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We Need a Greater Focus on the Benefits Women in Top Executive Roles Bring...
By Sucheta Nadkarni
Recruiting women to corporate boards and top executive roles helps businesses find the best people and reach key consumers. There’s a risk...
Embedded Values and Induced Spirituality in Management Education
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Overcoming the Triple Hurdle of Diversity Management
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While “Big data” has garnered a lot of attention over the last number of years, many managers struggle in deciding where to...
How Political Intelligence Sets Successful Leaders Apart
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Leadership Alert! There are times when the classic development of leaders no longer fully equips them or their organisations...
50+20 Management Education for the World: PART 2: Understanding the Core of the Vision
By Katrin Muff, Thomas Dyllick, Mark Drewell, John North, Paul Shrivastava & Jonas Haertle
This article continues from Part I (in the last issue of...
The Search for Innovation Leadership
By Jeff Gaspersz
What do we need to do to build the leaders that are equipped for the new innovation challenges?
In all the years I...
50+20 Management Education for the World: PART 1: Designing a Radically New Vision of...
By Katrin Muff, Thomas Dyllick, Mark Drewell, John North, Paul Shrivastava & Jonas Haertle
Extracts from chapter 5 of the forthcoming book “Management education for...
Needed: Executives (and Citizens) with a Global Mindset
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We are facing challenges of a global nature that require global citizenship, global responsibility, and global solutions. These cannot be achieved...
Strategic Planning & Execution in an Uncertain World
Setting business strategy used to be as simple as defining what the organization wanted to achieve and then laying out the steps to get...
Why Marketing Leadership Needs to be Agile and Customer-focused
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Why do we use Zoom and not Slack or Skype? Post photos with Instagram and not Kodak? And why do we watch Netflix...
The Executive Education Conundrum: Insights from Survey “Navigating Executive Education Preferences and Needs in...
This article marks the third installment in a series of five articles to be published in our survey report for our recent survey, “Navigating Executive...
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In the energy transition, there is always attention to affordability and technology. However, attention to an important third...
Future Forecasting Tools: The Delphi Method
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The Leading Edge of Edtech: Shaping Learning with AI
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Navigating Executive Education Preferences and Needs in Contemporary Leadership Part 2: Strategic Emphases for...
Presented by the editors of The European Business Review
Following our exploration of geographical preferences in executive education, we now delve into the strategic emphases...
“Navigating Executive Education Preferences and Needs in Contemporary Leadership” (Part I): Revealing the Executive...
By The Editors of The European Business Review
Welcome to the first installment of insights based on the results of our recent survey, "Navigating Executive...
Methods to Navigate Complexity: SWOT Analysis
By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor of The European Business Review
Forbes calls SWOT analysis the “Most Overlooked Business Tool”. Here, we guide you on...
Innovative Learning Paths Revolutionizing Executive Education: Insights from Survey “Navigating Executive Education Preferences and...
Presented by the editors of The European Business Review
This article marks the fourth installment in our series of five articles to be published in...
3 Things Educators and Edtech Suppliers Need to Talk About
By Sandra DeCastro
The advancements in technology are reshaping how we teach and learn, bringing new opportunities and challenges. To address such challenges, a concerted...
Hospitality Industry Need to Utilize Data to Become More Sustainable
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The hospitality industry is responsible for 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and according to the Global Hotel Decarbonization Report published...
The Consistency Trap: How to Make Better Decisions
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Repetitive strain: Consistency bias can blind decision-makers to key factors when making similar choices.
Practice makes...
How Organisations Can Create Meaningful Innovation and Lasting Social Change
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New ideas: collaborative leaders give their teams the freedom and tools to...
How Sustainability Reporting Levels the Playing Field
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Despite facing criticism, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) represents a significant step in holding companies accountable for their...
Disrupting Higher Education – ChatGPT and Generative AI
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The way we assess learning and credential talent is disrupted by ChatGPT. It is forcing higher education to strip down and...
Tech Events Dominating Europe: A Guide to Top Tech Summits for Business Leaders
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Introduction
There are a...
What Did 2023 Teach Us About Leadership? An Answer in the Form of Three...
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Future Forecasting Tools and Megatrends: Scenario Planning
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In the article series on how to strategize in an unpredictable future, we’ve reached scenario planning. This article explores...
Introducing New Article Series: Future Forecasting Tools and Megatrends
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AI hype, war and geopolitical chaos, climate change, and fragile supply chains. An overall...
Navigating the Business Horizon: 10 Essential Insights from The European Business Review
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“In this moment, we must all be learners – figuring out not how to simply make the best of it, but how to...
The Evolving Face of Executive Education Learning: Global Trends and Topics
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At a time when the business world is challenged by radical advances in technology, volatility, and disruption, it’s encouraging to see how...
Culture Is Still ‘‘a Thing’’: On Why It’s So, but Shouldn’t Be
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The time has come to see culture in business settings in a new light – not as a ‘‘collective programming of the...
A Beauty Premium and a Plainness Penalty: Attractiveness at Work
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COVID as an Economic Opportunity: Lessons From the Subprime Crisis on Resilient Businesses
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Designing For Impact: A Results-driven Perspective For Executive Education
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Jane is a manager at a large telecom company. Three months ago, she was...
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