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...
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...
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...
Three Steps to Getting on Track in the Race to Net Zero
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sytze Dijkstra and Monique de Ritter
The UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow saw a welcome spate of...
Not Lost in Translation: Making the Data Make Sense
Interview with Fleur Hicks, award-winning CEO of management consulting firm onefourzero
Where can managers turn for help in navigating the vast sea of data that...
AI Inside? Five Tipping Points for a New AI-based Business World
By Duco Sickinghe and Jacques Bughin
The “softwarisation” of our economies has continued unabated since Marc Andreessen’s note in its article in 2011 “Why software...
Old and New Takes on Selection Interviews
By Adrian Furnham
Nearly all selection processes involve the famous trio: application form, references and interview. Both the selectors and the candidates seem to like...
​“Operation Boomerang” ​Let Gracefulness Activate Good Karma to Bring Them Back to you
By Avi Liran
​Dale Carnegie said “Life is a boomerang. What you give, you get.”  How can employers use this theory to turn The Great Resignation into...
How Technology Commons Revolutionise Industry Foundations: The Story of the Open Compute Project (OCP)
By Hervé Legenvre and Steve Helvie
In this article, we will feature a largely ignored cornerstone of digital transformation - the adoption of technology commons: open-source...
We all have Mental Health with Kyan Health’s Vlad Gheorghiu
Closing out the "Starting Up" theme we talk to Vlad Gheorghiu, co-Founder and co-CEO of mental health start-up Kyan Health. Departing from his own...
Working From Home: 3 Things You Should Know So You Don’t End Up Living...
By Steven P. MacGregor
Working from home has put our health, wellbeing and workplace performance to the test for over a year now. My work...
The Daily Reset: 366 Nudges to Move Your Life Forward
From the McGregor on Chief Wellbeing Officer column
Steven McGregor's new book, The Daily Reset: 366 Nudges to Move Your Life Forward, now available: www.dailyreset.me.
To celebrate the start...
The Use of Dopamine to Enhance Resilience in a Post COVID-19 Era: Lessons From...
By Simon L. Dolan and Kyle M. Brykman
Introduction
Resilience is an emerging concept in business and psychology. Its origins are in the school of thought...
The Industries Across Europe Where Women Are Succeeding
Many years ago, gender gaps in Europe's labour market were prevalent. But with more and more organisations supporting gender equality, more women are now...
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...
Humanity First! The AiTH Manifesto: Building the Road to a Human-Centred Digital Society
By David De Cremer, Devesh Narayanan, Andreas Deppeler, Mahak Nagpal, Jack McGuire and Jess Zhang, Centre on AI Technology for Humankind at NUS Business...
How European Companies can use the Cloud to Increase their Competitiveness
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sybille Berjoan, Surya Mukherjee and Gargi Chakrabarty
Most European business leaders think of cloud as shared, public data centers to host workloads...
A Voyage Into Premature Aging: The Role of Chronic Stress and its Principal Correlates
By Prof. Simon L. Dolan and Prof. Mario Raich
IntroductionÂ
The idea of stress and aging was born many years ago while one of the co-authors of...
Half of UK Women Have Taken a Greater Interest in their Finances as a...
MORE than half of women in the UK have taken a greater interest in their finances post-Covid according to new research, but they’re still...
Helpful Tips for Becoming a More Successful Female Entrepreneur
From prejudice and discrimination to common misconceptions, women in business are presented with a unique set of challenges compared to their male counterparts. And...
Breaking Down Business Resilience, Post-Pandemic: The Data Reveal Surprises—and a Blueprint for Moving Forward.
By Jacques Bughin and Francis Hintermann
The global pandemic, in addition to generating massive harm to people’s health and communities, split the business world in...
The Path Forward to a Unified Risk Framework
By Kamil J. Mizgier
The closure of a terminal in China at the world’s third-busiest container port is one of the last examples of supply...
Breakthrough or Breakdown? Diagnosing chronic stress and risk factors in elite athletes in view...
By Simon L. Dolan and Sara Martinez Espejo
Why are elite athletes more susceptible to stress?
Can sports athletes be prepared to better cope...
Will China lead the twin transformation post-covid?
By Jacques Bughin and Sybille Berjoan
The Covid-19 pandemic has led many corporations to retrench in the short term—but the saying goes that no matter...
How European Companies Can Become Growth Leaders
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sybille Berjoan and Regina Maruca
Accenture’s recent survey of 700 C-suite executives of large businesses in Europe reveals confidence that new global...
Human Uniqueness At The Dawn Of Intelligent Machines
By Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Dr. Dave Ulrich and Claudio Cisullo
Every generation wants to improve on the previous generation; however, this generation risks...
Distractions, Decisions and Domesticity: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of WFH
By Adrian Furnham
Whilst the number of teleworkers increased linearly since the beginning of the millennium, it has been the Covid-19 pandemic and the compulsory...
From Experience to Belonging with ServiceNow’s Sally Sourbron
Rounding off our first theme this year of "Thriving Business" we talk to the VP of Global Talent at ServiceNow EMEA, Sally Sourbron. We...
Powering Costing with Artificial Intelligence: The case of Vodafone Procurement
By Hervé Legenvre, Gavin Hodgson and Govind Khandelwal
The present article describes how the Vodafone Procurement Company (VPC) has adopted Artificial Intelligence technology to boost its...
What do Babies, Astronauts and Executives have in common? with Oracle’s Yazad Dalal
In a continuation of the "Starting Up" theme we talk to Oracle's Head of EMEA Strategy for Oracle Cloud HCM and 'Oracle for Startups'...
Smart Moves for Europe’s Energy Intensive Industries
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sytze Dijkstra, Lasse Kari and Gargi Chakrabarty
Europe needs to keep producing chemicals, steel, and cement while reducing emissions from those industries....
The Mindful Entrepreneur with Malte Krohn
Kicking-off our Q2 theme of "Starting Up" we talk to Malte Krohn, a design and innovation expert and author of the forthcoming book, The...
People Assessment in the Digital Age
By Adrian Furnham
How have technical, social, economic and legal forces influenced the business of people assessment? New technologies used in assessment include smartphone and...
The Psychology of Start-Ups
By Adrian Furnham
Every generation likes to believe that they are different from those that came before them – “new and improved” as advertisers like...
Looking Forward to the Roaring 20s with L’OrĂ©al’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...
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...
Episode 36: Stronger People, Stronger Society with Arla’s Claus Flensborg
We make a return for 2021 and a new theme of "Thriving Business." First up is Claus Flensborg, Global L&D Director at Arla Foods....
Top Female Leaders Special Feature for International Women’s Day Celebration
In celebration of International Women’s Day, The European Business Review wants to honour all the powerful women who have taken the world by storm...
Focus on Value: What Your Company Does Matters more than Where It Sits
By Rachael Bartels and Kathleen O’Reilly
Companies everywhere must find new sources of value creation both inside and outside traditional industry boundaries.
For decades, industry definitions...
Using the Triaxial Model of Values to Build Resilience in a COVID-19 VUCA World
By Anat Garti and Simon L. Dolan
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic began at the end of 2019 in China and quickly spread globally. Millions of...
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...
Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises through the Synergy of AI and Blockchain
By Yan Pang
The ability to make effective use of AI technology has hitherto remained in the province of large enterprises, with their access to...
Human-Algorithm Collaboration in Managerial Decision Making
By Tessa Haesevoets, David De Cremer, Kim Dierckx and Alain Van Hiel
Most would accept that there is a role for both humans and AI...
The Service Revolution, Intelligent Automation and Service Robots
By Jochen Wirtz, Werner H. Kunz and Stefanie Paluch
Are there parallels between the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century and the changes now being wrought on twenty-first-century society...
Watched Over by Machines: AI and Surveillance at Work
By Andreas Deppeler
The recent transitions towards having company personnel working at home while remaining digitally connected have sometimes been portrayed as furthering the ideal...
A Focus on the Relationship between AI and Humans
An Introduction to the Special Report on AI and Humans by AiTH, NUS Business School
By David De Cremer
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) promises...
Humanising Robots Increases Consumer Satisfaction and Forgiveness of their Failures
By Kai Chi (Sam) Yam and David De Cremer
Want your customers to have a positive, forgiving attitude towards your robot employees? Then make your...
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...
Raising The Ethical Bar: Ethical Audits and Positive Culture Transformation
By Simon Dolan, Steven Hawkins, Chad Albrecht and Bonnie Richley
While most organizations have a code of conduct (or a code of ethics), many...
[Podcast] Episode 35: Building Authentic Communities with Standing on Giants Co-Founder Robbie Hearn
We finish the year with our final reflections on community with Standing on Giants co-Founder Robbie Hearn. Discussing cases from Airbnb to giffgaff we...