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blogs.lse.ac.ukIs freelance work, or the four-day week, the best way to reclaim our time? - LSE Business ReviewMany workers choose to work as freelancers to avoid intense and long work hours. But that is not always what they get. How about a shorter working week instead?

Is freelance work, or the four-day week, the best way to reclaim our time? Many workers choose to work as freelancers to avoid intense and long work hours. But See Pok Loa finds that many freelance workers feel intense pressure to be busy both at work and at leisure. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukHow vulnerable are you to digital scams driven by deepfake content? - LSE Business ReviewAI tools have made creating characters and voices, used by criminals to convince people to part with their money, more dangerous than ever.

AI tools has made creating characters and voices – used by criminals to convince us to part with our money – more dangerous than ever. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukHow organisations can stimulate sustainable behaviour - LSE Business ReviewEmployees who are concerned about climate change can be stimulated to engage in sustainable behaviour. And climate-indifferent employees can be nudged to do so too.

While many citizens have a personal interest in climate change, it is often at work where they feel they can make more of a difference. But employees who are concerned about climate change may not know how to translate this into action at work. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukAI agents are ignoring their charters – that is exactly why we need them - LSE Business ReviewAnthropic, Microsoft and OpenAI have each published a charter setting out the values their AI models should hold. But agents can do what those charters forbid.

Anthropic, Microsoft and OpenAI have each published a charter setting out the values their AI models should hold. But each lab has different priorities, and their agents can disregard the rules anyway. So what is the point? blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukThe hidden uncertainty behind emissions data produced by British supermarkets - LSE Business ReviewBritish supermarkets publish Scope 3 carbon totals. But new climate reporting standards still don't ask how much is measured and how much estimated.

Supermarkets publish Scope 3 carbon totals that include emissions from producing and transporting products. But those reports can mix suppliers’ records with estimates based on industry averages. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukEnding modern slavery will take more than corporate reporting - LSE Business ReviewTackling modern slavery requires companies and public bodies to work together more effectively.

Modern slavery develops where global commercial pressures meet with local labour markets and vulnerable communities. In Britain, labour exploitation has been identified in agriculture, construction, food processing, hospitality, nail bars and car washes. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukDon’t let your AI dashboard drive your corporate strategy - LSE Business ReviewAI-powered dashboards for chief executives are crippling corporate leadership and undermining middle-management.

AI-powered dashboards are pitched as the ultimate tool for chief executives looking for strategic agility. In practice they are crippling corporate leadership and undermining middle-management. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukIs your phone listening to you? “We must be more mindful of the kinds of companies we engage with” - LSE Business ReviewCarissa Véliz describes how tech firms collect and use your data, and explains why reading a physical book is a rebellious act of defiance in the digital age.

Even when companies deny their technology is eavesdropping, should we believe them? blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukIs your phone listening to you? Or do social media firms just know what to serve you? - LSE Business ReviewEdgar Whitley explains why many people believe that their devices are listening to them, how to protect your privacy and how to confuse the algorithm.

Many of us believe that our smartphones are eavesdropping. But they may not need to. Social networks know so much about you and your connections that they can infer, very accurately, what you would like to see. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukIs your phone listening to you? “Everything is organised around the assumption that you will give up this data.” - LSE Business ReviewIn an edited extract from an interview with LSE, Nick Couldry describes how tech firms collect and use your data and where he sees shoots of resistance.

Our economy is organised around the assumption that you will give up your data. And while some of us may be comfortable with personalised adverts, we need to think about the longer-term costs. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukAI is a dangerous risk we should take - LSE Business ReviewThe risk from artificial intelligence must be judged by how it contributes to the portfolio of systemic risk that humanity already faces.

Like other complex human invetions, AI can create outcomes that no-one wants or intends. But while AI does pose dangers, it may be an essential hedge against other catastrophe risks that civilisation faces. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukHow global value chains are reshaping jobs in South Africa - LSE Business ReviewIntegration with global value chains can be critical to the manufacturing industries of developing countries. What impact do those connections have on employment?

Global value chains have transformed how production is organised worldwide. And integration with GVCs can be critical to the manufacturing industries of developing countries. But what impact do those connections have on employment? blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukWhat happens now that Trump and Xi failed to write new AI rules? - LSE Business ReviewGovernments have not decided who regulates AI. Responsibility lies with whoever in your organisation is asked to check the machine’s work before it goes out.

At their meeting last week, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping did not decide who regulates AI. But somebody still has to judge what these systems may be used for, when their output can be trusted and who answers when it is wrong. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukHow America’s tax code subsidises artificial intelligence - LSE Business ReviewAmerica's tax code makes human employment more expensive than the software that may replace it.

23 Sept

The United States has a tax-base problem hiding in plain sight. America's tax code makes human employment more expensive than the software that may replace it. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

21 Sept

What determines which companies become early adopters of AI? blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

14 Sept

We are sleepwalking into a soft skills crisis caused by AI blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

10 Sept

Can a new Chancellor turn Great Britain into Growth Britain? In his first major speech as Chancellor, John Healey set out his vision for driving growth. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

10 Sept

Does working more than you want to cause lasting harm? Or do people eventually get used to it? blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukWhat an early environmental regulation can teach us about the banking risks of today’s green transition - LSE Business ReviewWhen environmental regulation changes the risks facing borrowers, do banks simply lend less – or do they change how they create and allocate liquidity?

27 Aug

When environmental regulation changes the risks facing borrowers, do banks simply lend less? Shams Pathan, Francisco González, Md Rajib Kamal and Steven Ongena reveal how banks adapt to transition-related regulatory shocks. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukHow “trace hiring” can overcome the deluge of AI job applications - LSE Business ReviewAI is overwhelming recruiters with a deluge of job applications. That demands a return to recruiters watching what people actually do.

25 Aug

A job listing that once drew four or five decent resumes now collects 150 to 200 applications in the first 24 hours. As a result, job applicants and recruiters are losing significant time, and trust. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukChatGPT or Zoom – which broke the career ladder? - LSE Business ReviewEntry-level hiring has fallen sharply across white-collar work. One explanation is that generative AI is to blame. But where we work may be equally important.

19 Aug

Entry-level hiring has fallen sharply across white-collar work. An emerging explanation has been that generative AI is to blame. But two significant workplace disruptions arrived at almost the same time, and they need to be studied together. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukTo cut plastic pollution, mandate recycled content and allow for trade and global circularity - LSE Business ReviewTrade and mandates for recyclable plastic can reform supply chains. Labelling used plastic as a “resource”, not “waste”, is essential too.

14 Aug

The current oil crisis could accelerate the adoption of both renewable energy and recycled plastic as a hedge against future shocks. Cross-border trade and mandates for the quantity of recycled material that products must contain can reform global supply chains. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukHow foreign ownership of sovereign debt affects inflation - LSE Business ReviewCentral banks should also treat the financial account of the balance of payments as part of the inflation process.

While central banks typically analyse inflation through domestic demand, supply and expectations, they should also treat the financial account of the balance of payments as part of the inflation process. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukAccounting is evolving in exciting ways, but student numbers are falling - LSE Business ReviewAccounting now sits at the intersection of data analytics, governance, risk, sustainability and strategic decision-making. Despite this, the talent pipeline is narrowing just as more are needed.

Accounting matters more than people think. It now sits at the intersection of data analytics, governance, risk, sustainability and strategic decision-making. But the talent pipeline is narrowing just as more accountants are needed. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukDoes it matter what you eat at work? - LSE Business ReviewWhat, when, where and how we eat can signify many things. Eating healthily might impress your colleagues but doing so on a video call is unprofessional.

What, when, where and how we eat can signify many things. Eating healthily might impress your colleagues but doing so on a video call is unprofessional. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukAI has a serious image problem - LSE Business ReviewIf we want to realise the benefits of AI it is important that the public are not already set against it.

Seven in ten of the British public are worried about the economic impacts of AI and six in ten think it will eliminate more jobs than it creates. One in five even think it will be bad enough to create civil unrest. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukThe film industry underestimates the role of distributors in bringing projects to market - LSE Business ReviewFilm distributors’ reputations are overlooked at the funding stage surprisingly often, even though they closely linked to how films ultimately perform.

28 July

A strong film with famous names is nothing if people cannot watch it. Good distributors are vital to bring projects to market, but as Angelo Tomaselli, Salvatore Torrisi and Joris Ebbers argue, film distributors are often overlooked at the funding stage. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukFitness apps keep users engaged – but do they change habits? - LSE Business ReviewDigital tools like fitness apps can open the door to healthier behaviours but lasting change requires more than a notification.

27 July

Do fitness apps actually change your habits? Every day millions of us receive messages from health apps reminding us to move, but Beatrice Braut, Claire Mollier and Sarah Zaccagni find in their recent study that lasting change requires more than a notification. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukWhat AI’s usurping of the peer-reviewed publications means for medicine and pharmaceutical industry - LSE Business ReviewFor hundreds of years, modern science has relied on peer-review to certify and to distribute new claims. But AI is changing research.

23 July

How is AI changing modern healthcare? Alexander Bedenkov and David Ginkel show how technologies like AI have changed research, what that means for medicine and where publications still retain the most value. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukStrong banks do not guarantee financial stability - LSE Business ReviewFinance has changed since the global financial crisis, with a growing share of credit, liquidity and risk-taking now taking place outside traditional deposit-taking institutions. Gustavo Pessoa shows ...

21 July

The great lesson of the global financial crisis seemed clear: make banks safer and the financial system will become safer. But stronger banks do not guarantee financial stability. Gustavo Pessoa shows how next financial shock may spread before it reaches banks. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukGlobal trade imbalances are back – and increasingly financialised - LSE Business ReviewInternational policymakers are becoming increasingly worried about global imbalances. Lessons from their last significant impact, before the global financial crisis, are useful. But the global economy...

20 July

Trade imbalances still haunt countries like Greece, Portugal and Spain following the 2008 financial crisis. But the global economy and geopolitics have changed in the past 20 years, and Konstantin M. Wacker argues that trade is only one part of the story. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukDoctors must drive the alignment of medical AI solutions - LSE Business ReviewFor AI solutions in healthcare to be trusted they must be developed in collaboration with doctors and be better integrated into workflows

16 July

For AI solutions in healthcare to be trusted they must be developed in collaboration with doctors and be better integrated into the workflows of healthcare professionals. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukFootball’s billion-dollar integrity problem - LSE Business ReviewCompetitions like the World Cup depend on fair play. But the pressure and money behind them can unintentionally distort efforts to truly level the playing field.

15 July

Football’s most valuable asset isn’t broadcasting revenue or superstar players. It is trust. Supporters may buy tickets and devote countless hours. But trust will disappear if sporting merit is compromised. This will be put to test today as England face Argentina. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukWhat the art market reveals about the risks in on-chain finance - LSE Business ReviewBlockchain-based currencies can now buy almost anything, from digital art to a house. But those currencies are themselves volatile, and that volatility passes through to whatever trades on top of them...

13 July

The digital art market is a useful place to watch what happens when money itself is unstable. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukFinland’s co-operative banks offer a unique perspective on resilient finance - LSE Business ReviewCo‑operative banks offer a compelling lens for understanding how institutions adapt when shocks converge.

9 July

How do institutions survive when shocks become too complex for conventional models to handle? Finland’s co‑operative banks offer one answer. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukWorld trade remains dangerously dependent on a handful of shipping lanes - LSE Business ReviewDespite the digitisation of the global economy, world trade is still only as resilient as the physical routes it depends on.

9 July

The conflict in Iran has been reignited by disagreements about control of a critical shipping lane. But the Strait of Hormuz is not the only chokepoint making global trade vulnerable. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukMaking sense of climate solutions to help finance the low-carbon transition - LSE Business ReviewUnderstanding what constitutes a “climate solution” has important implications for investors seeking to allocate capital to finance the low-carbon transition.

6 July

Defining climate solutions narrowly risks preventing capital from flowing to activities essential to the transition. But including activities that are not directly linked to emissions reductions can lead to overstated climate benefits and weaker accountability. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukEurope’s startup boom still needs an exit plan - LSE Business ReviewEurope is producing world-class founders, frontier technologies and ambitious scale-ups. The task now is to develop their exit plans.

6 July

Across AI, fintech, deep tech and climate technology, European companies attract global talent, customers and capital. The challenge now centres on whether Europe can retain more of the value these scale-ups create. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukHow can global trade contribute to world peace? - LSE Business ReviewDoes trade itself, and the organisations that govern it, have a significant role to play in fostering peace within and between fragile states?

3 July

The notion that business activities can contribute to peace, alongside the crucial role of trade in promoting peaceful relations and democratic values, warrants attention. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukTechnological change means women in India are now increasingly outliving men - LSE Business ReviewThe “gender paradox of progress” happening not in spite of, but because of, India's technological progress and public health measures.

1 July

India’s health transition has saved millions of lives. But progress may be creating an unexpected inequality: rising male excess mortality. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukHow different drug regulators construct global authority – and why it matters for firms - LSE Business ReviewGlobal drug regulation is converging technically but diverging politically. America’s loosening grip on the global pharmaceutical system has created a newly competitive opportunities for the EU and Ch...

30 June

The Food and Drug Administration presents itself as the gold standard, while the European Medicines Agency sees Europe as a governance-based quality bloc and China’s National Medical Products Administration frames China as an engine of scale and velocity. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukThe purpose of the corporation - LSE Business ReviewWhat is a company for? Is it explained by shareholder primacy’s maximising of profits or stakeholder theory’s integration of ethics into corporate purpose? In a new book Sandy Pepper argues that neith...

29 June

What is a company for? Is it explained by shareholder primacy’s maximising of profits or stakeholder theory’s integration of ethics into corporate purpose? A new book by Sandy Pepper of LSE pits ethics against economics. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukHow to live and work in extreme heat - LSE Business ReviewWith Europe in the grip of an unusually intense heatwave, what can be learned from regions more used to extreme heat?

26 June

With Europe in the grip of an unusually intense heatwave, what can be learned from regions more used to extreme heat? blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukHow the war in Iran changes China’s decarbonisation path - LSE Business ReviewAs happened in the 2000s, the security implications of relying on expensive imports through geopolitical bottlenecks will encourage China to invest in renewables.

25 June

Two decades ago China's fears about the vulnerability of the Strait of Malacca, through which half of its imported oil had to pass, led directly to its support for clean technologies. Today the Strait may be different, but the fundamental issue is the same. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukHow tricky is it to destroy an international financial centre? Brexit and the City of London - LSE Business ReviewWhilst London’s international influence has diminished with Brexit, it has generally remained resilient and worst-case scenarios have not (yet) materialised.

24 June

Whilst London’s international influence has diminished with Brexit, worst-case scenarios have not (yet) materialised. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

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23 June

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blogs.lse.ac.ukControl without credibility – the post-Brexit migration paradox - LSE Business ReviewEnding free movement was presented as “taking back control”: immigration would fall, policy would become more predictable and public confidence would be restored.

23 June

Immigration was central to the Brexit debate. Ending free movement was the route to “taking back control”: immigration would fall, policy would become more predictable and public confidence would be restored. Ten years on a look at what actually happened. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukHow ordinary business infrastructure supported a fraud network spanning America and Nigeria - LSE Business ReviewThe money stolen in online fraud moves through the same banks and platforms legitimate businesses use.

19 June

How hybrid digital fraud is organised, narrated and sustained — and how the social conditions which make these crimes possible are encoded in the lyrics of Afrobeat. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

blogs.lse.ac.ukHow to improve the Bank of England’s forecasts - LSE Business ReviewAre the Bank of England’s forecasts as good as they can be? Or could these alternative modelling ideas deliver better forecasts?

18 June

Successfully forecasting movements in the Bank of England’s policy rate matters for both consumers and businesses. But are the Bank’s forecasts as good as they can be? blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...