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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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What’s Next for TravelTech? Insights from Riversoft CEO, Alex Kuo

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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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New Outlook, New Educational Curricula And Proactivity

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Supply Chain Management in a Disruptive Environment

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Crisis? What crisis? Why European Companies Should Double Down on AI Now

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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...
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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...
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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”...
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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...

Towards A Visionary Prescriptive Transformation of Education: Part I: New Paradigms, New Reality, and...

By Mario Raich, Kristine M. Kawamura, Simon L. Dolan, Paweł M. Rowiński and Claudio Cisullo This paper is Part I of two articles to be published...
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Fixing the Progression Paradox: One Way to Accelerate Social Mobility

By Simon Eaves, Camilla Drejer and Dominic King Socio-economic background continues to weigh on career progression in the UK. Despite this, a new Accenture study...

The Metaverse and Web 3.0: Embedding Ourselves into the Internet

By Ray Schroeder We are embarking on an online environment transformation that is every bit as revolutionary as the inception of the Web browser in...
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Make Hiring a Delightful Employee Experience

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What The War In Ukraine Means For Business

By Paul Bracken The war in Ukraine has far reaching implications for business. Companies will face more complicated political and social issues than the stark,...
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Triple A.I. Supply Chains

By Fabrice Thomas and Hervé Legenvre Hau L. Lee, a Stanford professor described high performing supply chains back in 2004 as Agile, Adaptative and Aligned....

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By Ulrich A.K. Betz Merck is well known as a vibrant science and technology company. But the company's drive to improve the well-being of humanity...

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Artificial Intelligence leadership goes beyond technology By Prof. Guido Stein, IESE Business School and Alberto Barrachina, Research Assistant For companies, the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the...

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By Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas Based on a 5 year study of the executive development industry, comprising interviews with over 200 executives, CLO’s, CEO’s,...
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The Imperative of the Vigilant Corporation

By Jacques Bughin After COVID-19, now comes the appalling Ukrainian-Russian war, and the threat of stagflation. But if turbulent times rule –doesn't it pay to...
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“I Don’t Want Us to Lose the Momentum We Have”: A Talk with Julie...

By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor of The European Business Review Recently we had the privilege to sit down with Julie Teigland, EY’s Managing Partner...
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By Andre Schindler, General manager of EMEA for NinjaOne The past two-and-a-half years have ushered in an accelerated era of digital transformation, but now economic...
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Entrepreneurs Are the Solution to the European Energy Crisis. It’s Time For Startups...

By Karolina Attspodina Here’s Why Entrepreneurs Will Be More Successful Than Governments In Fighting The Energy Crisis The European energy markets are in permanent crisis mode. At...

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By Simona Moosar The private aviation industry is currently undergoing a massive image change. Although aircraft operators and brokers haven’t actively rebranded their services, COVID-19...
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Five Lessons of Cybersecurity the Public Sector Can Offer

By Dr. Öykü Işık, Dr. Tawfik Jelassi and Valérie Keller-Birrer The public sector’s many years of experience fighting for cybersecurity offers unique insights for businesses...
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Strategies for Sudden Shock- Market Rewards Good Performance Also During Tough Times

By Olli-Pekka Lumijärvi, Olga Nissen and Alexandra Oborina Every company’s strategy aims to grow revenue, profit, and market capitalization. When global economy was accelerating, these...
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The Future of the Data Economy: Four Building Blocks to Maximize Value From Data...

By Svenja Falk, Surya Mukherjee and Laura Wright Data has massive potential to create both social and business value. Yet, most companies are yet to...
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By Jacques Bughin Start-ups – and their unicorn, and now decacorn, darlings – are critical both for value creation as well as for economic growth...
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Duplicitous Leadership: Why Inconsistency is Harmful

By Nishat Babu When talking about leadership, we tend to focus on positive forms such as transformational, servant, and ethical, and their encouraging effects on...
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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...
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Leadership Insights: Your Organization Is More Than The Sum of Its Parts

By Richard S. Hawkes It’s common for leaders and change-management experts to talk about organizations as if they were machines or computers. Machines have parts,...
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VidaXL: Pioneer and eCommerce Business Giant

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By Luke Treglown AI is transforming how we work and interact, not just through efficiency but by mimicking human qualities like personality and empathy. As we debate whether AI can truly possess humanity, its growing...

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