Why Fixing the Planet is also about Seizing Business Opportunities
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sybille Berjoan, Dr Jacques Bughin and Yuhui Xiong
Companies’ efforts to become more sustainable can often be driven by regulation or government...
Digital Upskilling, Gender Equality, and Leadership in Tech-Driven Organizations
By David De Cremer
Renowned leadership expert John C. Maxwell (2007) is often quoted saying “Everything rises and falls on leadership.” This quote underscores the...
Improving the Emotional Mix of Buying Luxury
By Francine Espinoza Petersen and Mariana Soberano
Buying luxury impacts not only consumers’ wallet, but also their hearts. In this article, we provide a deeper...
Top Executive Education featuring Antwerp Management School: Opening Minds to Impact the World
Interview with Antwerp Management School's Prof. Dr. Goran Milenković, Academic Director of the EMBA and Prof. Dr. Steffi Weil, Associate Dean for International Outreach...
Sounding the Alarm: Early Warning Systems to Build Nature-Positive and Climate Resilient Businesses
By Sanjay Podder, Shalabh Kumar Singh, H. James Wilson, and Giju Mathew
Last summer’s heatwave in the UK and other European countries put a significant...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Make Hiring a Delightful Employee Experience
How to upgrade your employer brand to attract and retain the best talent
By Avi Liran
As the war for talent intensifies, creating a Delightful Employee...
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,...
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....
Innovation – now and for generations to come
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...
Managing People’s Talent with Artificial Intelligence
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...
A Compass for Chief Executive Officers and Chief Learning Officers
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,...
Charisma and brand relevance: How to achieve a strong corporate identity
By Luigi Gentili
This article examines the nature of charismatic brands and how this characteristic gives them a competitive advantage. Charismatic brands redefine the status...
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...
“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...
Future, Delayed: The #1 Reason Digital Transformation Could Stall During a Recession (And How...
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...
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...
Driving Success Through Collaboration and Partnership
“The programme teaches you not just theoretical concepts and business models, but also how to benchmark yourself against others and apply your personal learning...
Understanding flexible working legislation: what are your legal obligations?
By Dee Coakley
Is flexible working a right or a privilege? As we emerge from a two-year period in which conventional working practices have gone...
Lifelong Learning with ESSEC Business School
The demand for new approaches to learning has been on a steady rise after the tumultuous past few years. The global landscape has changed...
How Fintech is Helping the Private Aviation Industry Thrive in a Changing Payment Landscape
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...
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...
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...
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...
Inside the Journey of a Decacorn
By Jacques Bughin
Start-ups – and their unicorn, and now decacorn, darlings – are critical both for value creation as well as for economic growth...
Interviewing Elites and Guanxi in China
By Dr Hongqin Li, William S. Harvey and Jonathan V. Beaverstock
With China’s growing influence, Chinese leadership is attracting more limelight from around the world....
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...
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...
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,...
VidaXL: Pioneer and eCommerce Business Giant
It all started with two selling items on eBay. Sixteen years later, the business has transformed into the global retailing giant, vidaXL. The eCommerce...
