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June 02, 2017 5 Questions to Ask About Corporate Culture to Get Beyond the Usual Meaningless Blather By Bill Taylor All leaders should be able to answer them.

Finance & Accounting Why Finance Needs More Humanity, and Why Humanity Needs Finance Mihir Desai, professor at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, argues for re-humanizing finance. He says the practice of finance, with increasing quantification, has lost touch with its foundations. But he says finance can be principled, ethical, even life-affirming. And demonizing it or ignoring it means that the rest of us – those not in finance – risk misunderstanding it, which has all kinds of implications for how we make decisions and plan for our futures. Desai is the author of the new book, "The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return." He also writes about finance and the economy for hbr.org. Motivating people New Managers Shouldn't Be Afraid to Express Their Emotions by Kristi Hedges Authenticity can inspire your team. Security & privacy 11 Things the Health Care Sector Must Do to Improve Cybersecurity by Rebecca Weintraub, Joram Borenstein Out-of-date technology makes the industry more vulnerable. Marketing Has Google Finally Proven That Online Ads Cause Offline Purchases? by Niraj Dawar And what it means for marketing and for privacy. Productivity Bots Won't Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They'll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves by Michael Schrage What if programs like Siri gave you data-driven career advice? Stress Don't Let Shame Become a Self-Destructive Spiral by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries No other feeling is more corrosive to the self.

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