BCG Henderson Institute

BHI Fellows are frequent speakers at the world's top business gatherings, sharing their perspectives on themes like strategy, technology, organization, economics, and beyond. Learn more about the #BHISpeakersBureau and request a BHI speaker for your next event: https://lnkd.in/eYXv437H

How should leaders navigate the new multipolar world? In a new TED talk, Nikolaus S. Lang suggests that companies must embed geopolitics into their organization and everyday corporate decisions. https://lnkd.in/e2h5Gx4v CC: TED Conferences | #Leadership #FutureOfWork #2030Vision

Research suggests the need to tip the balance in favor of workers - increasing the enjoyment that nurses, teachers, factory workers, and other deskless employees experience at work. https://lnkd.in/eWh798JW In their latest article Debbie Lovich and Gabrielle Giessen’s studies show that when deskless employees enjoy their work, they’re 62% less likely to consider leaving their jobs. They suggest that to boost employee satisfaction without sacrificing productivity, it’s up to business leaders—not just HR—to redesign the work experience. CC: BCG on People and Organization | #FutureofWork #MakingWorkWork

As #ArtificialIntelligence adoption marches on, the demand for computing power is projected to intensify. https://lnkd.in/gp2HYvU9 Yet in a recent article published by Fortune, François Candelon, Azeem Azhar, Dr. Riccarda Joas, Nathan Warren, and David Zuluaga Martínez suggest that computing power will likely remain accessible through 2028. If so, the challenge for businesses is how to turn compute into a source of advantage--which is primarily a question of imagination. The stakes are higher now than before as #computing is put to work through today’s powerful—and tomorrow’s likely more potent—#AI systems. CC: Exponential View

"Just like human beings, businesses age. And, like organisms, they fight aging at every level. […] But the truth is, as you age, you’ve got to change how you behave, how you manage, and how you invest." https://lnkd.in/e5HBMtRK Listen to Aswath Damodaran—Professor at NYU Stern School of Business—as he discusses his new book, The Corporate Lifecycle, with Martin Reeves on our Thinkers & Ideas #podcast.

NOW AVAILABLE: Inspiring the Next Game – Reinventing Work https://lnkd.in/eC7GmJNg The ninth volume of the Inspiring the Next Game book series (co-edited by Martin Reeves & Debbie Lovich, published in partnership with De Gruyter Business & Economics), builds on research from BCG Henderson Institute fellows and contributors and aims to help leaders reinvent work by providing forward-looking perspectives on all aspects of people strategy.

Just as an exoskeleton enhances human movement beyond natural limits, #GenAI empowers workers to tackle tasks that would otherwise be out of their reach. https://lnkd.in/dXSNZs87 The most recent field experiment conducted by the BCG Henderson Institute in collaboration with scholars from Boston University and OpenAI’s Economic Impacts Research Team shows that GenAI can empower workers not just to enhance existing skills, but to perform tasks previously beyond their capabilities. In a new article published by Fortune, François Candelon, Lisa Krayer, PhD, Daniel Sack, Emma Wiles, and Riccarda Joas argue that as #GenerativeAI increasingly functions as a capability exoskeleton, it will democratize expertise, helping businesses, especially smaller ones, compete through an augmented workforce and shifting talent strategies toward competencies that drive effective use of this technology by workers.

"A big bet is a strategy that has the potential for high impact, but also cannot be predicted. You need these big bets – but you have to [..] approach them differently than you do your normal, incremental strategies." https://lnkd.in/ebaGWiAt Listen to John Rossman—writer, business advisor, and keynote speaker—as he discusses his new book, Big Bet Leadership, with Martin Reeves on our Thinkers & Ideas #podcast.

Congratulations to Simon Johnson on receiving the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences together with Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. Listen to our 2023 interview with Professor Johnson about his book, Power and Progress on the Thinkers & Ideas podcast: https://lnkd.in/gMQYSD58

#CorporateChange is notoriously difficult and often fails. One reason is that success depends only on how change is executed—the quality of “change management.” https://lnkd.in/eH_MBe2r In a new BCG Henderson Institute article, Martin Reeves, Barbora Havelková, Vítor V. Vasconcelos, Simon Levin, and Adam Job, PhD demonstrate with agent-based modeling that change must instead be treated as a strategic problem, varying the approach to change depending on the type of challenge encountered and the internal characteristics of the company.