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Why gender inclusion is a imperative for future-ready workplaces
The PwC Workplace Inclusion Indicator Index reveals a persistent gender inclusion gap, which impacts women’s ability to seek promotions and develop new skills. Inclusion is essential for organizational agility; empowering women to embrace new technology and future-proof their careers aids business competitiveness in the face of global trends.
Mohamed Kande: The first African to lead a Big Four firm
Initially head of the consulting branch, Mohamed Kande has been appointed to replace Bob Moritz as global chair of consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). There's more to this story Get unlimited access to our exclusive journalism and features today. Our award-winning team of correspondents and editors report from over 54 African countries, from Cape Town to Cairo, from Abidjan to Abuja to Addis Ababa. Africa. Unlocked. Subscribe Now cancel anytime Already a a subscriber Sign In
Accelerating The Net Zero Transition: Four Priorities For Business
Data shows that the world needs to reduce the carbon intensity of economic activity by 15.2% a year – 11 times faster than the global average achieved over the past two decades. The question is how? Corporate leaders increasingly embrace the need to act. They recognise that failing to address climate change would both undermine trust with their stakeholders – from employees to investors – and compromise their ability to deliver sustained outcomes.
Bob Moritz on LinkedIn: #cop27
Global Chairman PricewaterhouseCoopers Int. at PwC 9m Over the last couple of days at COP27, I have had the privilege to be part of panels and action-oriented discussions about the need to turn climate commitments into action - faster and at scale. With the impacts of climate change intensifying, it is clear that the world needs to ramp up efforts to adapt to global warming, alongside efforts to reduce it.
Public-private collaboration: the key to building resilience and driving systems change
By Bob Moritz, PwC Global Chairman According to the World Economic Forum, the biggest global threat over the next few years is extreme weather. Yet despite the risks, only 40% of CEOs in PwC’s 24th global CEO survey say that they have factored climate change into their approach to managing risks. This has to change. To limit warming to 1.5°C, the world needs to decarbonise 11 times faster than the global average achieved over the past two decades.
Accelerating the net zero transition: Four priorities for business
As Climate Week gets underway in New York, our data shows that the world needs to reduce the carbon intensity of economic activity by 15.2% a year - 11 times faster than the global average achieved over the past two decades. The question is how? Corporate leaders increasingly embrace the need to act. They recognise that failing to address climate change would both undermine trust with their stakeholders - from employees to investors - and compromise their ability to deliver sustained outcomes.
The true test of climate resilience
Tough questions for every business leader by Bob Moritz, Global Chairman of the PwC network When I sit down with business leaders, many tell me they believe it’s important to manage the impacts of climate change on their business. But what does it mean for a business to be truly climate resilient? Our teams are seeing firsthand how forward-thinking companies are taking action to help ensure enduring success in a business environment that is being rapidly transformed by climate challenges.
4 Ways to Bridge the Global Skills Gap
The global youth employment crisis has implications for social stability and equality that exceed anything we have experienced in our history; 1.3 billion youth — the largest young generation in the history of the planet — are about to attempt to enter the workforce. But are they ready for it?
PwC's Bob Moritz on ways to summon public and private unity to advance net zero
Partnerships between the public and private sector fuel the "Flywheel of Progress." Tackling climate change calls for unity on a scale not seen since World War II. Broad systems change is required to achieve net-zero by 2050. Climate change is the most formidable challenge we’ve faced since World War II. While the events were devastating, the war also gave rise to an unparalleled united front both within and between countries that holds a legacy unto itself.
Ensuring digital access for global youth
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Case for change: Ensuring equal opportunity digital access for global youth
There is a gap between the digital skills people have and those needed to live, learn, and work in the digital world. The need to upskill — to bridge this gap — is a complex problem that will require government administrators, educators, and business leaders to come together. To learn more about upskilling your own workforce, go to Upskill my workforce for the digital world.
Case for change: Ensuring equal opportunity digital access for global youth
A version of this article appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of strategy+business. When it comes to the future of work, digital skills are only part of the story. Resilience and creativity, empowered by supportive leadership, are essential to a thriving, innovative workforce. A new vision requires cultural changes to help you gain the trust of your employees and new technologies to drive a lasting impact in the marketplace. To learn more about empowering your own workforce, click here.
Equal Pay and The Role of Men
Marking the very first International Equal Pay Day and the 6th Anniversary of the HeForShe movement, join this dynamic conversation on the current status of the global gender wage gap and the actions men can take to accelerate its end.
La razón por la que debemos aprender más
Déjenme empezar aclarando dos puntos sobre el actual ambiente que nos rodea. El primero es que en un mundo de 7.7 mil millones de personas -de las cuales 3.3 mil millones están desempleadas en la actualidad- actualizar sus habilidades es el comienzo de un nuevo viaje. A largo plazo, todo el mundo va a necesitar mejorar sus habilidades de alguna forma.
The CEO confidence premium, in praise of the purposeless company, and more
Ideas that work April 23, 2019 Share: s+b essential reading 20/20 foresight Many business leaders need to improve their perceptual acuity. Here’s how you can develop the ability to look around corners — and become a catalyst for change. by Ram Charan advertisement Featured article The confidence premium In PwC’s annual global survey of chief executives, CEOs’ optimism about their own company’s prospects is a leading indicator of broader economic prosperity.
The confidence premium
The headlines coming out of the 2019 World Economic Forum meeting at Davos dwelled on the mood of pessimism and gloom. But there were also signs of optimism and action. The initial steps of a more inclusive path to global prosperity are becoming clearer. PwC’s own Annual Global CEO Survey, unveiled on the eve of the World Economic Forum for the past 22 years, is one source of this new understanding.
How should corporate boards respond to climate change?
Climate change is visibly disrupting business. It is driving unprecedented physical impacts, such as the increased frequency of extreme weather events affecting business infrastructure; it is also harming marine life and food supply chains. At the same time, policy and technology changes that seek to limit warming and reduce the associated physical impacts - when not applied smartly - can also cause disruption to prosperity, jobs and business.
THIS year, the world joins China in celebrating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening-up. After four decades of momentous transformations, the nation now ushers in a sustainable new era. Today, as China casts open its doors even wider to the world, Shanghai stands on the threshold, welcoming more productive engagement globally.
3 things women need to succeed in their career - according to women
Over 3,600 women around the world from employers representing 27 different industry sectors shared their views on their career experiences and aspirations. More than two centuries. That’s how long it will take to achieve gender parity, according to the World Economic Forum’s latest Global Gender Gap Report. There is widespread agreement we can’t wait that long.Organisations have talked about gender balance for a very long time, yet progress is slow.
3 reasons to be cheerful according to thousands of CEOs
You don’t have to look far for signs that we live in tumultuous times. Geopolitical uncertainty, cyberattacks, and jobs threatened by artificial intelligence are just a few of the topics that dominated headlines in 2017. But despite these harbingers of gloom, a record-breaking percentage of CEOs told us they are optimistic about the economic environment worldwide, at least in the short term.
10 Principles for Leading the Next Industrial Revolution
A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2017 issue of strategy+business. It isn’t often that the broad infrastructure that underlies industrial civilization undergoes a dramatic transformation. But just such a change appears to be happening now.
Four concerns that keep CEOs awake at night
As we become more interconnected and interdependent, concern about a business trust gap has grown: 58 percent of CEOs worry that lack of trust in business could harm their company's growth, up significantly from 37 percent in 2013. This breakdown in public confidence creates risks for individual companies, but also political, economic, and social systems around the globe. As with just about everything, technology plays a role here too.
4 concerns that keep CEOs awake at night – PwC LLP
Since we conducted our first CEO Survey twenty years ago, the world has reshaped itself faster than we can reshape ourselves: from a massive increase in trade and financial flows and global online traffic to improved living standards. Inequality among countries has decreased, and one billion people have emerged from extreme poverty.
Seven Steps for Smarter Electronic Channels
Members are increasingly dependent on electronic channels to research financial topics and conduct transactions. And savvy credit unions know it’s critical to leverage the time members spend on their screens to drive deeper relationships and increase sales. These seven steps can help you do both. 1. Make good use of your home page Although topic-specific search can give visitors a “side door” into your site, the home page is still considered prime real estate.
What Every CEO Will Worry About This Year
When it comes to the global economy and their companies’ growth prospects, optimists are few and far between. Only 27% of CEOs believe global economic growth will improve in the next 12 months, with 23% convinced it will actually decline over that time, according to PwC’s 19th Annual Global CEO Survey released on Tuesday of 1,400 executives spanning 83 countries. Moreover, only 35% are very confident their companies’ revenues will grow this year – the lowest percentage since 2010.
PwC Chair Bob Moritz: What Mellody Hobson taught me about race in corporate America
It’s not easy or comfortable for most of us to talk about race, but it’s something we should not avoid, especially in light of recent events in Charleston, Baltimore, and Ferguson. If we are to make any progress on this national issue, we must talk about it openly. So earlier this week, I sat down with Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, for a candid conversation about race.
How corporate America can fight cybersecurity threats
Last week, President Obama, business leaders, consumer and privacy advocates, and law enforcement officials gathered for a summit at Stanford University to talk about cybersecurity. This conversation is long overdue. By any measure, cybersecurity is the biggest common threat organizations face. It is also the one where we see the largest gap between threat and preparedness.
PwC CEO Bob Moritz: What’s blocking India’s path to superpower status
As President Obama wraps up his three-day visit to India this week, it’s a fitting time to take a closer look at a country that may well be the world’s fastest-growing major economy over the next two years. Though confronting great challenges, India has amazing opportunities with the promise of shared prosperity for its 1.25 billion citizens.
The U.S. Chairman of PwC on Keeping Millennials Engaged
Reprint: R1411A PwC’s workforce is strikingly young: Two-thirds of its employees are in their twenties and early thirties. In the past, the assumption has been that most hires will eventually move on to other firms or other careers, while a few will be promoted all the way up to partner—rewarding and justifying years of long hours in service to clients.
We Are Still Waiting
Bob Moritz Bob Moritz Global Chairman PricewaterhouseCoopers Int. at PwC Published Oct 3, 2013 Here we are, again. Huge portions of the government shut down on Tuesday over a partisan budget fight, forcing approximately 800,000 federal employees onto unpaid leave. And that is the tip of the iceberg: Washington also faces yet another debt ceiling deadline, a recurring trigger for brinksmanship and partisan strife during the past several years.
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