Harvard doesn’t grade perfectly — but it often does learning right. I hope that the faculty subcommittee on grading won’t take it all away.

In the 1987 Oliver Stone classic Wall Street, Michael Douglas’ role as the brazen corporate raider, Gordon Gekko, not only won the actor an Oscar for his performance but iconized his character as the ...

Chess, a zero-sum game, here seen played at a strategy session at Camp David in 1978 between the Israeli prime minister and the US National Security Advisor. The concept of zero-sum thinking ...

I didn’t put a stake in the ground when my cofounders and I started DMi Partners and proclaim that our company was not going to be built on a zero-sum culture. At some point in the last few years, ...

This is the introduction to Blighty, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our correspondents turn their gaze on the latest developments in Britain. Sign up for Blighty. Matthew Holehouse, our ...

Zero-sum thinking has spread like a mind virus, from geopolitics to pop culture. Credit...Photo illustration by Pablo Delcan Supported by By Damien Cave Damien covers global affairs. He is based in ...

Zero-sum thinking is outdated. The future of growth is inclusive, abundant and collective. Unsplash+ Our economic narrative has been hijacked by a dangerous falsehood: the notion that the economy is ...

Is global growth a win for all? Discover how understanding zero-sum and non-zero-sum dynamics can help investors and policymakers make smarter decisions. Is global growth a win for all, or just a win ...

Some situations in life are zero-sum. On Super Bowl Sunday, two teams take the field but only one will emerge victorious, Vince Lombardi Trophy in hand. In a presidential election, only one candidate ...

LOOK at the news or social media these days, and you might see a pattern. Stories are about groups in conflict, competing for limited resources, with the gains for some framed as losses for others. If ...