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A careful look at how some firms responded to the Covid-19 crisis reveals a new, more effective supply chain frontier.

Book Capsules, January 2021 Arindam Bhattacharya, Nikolaus Lang, and Jim Hemerling PublicAffairs, 288 pp., $28 This resource offers a look at practices and strategies organizations can adopt as they navigate times of disruption and seek to create go-forward strategies for the future. In examining best practices at play in leading-edge organizations, the authors offer nine strategies for organizational leaders to thrive while confronting daunting challenges. The strategies are designed with th...

Three business characteristics can serve as leading indicators of possible human-rights abuses in the making. For decades, policymakers and corporate CSR departments have undertaken sustained, sincere efforts to clamp down on labour abuses such as slavery, perilous working conditions and wage theft. Sadly, the results so far appear limited, if recent studies are any indication. Far from disappearing, modern-day slavery may be spreading in developed economies, with the United Kingdom reporting...