by Leticia Gasca | Mar 8, 2019 | English
Davos. The name says it all: it’s a small alpine town, but at the same time it’s an event and a symbol that awakens passions. Davos is the venue of the most important annual event organized by the World Economic Forum, which brings together millionaires, politicians,...
by Leticia Gasca | Mar 8, 2019 | English
The average human spends a third of his adult life working, and technology is about to radically transform the nature of that activity to which we dedicate so much time. That is why, during my participation in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, I decided...
by Leticia Gasca | Mar 6, 2018 | English
Complex research fails in complex ways. This is what I have learned from the new book by Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel published in October 2016. “Failing in the Field: What we can learn when field research goes wrong,” gathers stories about field research...
by Leticia Gasca | Mar 6, 2018 | English
Around 1990, US military strategists created a four-letter word to describe the global situation at that time. That word is VUCA, which comes from the words volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. It’s been over 100 years and we are still living in a...
by Leticia Gasca | Mar 6, 2018 | English
Week one of the Trump administration was one of the most alarming in US history, Ruth Marcus noted in her Washington Post column. Trump kicked off his first hours of his administration by deleting the sections dealing with climate change and LGBT rights from the White...