This week, The Intercept reported that Blackstone, a gigantic investment firm whose CEO, Stephen Schwarzman, belongs to Business Roundtable, is the majority owner of a business that makes its money by helping people to burn the Amazon rainforest. Will the Business Roundtable continue to look the other way?
Jonathan Cook: Welcome to This Human Business, a podcast representing the movement to reform business culture, moving it away from its obsession with digital efficiency to find new ways of working. Conventional business writing has a tendency to engage in what, in last week’s episode, …
Understanding emotion is vital to success in business, but how can businesses come to grips with emotion, effectively and ethically? What do scientific studies have to teach us about attempts to automate the study of emotion, and what are the human alternatives?
Welcome to a special episode of This Human Business, a podcast dedicated to the movement to reform business culture, counterbalancing the drive for wealth through the machinery of industry by reasserting human values. This morning, Americans woke up to a surprising headline from the Washington …
On Monday, August 19, a new episode from the podcast This Human Business will confront the dark side, the light side, the absurd side of emotion in business.