Editors' Pick

This category is Editors’ Pick, featuring a curated selection of insightful articles, expert analyses, and thought-provoking content. It highlights the most impactful stories, trends, and ideas shaping the future of business, leadership, and innovation.

Why Value Value?

By Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs and Bill Huyett Most executives have figured out how to create value for shareholders through experience, observation, and intuition. They’ve...
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From Cradle to Manager: Children’s Books as a Pathway to Build Emotional Intelligence and...

By Jason Woldt and Mary Sue Woldt What makes a great leader? Can children be trained for leadership right from the cradle? In this article,...
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Navigating the Future of Online Advertising with WEB3

By Frank Cespedes and Ben Plomion For years, digital ad spend was a steadily growing portion of marketing budgets, reaching over $601 billion globally in...

The Great Resignation

By Adrian Furnham Many believe that the young generation is not interested in working, with some calling them the Lazy Generation. The concept of the...
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Rethinking Productivity: The Case for a Four-Day Work Week

By Andrew Barnes Entrepreneur Andrew Barnes, founder of 4 Day Week Global, discusses the transformative potential of a four-day work week and contends that focusing...
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How Global Companies Are Implementing Supplier Diversity Policies

By Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca and Gemma Berenguer It has become increasingly common for companies to implement supply-chain diversity to maintain a good image...
Tech Leadership for Women

Empathy and Empowerment: Transforming Tech Leadership for Women

Interview with Stacy Bohrer of OpenX  Discover how empathy, mentorship, and creating supportive environments can drive success, foster innovation, and inspire the next generation of...

There Will Be No Human-Centered AI without Humane Economics.

By Hamilton Mann Digital technologies, while enhancing efficiencies, can exacerbate environmental degradation. AI, despite its potential to support sustainable development, is not exempt from these...
Michael McCreesh’s Mission to Showcase Taiwan’s Outdoors

Adventure Awaits: Michael McCreesh’s Mission to Showcase Taiwan’s Outdoors

In this exclusive interview, we talk with Michael McCreesh, the dynamic Founder and CEO of Taiwan Outdoors. Michael reveals his passion for Taiwan’s diverse...
pPeter Weill on How Top-Performing Firms Needed to Reorganise Seven Times for Digital

How Top-Performing Firms Needed to Reorganise Seven Times for Digital

By Peter Weill & Stephanie L. Woerner Top-performing firms reorganise several times to effectively use digital to capture value. In a series of CEO interviews,...
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Platform Thinking: What Established Firms Can Learn From Big Tech and Digital Start-Ups

By Daniel Trabucchi & Tommaso Buganza The platform revolution has already taken place, but we link the idea of platforms with Big Tech like Amazon...
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Part B: Designing Organisational Ecosystems and Overcoming Barriers to Implementation

By Jonathan Trevor and Kazuhiro Asakawa In the second of a two-part series on aligning organisational ecosystems to be fit for purpose and high-performing, this...

Lucky By Design 5 Clever Attitudes to Tilt Odds in Your Favour

By Avi Liran While you wait for your ship to come in, have you given any thought to building a lighthouse, or even dredging the...
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Unlocking the Power of AI Leadership: A Dialogue with Professor David De Cremer

David De Cremer gets to the heart of leadership in the era of rapid AI evolution. Discussing his upcoming book on the topic, he...
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How to Put Curiosity to Work in Your Organisation

By Louise Muhdi Companies are starting to understand why it is important to cultivate curiosity among their workforce. Yet, only a few possess a good...
Resilient Organisation

How to Build a Resilient Organisation

Attributed to Loizos Heracleous, Professor of Strategy at Warwick Business School As macro factors such as economic trends, public health, war, technology development and...
Aligning Organisational Ecosystems to be Fit for Purpose

Aligning Organisational Ecosystems to be Fit for Purpose

By Jonathan Trevor and Kazuhiro Asakawa In the first of a two-part series, we explore how firms are reaping the benefits of leveraging a network...
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Trust-Me: A Concept and Metric to Embed in Leaders, Enhancing their Effectiveness

By Simon L. Dolan, Kyle Brykman and Shay S. Tzafrir Every leader needs to inspire trust in their followers, employees, and stakeholders. Trust is one...
Business Leadership Paradigm

A New Business Leadership Paradigm to Understand Signals and Timing: When to ENTER a...

By Peter Lorange and Karin Mugnaini In business, as in a host of other contexts, timing is everything. While sensing the optimum moment for a...
Game

Mastering the Game: Lessons in Leadership from Rugby to the Boardroom

By Darren Cassidy Mastering the Game: Lessons in Leadership from Rugby to the Boardroom explores the parallels between high-performance rugby and successful business leadership. Drawing...
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Pivot or Perish: Modern Enterprise Networks Will Drive the Digital Future in Europe

By Jefferson Wang, Michele Marrone, and Swati Vyas As Europe sets out to deliver on its second digital agenda, companies will need to equip themselves...
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Hacking Trustworthy AI

By Jacques Bughin In the aftermath of the initial AI tidal wave that has rolled across business and industry, there are signs that the emphasis...
Navigating the Business Horizon

Navigating the Business Horizon: 10 Essential Insights from The European Business Review

By Pamela Martinez “In this moment, we must all be learners – figuring out not how to simply make the best of it, but how to...
Algorithmic Governance

Enterprises Must Establish Algorithmic Governance in Advance of Regulatory Mandates

By Mark Esposito, Aurélie Jean, Terence Tse and Guillaume Sibout In AI, as in myriad other fields, past and present, technological developments go blazing ahead...
Artificial Intelligence and Negotiations

Artificial Intelligence and Negotiations: Should You Go All in?

By Daniel Freeman AI is becoming smarter and being utilised in our daily lives, whether we realise it or not. You may be wondering at...
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Why Strong Technology Leadership Matters to Europe’s Future Competitiveness

The Right Leadership Can Help Bridge Europe's Lag in Technology Adoption, R&D, and Patents By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Svenja Falk, and Surya Mukherjee Increasing leaders’ technology quotient...
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Building Brand Engagement: Lessons from NFTs and Collectibles

By Frank Cespedes and Ben Plomion The hype about NFTs might be over, but when carefully deployed, they remain a viable tool for brand engagement,...
Pioneering Biotech Investment

Pioneering Biotech Investment with Patient-Centric Vision

Interview with Dr. Simeon George from SR One Capital Management The biotech industry, a realm of constant innovation and transformation, is driven by brilliant minds...
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Going Faster Is Not Enough Add Innovation to Outperform

By Peter Weill, Jan Brecht and Stephanie L. Woerner To stay relevant and achieve resilience, company leaders need to focus not only on speed but...
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The Art of Future Design — Part II: Deployment, Wholeness, and Impact on...

By Kristine M. Kawamura, Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo In this article, we extend the logic that was previously published...
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Now It is Time for AI Transformation

By Jacques Bughin and Ivan Gjepali Unsurprisingly, the focus in the application of AI in business and industry to date has been on the potential...

Digital Strategies for Proactive Supplier Risk Management

By Kamil J. Mizgier By learning to proactively manage supplier risks through digital strategies, companies can mitigate the adverse effects of disruptions, enhance supply chain...
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Banking on Data: the World’s First-Ever Common Currency

By Hamilton Mann There is no shortage of descriptors when it comes to unveiling the considerable importance of data in our societies. While some refer...

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...
Risk Governance

A Framework For Risk Governance

By Pedro B. Agua When it comes to approaching risks, we find that compliance is a necessary condition, but, not a sufficient one. Risk has...
GAI

Will Generative AI Disrupt your Company and your Need for Workers?

By Stephan Kudyba As Stephan Kudyba explains, generative AI affects companies in different ways….it all depends on the data that they rely on. As the rollout...

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...
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How to Thrive in Radical Uncertainty

By Nando Malmelin and Sofi Kurki The term “VUCA” is familiar to most of us as a convenient label to characterise our constantly changing world....
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Heavy (Carbon) Footprints: can Subscription Shoes Create a Sustainable Footwear Industry?

By Patrick Reichert and Oscar Vosshage Sneakers (or “trainers”, as they are known in the UK) are big business – and leave a heavy environmental...

Why Many Modern Psychology Test Publishers Fail

By Adrian Furnham In the midst of the razzmatazz surrounding AI, we hear a lot about its potential for the recruitment process. But is it...
Maintaining Compliance and Security

Maintaining Compliance and Security: How Password Managers Protect Data under GDPR

By Gary Orenstein As a leading global password manager, Bitwarden enables customers all over the world to protect, store, and share their sensitive data. Protecting...
Cyber Threats

How European Companies Are Protecting Themselves From Cyber Threats

By Michael Crandell The Modern European Threat Landscape In the fall of 2022, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) released its annual report covering the...
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is Exclusive-by-Design

By Hamilton Mann As humans, it is our responsibility to shape the trajectory of artificial intelligence and use the knowledge of machine learning to...
Co-Create

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...
Bruno Lanvin

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...
Teaching Leadership

Can You Teach Leadership?

By Adrian Furnham Can leadership be taught or is it an innate talent? This age-old question has been the topic of many debates in the...
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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...
Leaders’ Behaviours and Organisational Cultures

Leaders’ Behaviours and Organisational Cultures Needed for Success in a Post Covid Hybrid Workplace

By Vlatka Ariaana Hlupic The global pandemic has changed all aspects of our lives including the way that we are now working. As organisations are...
Claudio Cisullo

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...

Navigating the A.I. Era: How Riversoft from Taiwan Harnesses the Power of Generative A.I.

Exclusive Interview with Claude Shen, Chief Technology Officer of Riversoft Inc. In a world where Generative A.I. has become ubiquitous, Riversoft's CTO, Claude Shen, discusses...