The role of HR in promoting workplace spirituality

The View From Taft Jose Mari L. Yupangco Workplace Spirituality (WS) has created increased interest and awareness in corporations worldwide. With our complex, conflicting, demanding, stressful,...

If Facebook broke up, would anyone notice?

By Cathy O’Neil
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN if Facebook disappeared tomorrow? Would people suddenly be unable to communicate online? Would the economy screech to a halt? Would anyone be deprived of a good, service, or piece of information that was somehow crucial to their existence?

What is wrong with the Universal Health Care Act, and why it made PhilHealth...

By Oscar P. Lagman, Jr.
Since the declaration of health as a fundamental human right is in the 1948 constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO), the members of...

Rethinking retail

By Marvin Tort
The Senate Committee on Banks and Financial Intermediaries approved on Monday the bill that will let banks sell their bad loans to asset companies, to keep their balance sheets clean. At the same time, the Senate Committee on Trade, Commerce and Entrepreneurship approved the bill that will allow more foreign retailers to start doing business locally.

Empire ambitions

By Philip Ella Juico
The invasion of Ukraine launched by Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin continues without let up four months since it started on Feb. 24.

ASEAN competitiveness through better supply chains, procurement, and logistics

By Charlie Villaseñor
In recent years, with the increasing pace of economic growth in Asia coupled with the slowdown in Europe and the US, the world is...

Misapplied overzealousness

By Teresa S. Abesamis
I don’t remember who said that military intelligence is an oxymoron, or a contradiction in terms.

On the MAP CEO Academy Training for Management Excellence

By Federico M. Macaranas
(Part I) To pursue future-ready Filipinos in the complex 21st century, the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) must return to its raison d’être of...

State capture among the World Governance Indices

By Raul V. Fabella
Daniel Kaufmann was the speaker at the Dec. 1 seminar at the UP School of Economics. He is the “Kaufmann” of the “Kraay and...

On monetary policy: Some known unknowns

By Diwa C. Guinigundo
This broadsheet reported last Monday that the “Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) was widely expected to maintain the key benchmark interest rate at 6.25% on Thursday, amid easing inflation and slowing economic growth.”

Drop the sedition charges

Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III
The filing of sedition charges against Vice-President Leni Robredo and 35 other individuals who are identified with the so-called “yellow opposition” is alarming.

How the Konektadong Pinoy Bill will secure Filipinos online

By Albert Dela Cruz
The Konektadong Pinoy Act, or Senate Bill No. 2699, is a big leap forward in modernizing the Philippines’ digital infrastructure. Certified as urgent by...