Photo courtesy of Orbia Sameer Bharadwaj is CEO of Orbia, a global sustainable solutions company. After earning a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Bharadwaj worked at Dow Chemical, Boston Consulting Group, and Cabot Corp. He joined Orbia, then known as Mexichem, in 2016 and became CEO in 2021, leading its transformation… →

golubovy/Getty Images Should companies still talk about their sustainability efforts — and, if so, how much? According to a July 2025 report, 39% of U.S. companies surveyed had reduced or stopped publicly promoting their sustainability investments even while maintaining or increasing them relative to 2024. This retreat into silence — greenhushing — can undermine a… →

Pla2na/Getty Images AI tools are proliferating as organizations continue to invest in their deployment, but how effective are they at increasing employee performance? Three recent research articles suggest that although AI can surely be useful in the workplace, its limitations are significant and its consequences for human dynamics unclear. Before implementing AI tools, managers should… →

Igor Kutyaev/Getty Images Back in 2019, we found that only 24% of large U.S. companies had “digitally savvy” boards — those with three or more directors experienced in digital technologies. These companies outperformed their peers, with over 30% better performance across metrics like market cap growth. By 2024, a striking shift had occurred: When we… →

In this episode of Me, Myself, and AI, OpenAI’s chief economist Ronnie Chatterji describes how artificial intelligence is reshaping both the economy and scientific innovation. Ronnie discusses the dual economic impacts of AI — the near-term boost from infrastructure investments like chips and data centers, and the longer-term productivity gains as AI tools integrate into… →

Suzanne Muchin rues the day people started referring to their careers as “paths.” “You always talk about a career path, your career journey, your career trajectory. They’re all a vocabulary that suggests you’re supposed to get onto a road and then ride it,” said Muchin, a clinical professor of management and organizations at Kellogg. But… →