16 must-read stories for the weekend

1. Seven reasons your board may be more sexist than you think. Who gets listened to and who gets overlooked, asks Laura Liswood.

2. What motivates you? From passion to altruism, different factors spur us on to different kinds of success.

3. India’s next economic hotspots. As the new government reboots growth, development will ripple beyond the familiar urban tech centres.

4. “70% of the energy in the universe is made of nothing” . A video interview with physicist Lawrence Krauss on science’s greatest unsolved mysteries.

5. What the Pope and the Millennial generation have in common. The Forum’s young communities meet at the Vatican to discuss how business can improve societies.

6. “I’m a fake. An imposter. I don’t belong here.” This is how women feel in the technology sector, writes Belinda Parmar. So what needs to change?

7. Anti-corporate groups to stop protesting Davos. Greenpeace Switzerland and the Berne Declaration call it a day. (Washington Post)

8. Why I’ll miss protests at Davos. “Public Eye are too proud to admit defeat, and nor should they, because in truth, we have all won.” (LinkedIn)

9. Narenda Modi’s transparency agenda triggers anti-corruption efforts. A new-found urgency in the efforts of corporate India to curb corruption. (The Economic Times)

10. How to overcome social and economic exclusion. A thank you from Pope Francis to the Forum’s “young professionals and entrepreneurs.” (La Stampa)

11. Growth, inequality and social welfare. Data from 117 countries and 4 decades on the importance of changes in inequality.

12. Do female executives make a difference? If women became CEOs of firms with at least 20% female employment, sales per worker would increase 6.7%.

13. Stanford team builds algorithm to describe photos. We’re not sure what it’ll say when you show it your selfies.

14. The trouble with mergers. The Economist re-issues some advice originally given in 1994.

15. Economics is becoming an elite subject for elite UK universities, and is being restricted along class lines, argues the LSE.

16. Does what you Tweet affect how you work? A study on private social media use in the workplace, and whether there are any positive effects.

Author: Adrian Monck is Managing Director of Public Engagement at the World Economic Forum.

Image: This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away from Earth in the southern constellation Carina. REUTERS/NASA/Handout