Supply Chain Management – Greater EVA Potential than Any Other Function
Interview with Theodore P. (Ted) Stank, Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee
With the onset of the global pandemic, academic institutions have...
Crisis? What Crisis? Why European Companies Should Double Down on AI Now
By Jacques Bughin, Francis Hintermann, and Philippe Roussière
While in practice, it takes time for a tech revolution to unfold, multiple signs show the AI...
The Rise and Fall of Supply Systems: From Global to Regional?
By Gilles Paché
The war in Ukraine is a major geopolitical crisis whose first economic repercussions, particularly in terms of inflation, were quickly felt in...
Certainty of Uncertainty: 2022 in Review
By Emil Bjerg
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Energy crisis in Europe. Three Prime Ministers in two months in the UK. Persistent protests in Iran and...
Robot Travel Agency: A Warm and Technological Welcome
The time is ripe for technology to bridge the information gap between newly arrived travelers, their holiday accommodation, and their chosen tourist destination. Enter...
Let’s STRIDE Towards UN SDG-led Innovation
By Mike Cooray, Rikke Duus, Joanne Carmichael, and Marius Sylvestersen
It has never been more urgent for entrepreneurial, public, and private organisations to join forces...
Payke: High Tech to Enrich the Japan Experience
Payke is an innovative solution for visitors to Japan that uses product translation technology to enrich the tourism experience. Its Travel Support service adds...
Why Mastering AI is Harder than You Think and Four Essential Behaviors to Get...
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Philippe Roussiere, and Praveen Tanguturi
Powered by recent investments, European companies are on pace to collectively lead the world in artificial intelligence...
What Are Payment Acceptance Rates, and Why Do They Matter?
By Artur Zaremba, Product Owner at ECOMMPAY
In the world of online and digital payments, the term “acceptance rate” (also known as approval rate) refers...
Next-Gen Education: Teaching Humans How to Thrive in a World of Intelligent Machines
By Sean Culey
In July 2022, I had the pleasure of presenting a keynote on “the future of work” to over 200 head teachers at...
How to Create a Successful Global, Online MBA: The Case of ESMT Berlin’s Online...
ESMT Berlin is the only top-10-ranked European business school offering a fully online, global MBA. So what makes their online MBA unique? A talk...
Delivering Deliverability: Your Email is Only as Good as Your Email List
Interview with Liviu Tanase, the founder of ZeroBounce
It’s been around for a while now but, arguably, email is still one of the the most...
Manage or Co-create? Time to Choose
By David Weitzner
Today's leaders have a choice to make: encourage their workers to be “partners in co-creation” or swim against the tide while clinging...
Relationship-Building with Disabled Entrepreneurs in the Context of Research
By Julien Billion and Claire Doussard
Entrepreneurs with disabilities are not really visible in the intellectual, political, and economic spheres. This makes it difficult to...
Five Ways of Reinventing CSR under Contemporary Capitalism
CSR is intimately connected with the way that capitalism is practised, and poor CSR outcomes are often the result of shortcomings of contemporary capitalism....
The Global Quest For Talent: The Prospects Are … Mixed
Interview with Executive Director for Global Indices at INSEAD, Bruno Lanvin
It's well known that, to be effective in any undertaking, you first have to...
Riversoft Makes the Connection: From Travel Services to Medical Data Via NLP
Since its foundation, Riversoft has been active in many areas of growth, from tourism to technology and the marriage of both. Following our initial...
Designing a Corporate ESG Programme that Attracts, Nurtures, and Retains Women
By Chaitra Vedullapalli
Inclusion is the new kid on the block that every company interested in advancement is courting. And one of the best methods...
Taking Back Control?
By Alexei Garan
Supply chains for UK businesses are under extraordinary pressure thanks to the impact of COVID, the war in Ukraine, and geopolitical tensions...
Can You Teach Leadership?
By Adrian Furnham
Can you turn a brilliant technical person (accountant, engineer, lawyer) into a manager and a competent, even inspirational, leader of that function?...
Winning in the Complex World of Geopolitics
By Elizabeth Stephens and J. Mark Munoz
New rules of the game
The COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have accelerated the drivers of...
The Biases That Derail Open Innovation Initiatives
By Oguz A. Acar
Everyone loves an innovative idea, until they do not. According to Oguz Acar, “Idea novelty promotes acceptance up to a point;...
Re-creating the Trust of a Village in a Digital, Global Market: Insights From Trulioo...
By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor, The European Business Review.
As economic growth rates decline, many companies find opportunities by expanding to new markets and...
7 Tips to Master Email Deliverability and Boost Email ROI
Email marketing has the greatest ROI potential of any marketing channel out there, at $36 for every dollar spent. As a marketer, you grasp...
What’s Next for TravelTech? Insights from Riversoft CEO, Alex Kuo
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented, and continues to present, enormous challenges across the spectrum of industry, not least for the travel and tourism sector....
Thought Leadership, Frameworks, Tools and Immersion: Interview with Dr Prem Shamdasani of NUS Business...
A tough future in which the only constant is change awaits those who aspire to leadership in the world of business. To prepare these...
Organising to Address Global Customers
By Noel Capon, Mark Heil, Gus Maikish
As globalisation increases, corporations around the world seek better ways to address their global customers. The geographic-area model...
Remote Working: Why Your Career may not Zoom Ahead as Much as You’d Like
By Rocio Bonet and Peter Cappelli
Much is being said these days about what the future of work will look like. The most important of...
The Pitfalls of Flaunting your Social Status
By Alixandra Barasch, Shalena Srna, and Deborah Small
Ditch the luxury logos if you want to be seen as a cooperative teamplayer.
In life, impressions matter....
Women in Transition – Countering Leadership Challenges with Learning
By Nora Ilona Grasselli
One of the unintended consequences of the COVID-19 crisis and the measures introduced to control the pandemic was women’s increased disengagement...
Managing Geopolitical Risk Under Uncertainty
By Ghaidaa Hetou and J. Mark Munoz
Geopolitical shifts born out of the US-China-Russia rivalry have manifested in supply chain interruptions, divestments, national security directed...
Training Future Leaders Through a Transformational Educational Experience
Interview with Dr Gary Stockport, Dean EMBA & Professor of Strategy
The world of business education is an intensely competitive one, and executives looking to...
Conversational AI is Asking for Ethical Oversight: How Can Humans Best Answer the Call?
By Laetitia Cailleteau and Patrick Connolly
As conversational artificial intelligence (AI) advances, it is able to sustain ever more human-like relationships with end users. This...
New Outlook, New Educational Curricula And Proactivity
By Dr Mario Raich, Dr Kristine Marin Kawamura, Dr Simon L. Dolan, Dr Paweł Rowiński and Mr Claudio Cisullo
PART II: Towards A Visionary Prescriptive Transformation...
Supply Chain Management in a Disruptive Environment
By Ki Ling Cheung
Global organisations must rethink supply chain management to cope with the aggravated supply chain challenges resulting from all sorts of disruptions,...
“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...
Thriving as an Ecosystem Partner
By Arnoud De Meyer and Peter J. Williamson
More and more companies are choosing to join an established or emerging business ecosystem as part of...
Crisis? What crisis? Why European Companies Should Double Down on AI Now
By Jacques Bughin, Francis Hintermann and Philippe Roussière
Whether it's a global pandemic, a major geopolitical conflict nearby, or now a rise in inflation that...
Why Circular Business Models are Superior in the 2030s
By Henrik Hvid Jensen
The “born-circular” are companies designed for circular economy business models and have brought circularity into all the steps of product...
The Many Colours of Wisdom: Creating Reflective Leaders
By Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
In these most turbulent of times when enlightened leadership is needed more than ever, relying simply on knowledge,...
How Middle Managers Can Make Your Company’s Innovating Engine Hum
By Ben M. Bensaou
To adapt in a competitive, changing world, every business needs to operate an innovating engine, which requires contributions by employees at...
Sustainable Investment: Marrying Greenness with the Traditional Values
Interview with Mr. Claudio Cisullo, Founder of CC Trust Group AG
Investors are more than ever on the lookout for companies that demonstrate commitment to...
Laugh and the World Complains to HR: Humour at Work
By Adrian Furnham
But it was just “workplace banter”! Another pale, stale, frail male attempts to defend himself against a range of accusations of “inappropriateness”...
The Bias Against Radical Innovation
By Oguz Acar
The problem with truly innovative ideas is that, far from being enthusiastically received by those entrusted with evaluating them, they are more...
Will TikTok Take Over Facebook to Dominate Social Media?
By Shweta Singh
I have a 10 year-old niece named Divya (not her real name) in rural northern India. Two years ago, I visited and...
Intentional Money: Strategies for Sustainable Finance
By Vanina Farber, María Helena Jaén and Patrick Reichert
The logic of sustainable finance is simple; tell me where you put your money, and I...
A Business Wealth Creation Roadmap
By Christopher H. Volk
We live in unprecedented times where emerging businesses seem to mint billionaires on a regular basis. One would have to look...
Understanding People: Applying Behavioural Science to Business
Interview with Dr. Tim Mullett, Associate Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School
In business, understanding your clients, partners, and, perhaps most importantly, your...
A Vision of the future: Building a Smart Nation in Brunei
Interview with Ms. Suzanna Suharju, CEO of imagine
Digitalisation is a cornerstone of the government of Brunei’s vision for the country’s future. And award-winning Bruneian...
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...
