The Office’s Rainn Wilson on meaning and happiness

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Rainn Wilson was a late bloomer: he landed the role of Dwight Schrute on “The Office” after over a decade of struggling as an actor. But success didn’t solve all of his problems — and it even created some new ones. In this live…

Rethinking Ethics: A Vision for a New Framework Aligned with Human Nature

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Ethics may be best advanced by adapting to, rather than trying to change, human nature. As we reported in our September Newsletter, fraud allegations have been raised against one of Ethical Systems’ past collaborators, Francisca Gino.…

What the Right Gets Wrong About Adam Smith

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What to make of Adam Smith?

The Exploitation of Hollywood’s Writers Is Just Another Symptom of Digital Feudalism

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The current Hollywood writers strike has drawn international attention to the plight of TV and film writers in the streaming era.

Who Pays the Price When Cochlear Implants Go Obsolete?

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In 2021, my research assistant and I interviewed Nikhil, a father in Delhi, about his family’s experience getting their deaf son Vikas a cochlear implant.

The Secrets of Cooperation

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People stop their cars simply because a little light turns from green to red.

3 Organizational Issues Most Leaders Fail to Get Right

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When surveys find workers feeling disrespected at work as a leading reason for quitting, it can be all too easy for leadership to brush this off as either a generational problem (“kids these days”) or something that only HR can address. When…

The Obscure Calculation Transforming Climate Policy

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After long debate, economists and philosophers are reaching consensus on how to value future generations. Barring a mass Homo sapiens extinction event from, say, nuclear war or another disaster, many more billions of humans will…

Banking Culture Reform: Trust, Technology, and The New Workplace

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In this episode of the Bank Notes podcast, from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, host Toni Dechario, a member of the New York Fed’s culture team, speaks with Alison Taylor about her interest in the link between unethical behavior and organizational culture, ethical pressures in finance, the need to do proper behavioral experimental research in real organizations, and more.