By Willie Pietersen
This article will lay out a practical leadership process for creating an adaptive enterprise by mobilizing a dynamic cycle of four steps: learn, focus, align, and execute. These steps build on one another and are repeated to create a dynamic cycle of renewal that I call Strategic Learning…
The leadership [...]
By Jennifer Aaker and Victoria Chang, Stanford Graduate School of Business
In early 2007, Barack Obama was a little-known senator running for president against Democratic nominee and household name, Hilary Clinton. But on November 4, 2008, Obama, 47, was the first African American to win the election against Republican candidate, John McCain, becoming the 44th [...]
By Andreas Tesch, Atradius
After the economic turmoil of the past two years, the press is keen to let us know that the recession is, in most countries at least, technically over. But what does that mean?
Seemingly desperate to grasp at some good news after the economic turmoil of the past two years, the business pages [...]
Economic recovery in China, India, and elsewhere in the region could be the strongest source of sustained global growth for years to come.
In September 2008, the global financial crisis hit Asia like a tidal wave, flooding in from the U.S. and Europe. Within weeks, Asian GDP growth rates began to tumble: China’s annual growth rate [...]
By Lloyd Timberlake, WBCSD
What would a world increasingly shaped by sustainable development issues look like? In fact, what would a “sustainable” world look like?
Try to imagine a world of 9+ billion people where all can meet their needs in ways that do not destroy planetary systems. Now try to imagine why a group of business [...]
By Richard Morrish, MIG Investment SA
The credit crisis has placed the BRIC and particularly China and Russia to the forefront of global policy decisions. Things have changed with China and Russia both now holding large amounts of global currency reserves which is in direct contrast to the US, which is holding most of the global [...]
EBR Exclusive
Q: Swiss Life Network is one of the leading global employee benefit networks. Tell us more about the history of Swiss Life Network.
Swiss Life Network has been created about 50 years ago to offer multinational companies risk coverages for their employees on a worldwide basis and with an optimal pricing through international experience [...]
By The European Business Review
EBR: Tell us about your career history, how long have you been at the Price Waterhouse Coopers and how you became the Chairman of the UK firm?
Ian Powell: I’ve been here quite a long time. I joined the firm originally in 1977 in our Birmingham office. I was in audit right [...]
