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On this page, you can find articles written by an array of experts and thought leaders within their field, touching onto each of the four subject areas and their interlinked connections: business, social science, natural science and humanities.
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Innovation and the Need for Connection: Entrepreneurs Have Feelings Too
Founder’s Dilemmas Founding a new company is a risky endeavour. You steadily consume your life savings, put your personal and family stability on shaky ground, and have no certainty of success or failure. Key notes On this journey, many new entrepreneurs are prone to missteps. Noam Wasserman’s book The Founder’s Dilemmas explores the typical mistakes…
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Trash Talk: Michael Sandel and How Singapore and Tokyo Keep Their Streets Clean
If you have ever been to Tokyo, you may recognise this scenario: you have just finished your breakfast on the go. An empty coffee cup in one hand, a sandwich wrapper in the other, you search the street corners for a bin to dispose of your litter. You walk a couple of blocks, past bus…
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Japan is Beautiful Every Day
Walking through Tokyo’s National Museum, enmeshed in ancient calligraphy scrolls, pottery, samurai swords and screen paintings, I arrived at one of the very last rooms in the museum. There, a plaque hangs on the wall, describing Japan’s transition from the Samurai era to the Meiji period. A transition from a Japan closed off from the…
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Your Culture Brings out the Worst in Me
A famously expressed idea has been occupying space in my mind these days: There’s more that unites us than divides us It has been used on multiple occasions – most recently by Kamala Harris during her election campaign – but how it is interpreted, I believe, will depend on the intention of the speaker. While…