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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...
Strategic Leadership

Strategic Leadership for Growth in Turbulent Times

By Peter Lorange In uncertain times, strategic leadership is crucial for navigating growth. Dr Peter Lorange, Honorary President of IMD, explores how executives can harness...
Daversa

Refining the Search for Executive Talent in Europe

Interview with Daversa Partners’ Wendy Colvano - Director & Head of Europe With investors looking towards Europe as a hotspot for business acceleration, the need...
Cyber Exposure in Europe’s Global Supply Chains

Digital Sovereignty at Risk: Managing Cyber Exposure in Europe’s Global Supply Chains

By Annika Nevaste Cyber attackers increasingly exploit supply chains as the weak underbelly of European business. Securing supply chain resilience is now critical. Mercurial world leaders,...
La Defense, Paris

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...

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,...
Leadership skills for 2026

The Skills Leaders Will Actually Need in 2026

By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor Everything is moving fast these days. Leadership is no exception. Here are five essential skills leaders need in 2026.  Meaningful...
European Automakers

Shifting Gears: How European Automakers Can Survive the EV Disruption

By Juergen Reers, Marcello Tamietti, Philipp Kupferschmidt, Stefan Hattula, and Sheryl Yaping Yu European automakers face growing competition from Chinese and U.S. electric vehicle (EV)...
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How to Better Understand Your Market to Drive Business Growth

By Francis Rodino  If you don’t truly understand your market, you’re shooting in the dark. Successful businesses thrive on market intelligence—knowing exactly who their customers...
Digital Transformation Could Stall During a Recession

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...

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...
Gonca Baybas

Sabanci University: Delivering World-Class Executive Education through EDU

Interview with Gonca Borerkci Baybas of Sabancı University Executive Education Unit (EDU) Since its launch in 2002, the Sabancı University Executive Education Unit (EDU) has progressively...
Mind the Trust Gap. Partner in business shaking hands

Mind the Trust Gap: How Trading Partners Can Stay Closely Aligned

By Kate Vitasek Team members use much different language when describing “good” versus “typical” trading partner relationships. Through assessments, companies can measure and address relationship...
artificial intelligence

Intelligent Artificiality: Why ‘AI’ Does Not Live Up To Its Hype – and How...

By Mihnea Moldoveanu Organisations need to urgently take action to address the communication and skills gap between their corporate leaders, key decision makers and AI...
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Becoming the Leader You Are: The 6S-Model of Leadership Development

By Vivek Sharma and David De Cremer Real leadership? It starts when you stop following everyone else’s playbook. The 6S-Model reveals why authentic leaders are forged...
Curiosity concept

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...

Cross-border and Cross-cultural: the KEDGE Global Executive MBA Programme has a Worldwide Reach

Interview with Professor Hervé Remaud, Director KEDGE Global Executive MBA KEDGE Business School Time will tell whether history will record the Zeitgeist of our times...
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How Operational Research is the Hidden Gem of Business Decision-Making 

By Bob Scott  In today's data-driven world, where the buzz around AI and analytics dominates boardroom discussions, there is a forgotten hero quietly transforming business...

Science for a Better Tomorrow

By Ulrich A.K. Betz The future holds daunting challenges for the human race, and some good news wouldn’t come amiss. Here, Ulrich Betz gives us...
Human Uniqueness At The Dawn Of Intelligent Machines

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...

Following the Twin Paths to Knowledge – Interview with Chen Fangruo of Shanghai Jiao...

We sometimes hear theory and practice spoken of as two separate aspects of business education, connected but distinct. Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Antai College...
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...
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Leadership Development with AI: IMD’s Updated Future-Oriented MBA Curriculum

Interview with Omar Toulan of IMD The International Institute for Management Development (IMD) is in first place in Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2024 ranking of European MBA...
supply systems

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...
Kevin Wang

Close Encounters of the 3D Kind: Interview with Kevin Wang of Elegoo

Once firmly in the province of specialists, 3D printing is now being brought closer to the rest of us, due to the pioneering efforts...
Siobhan Frank, Oxford Executive MBA

Oxford Executive MBA: Shaping Global Business Leaders through Learning and Research

Interview with Siobhan Frank, Oxford Executive MBA In this TEBR interview, Siobhan Frank, Programme Director of the Oxford Executive MBA, highlights the school’s excellence through its world-class...
Goodbye Industries, Hello Domains: Top-Performing Companies Focus on Customer Outcomes

Goodbye Industries, Hello Domains: Top-Performing Companies Focus on Customer Outcomes

By Peter Weill and Stephanie L. Woerner A domain-oriented company helps serve a customer’s end-to-end need by focusing on customer outcomes rather than only on...
AI supply chain

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Supply Chain Planning: The Future is Here & Now

By Mark Balte According to a recent International Data Corporation (IDC) Digital Economy Model, by 2023 over 50% of all worldwide nominal gross domestic product...

Select out: Why selection often goes wrong and what to do about it

By Adrian Furnham The process of selecting people, in business as in social relationships, tends to focus on the “good” characteristics we are looking for....

Don’t Fear the Black Swan, Take it as an Opportunity to Soar

By Kevin Peters, President and CEO, NetNumber When a black swan event, an unexpected occurrence that has a substantial impact on society and business, happens, businesses...
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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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Beyond Collaborative Intelligence we can see a Meta-Mind Society Surfacing and we can Dream...

Facts, Fads and predictions about the joint venture of Human Mind and AI algorithms By Mario Raich, Simon  L. Dolan, Claudio Cisullo and Bonnie A....
Climate action

Climate Action is in the Hands of the C-Suite

By Renaud Bettin As companies face rising pressures from consumers, investors, and sustainability reporting regulations, it is essential that the entire C-Suite assumes responsibility for...

Will The Robots Save Company Culture?

By Simone Sneed-McGurl Over the past 25 years we have seen a rapid proliferation of workplace technology, automation and artificial intelligence. The evolution of 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,...
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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...
learning from failure

Making Failure Work

By Ricardo Viana Vargas, Edivandro Carlos Conforto, and Tahirou Assane Oumarou For all organisations and managers failure is a recurring reality. But despite failure being...
AI

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...

From Mandates to Mastery: Navigating the Global E-Invoicing Shift as a Strategic Advantage

By Bartłomiej Wójtowicz, Director of Consulting at Comarch e-Invoicing Flip the script on e-invoicing. Comarch experts show you how to turn a burdensome tax obligation...
How European Companies Can Become Growth Leaders

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...
innovation strategy

Innovation (not) at the Core

By Claudio Cisullo A common mistake in industries faced by severe performance pressure is to turn to well-known innovation tools and strategies. Especially in sectors where...
customer success in 2024

How Can Businesses Ready Themselves for Customer Success in 2024?

By Sonali Fenner 2023’s corporate landscape has been dominated by the AI transition, geopolitical conflict, and supply chain issues - all heavily impacting business operations....
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...
Gerry Zack

The Cycle of ESG and Compliance

By Gerry Zack, CEO of Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics® (SCCE) & Health Care Compliance Association® (HCCA) Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues have...
AI integrity - Hamilton Mann

Can Machines Demonstrate Integrity? Crash-Testing Artificial Integrity, Not Intelligence.

By Hamilton Mann Large language models are already being consulted in decisions that touch patient safety, regulatory compliance, and public trust, yet their behavior under...
ESMT Berlin

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...
Ole Lola

Getting the AI edge: An exclusive interview with MobiDev CEO Oleg Lola

How can businesses leverage artificial intelligence effectively? Oleg Lola, CEO of MobiDev, outlines his company’s approach to harnessing the power of AI in the...

ChangeNOW: Where Sustainability Solutions are Found – and Accelerated

Interview with Santiago Lefebvre, Founder and CEO of ChangeNOW If change for sustainability is to be made a reality, there needs to be a place...

Agile Anarchy is the Name of the Future

By Guido Stein and Alberto Barrachina To build agile organizations you must understand human relationships   1. Change> Transform Your Approach to Transformation This technical note explores some...

A Wake-up Call for the Corporate World

By Christoph Burger, Antony Froggatt, Catherine Mitchell, and Jens Weinmann New regulations and opportunities in the decentralized energy market can be good for the planet...