到了他们的看法。
If the burgeoning market for self-improvement books is anything to go by, even the most successful and self-assured of us are open to receiving advice. The fact is, no matter how impressi...
Few places have done more than Japan to define today’s technological landscape. The laptops we all work from? Toshiba was the first to produce them for a mass market. The emoji you used i...
If the Polish government had got its way, the country would have had some of the most draconian anti-abortion laws in the world. There was just one problem: most people didn’t agree with ...
Back in the pre-internet days, if someone asked you a tricky question, you had a couple of options. You could see if anyone you knew had the answer. You could pull out an encyclopedia. Or...
Forget supercomputers or the latest technological innovation: one of the most impressive machines in the world is right there in your head. While computers might be great at carrying out ...
Google regularly appears towards the top of the “best places to work” lists, and with good reason. The company perks are legendary: free meals and snacks, dog-friendly offices, pods for t...
It’s the world’s third-largest economy, and yet most stories covering Japan focus on the problems it’s facing: an ageing workforce, falling GDP, lost decades. Take this piece from Bloombe...
Nunca ha habido un mejor momento en la historia para nacer mujer, según la candidata presidencial de los EE. UU., Hillary Clinton. No está equivocada: la causa de la igualdad de género ha...