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Learning and wellbeing: A visit to the World Innovation Summit on Education (WISE)

“Before the invention of cooking, we spent most of our lives chewing.” I laughed out loud, with quite a few others, in the vast...

Less digital, more well? A conversation on digital wellbeing with data scientist of the...

By Steven P. MacGregor I still remember the anticipation of opening the pack. I’d often look at the five cards side-on first to see if there...

Choosing Your Path: DBA vs. PhD – Empowering Your Future in Management Education

By Prof. Jean Luc Cerdin, Prof. Simon L. Dolan and Prof. Michel Kalika PhD or DBA? As the world of work evolves, this analysis explores...

Advantages, Limits And Strategies For Online And Offline Collaboration

By Fernanda Arreola and Pierre Daems During the period of confinement, organizations around the world were forced to develop new tactics and strategies for orchestrating...

Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud What Stones Can Teach Us about...

By Christopher Surdak In their 1960’s hit song, “Get Off of My Cloud,” Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones lament about others around them ruining...

Current Development in Psychometric Tests

By Adrian Furnham Finding the right person who is well suited for a job position is vital in any organisation’s success. There are numbers of...

Grace Woo, Founder, Pixels.IO

Since I could remember, my grandma has always explained to me that I have control over nothing except what is in my own head...
risk

The Better Boards Podcast Series: Is Your Board Adapting to a Dynamically Changing Risk...

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. Recent research revealed that 87% of board members believe market...
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Bridging the Silos to Better Manage Risks

By Kamil J. Mizgier In every industry sector, companies are striving to overcome organisational hurdles to enhance their efficiency and productivity. Within the risk management...
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Women In Leadership 2020, 4th & 5th March 2020, Riyadh, KSA,

BE BRAVE, ADAPTIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL In the evolving culture GCC has witness an advancing women’s economic contribution and opportunities. Empowering women legally and politically allows...

Key Changes In Management: Implications From The Corona Crisis, Particularly On Family Businesses And...

By Dr. Peter Lorange   Introduction In this paper I shall discuss what I see as some major implications for management practices when it comes to several...
Spying

Trust, Treason and Treachery: The Psychology of Spying

By Adrian Furnham and John Taylor “In the world of intelligence, it is trust not betrayal which dominates the mindset” What exactly do spies do? What...

Reimagining Enterprise IT for an Uncertain Future

By Jeanne G. Harris, Allan E. Alter, Stéphane J.G. Girod and Iris A. Junglas The role of the information technology department is under scrutiny in...
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Strategic Insights: Taking Over a Start-Up vs. an Established SME

By Fernanda Arreola, Damien Guermonprez, and Renaud Redien-Collot The skills required to successfully lead one type of enterprise may not fully apply or be relevant...
Intelligent Enterprise

The Rise of the Intelligent Enterprise

By Jacques Bughin, Philippe Roussière, and Praveen Tanguturi As more traditional companies are investing in AI, we explore best practices used by leaders to transform...
Jobs – and what they Taught me

Jobs – and What They Taught Me

By Adrian Furnham A good education is all very well, but there are some lessons you can’t learn in the classroom. Adrian Furnham recounts his...

[Podcast] Episode 30: When the Disruptor is Disrupted with Uber’s Matt Wilson

We're back! Kicking off the Q3 theme of Travel we talk to Matthew Wilson, Associate General Counsel EMEA and APAC at Uber about the...
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Reimagining Employment: Navigating the Promises and Perils of Artificial Intelligence

By Dr. Simon L. Dolan, Dr. Mario Raich, and Pedro César Martínez Morán The best thing ever to happen to humanity – or the worst?...
Designing Culture for 202,000 Employees at Santander

Designing Culture for 202,000 Employees at Santander

By Steven P. MacGregor Dan Strode couldn’t believe Monday had rolled around again so fast. Sleep had been at a premium during a busy ‘working’ weekend...

Looking Forward to the Roaring 20s with L’Oréal’s Ronny Kelders

In a continuation of the "Thriving Business" theme on the Chief Wellbeing Officer podcast we talk to Global Head of Learning & Development at...

The Coronavirus Threat – The issue of reopening our economies or continuing the lockdown,...

By Dr. Peter Lorange Over the last few months, almost all countries in the world have been faced with the challenge of how to handle...
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“Net better Off?” Why companies should scale new, tech-based flexible work practices

By Jacques Bughin, Sybille Berjoan and Yuhui Xiong By 2022, Shopify, a well-known global next-generation e-commerce platform had secured a perennial flexible work arrangement scheme...
perfume industry

Smells Like Patchouli!

By Fernanda Arreola and Johann VITREY-TARDIF Innovation is essential, yet not always easy. This article, based on lessons from the perfume industry, discusses how to...
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Artificial Intelligence: Just Who Is In Charge Around Here?

An Exclusive Interview with Professor David De Cremer, Founder and Director, Centre on AI Technology for Humankind, NUS The employment of artificial intelligence is proceeding...
Lack of Innovativeness

What if Your Business Model Was to Blame for Your Lack of Innovativeness!

By Fernanda Arreola, Raphaël Maucuer and Adrien Terlier Innovation is a crucial driver of success for organizations. It is a tool for nurturing a competitive...
Investment

Impact Investing – What is new now?

By Peter Lorange Chairman Lorange Network and S. Ugelstad Invest President Emeritus, IMD, Lausanne Intro Today, there is ever-increasing awareness of the need to factor environmental...
Artificial Intelligence

Enhancing Operating Models’ Artificial Intelligence Quotient (AIQ)

By Hamilton Mann  As organisations tap into the power of Generative Artificial Intelligence to improve business outcomes, it is imperative to examine how it affects...
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Introducing The Better Boards Podcast Series

The European Business Review is proud to partner with The Better Boards Podcast Series! Managed by Dr Sabine Dembkowski, a trusted board advisor who has...
Well-Being at Work Challenges and Solutions for Mental Health and Risk

Well-Being at Work Challenges and Solutions for Mental Health and Risk

By Dr. Simon L. Dolan The well-being of employees is a critical component of organizational success. The multifaceted challenges that hinder mental health and risk...

Rama Mani, Founder, Theatre of Transformation Co-Founder, Rising Women Rising World

Through my transformative art, I’m aspiring to shift the old paradigm that governed politics, economics and society so far and destroyed human life: ‘the...

Fads and Fashions in Management

By Adrian Furnham In this article, the author shows that many fads and fashions in management are short lived and based upon flimsy evidence, yet...

Ethel Cofie, CEO, EDEL Technologies

Life is full of challenges, and one of the early lessons that I learnt, is the fact that life does not give you what...
Switching Off the Always-On Culture

Switching Off the Always-On Culture

By Avi Liran and Marianna Pascal In mid-November 2021, Portugal made it illegal for bosses to contact employees after work. Legislators wanted to protect employees from...
Beautiful Female Manager is Walking Pass Her Business Colleagues while working, experiments to optimize AI and algorithmic attachments.

Algorithmic Attachment: How AI-Based Employee Monitoring Shapes Workplace Trust, Autonomy, and Well-being

By Madeleine Roantree and Adrian Furnham Although AI-driven monitoring and performance tools are designed to optimise productivity, they may have an adverse effect on how...
OpenAI

Why is OpenAI Moving Towards a Closed Source Strategy?

By Hervé Legenvre and Erkko Autio This article is part two of the ongoing series—The AI Power Plays—that explores the fiercely competitive AI landscape where...

Making China Your Top Priority

By Gong Li, Henry Egan and Andrew Sleigh Companies have never had such an array of options when it comes to investment opportunities in the...
On Building Inclusive and Equitable Cultures in the Boardroom and Throughout the Organisation

The Better Boards Podcast Series: On Building Inclusive and Equitable Cultures in the Boardroom...

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. There are many types of differences and diversity, and not...
ChatGPT

Chatpocalypse Now: with ChatGPT the Question is Not, “Is this Technology Ready for Us?”...

By Christopher Surdak, JD The rise of AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants is transforming the way we communicate with businesses and each other, with ChatGPT...
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Synergy or Conflict? Lessons for managers on how to successfully adopt AI to augment...

By Jakob Stollberger and David De Cremer Artificial intelligence undeniably offers the potential to improve decision-making, at least in certain contexts. In this article, AI experts Jakob Stollberger...

Counterwork Behaviours

By Adrian Furnham Counterwork behaviours – CWBs – include fraud, misconduct, and work avoidance cost organisations billions every year. In this article, Professor Furnham discusses...

Captain Dunsail to the Rescue! As Technology Advances We May Finally Be Forced to...

By Christopher Surdak Christopher Surdak argues that in order for businesses to earn the highest returns on information technology, they must focus their investments on...

How Productive Is Generative AI Really?

By Jacques Bughin Generative artificial intelligence is invading the corporate suite and boardroom, surrounding the pros and cons of its use in the enterprise. The...

How Europe Can Rebuild Skills and Generate Growth

By Tim Cooper, Athena Peppes, Mark Purdy and Matthew Robinson Europe is facing a jobs and unemployment crisis that is unprecedented in recent times • Since...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: Why Story is Mission Critical for Boards

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. A crucial yet often overlooked aspect of board effectiveness: stories....

In Times of Uncertainty Investing in Innovation Helps: When Knowledge Makes Confident!

By David De Cremer If there’s one feeling that has been omnipresent for all of us, it must be the sense of uncertainty. The last...

Are You – And Your Company – Prepared For The Future Of Work In...

Assessing Your Level Of Preparedness In 10 Key Domains1 By Simon L. Dolan, Alex Makarevich and Kristine Marin Kawamura This article describes 10 key dimensions that...
Business Self-Cannibalize During Digital Transformation

How Should a Business Self-Cannibalize During Digital Transformation?

By Jacques Bughin and Nicolas van Zeebroeck Engaging in digital transformation is a dilemma. Either the transformation is aggressive enough to scale,- but brings the...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Navigating Misjudgement – A Practical Framework for Better...

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. This episode draws neglected attention to a decision-making error that...

Solving Marketing’s Inventory Crisis

By Paul F. Nunes and Joshua Bellin Just-in-time manufacturing was adopted shortly after World War II to save companies from drowning in excess inventory as...
The Overconfident Leader

Arrogance, Hubris, and Narcissism: The Overconfident Leader

By Adrian Furnham There is Freudian psychological and psychiatric business literature on narcissism. We are now used to discussing our politicians as well as business...