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This category is Industry Insights, offering expert analysis on market trends, business strategies, and sector-specific developments. It features in-depth perspectives on innovation, challenges, and opportunities shaping industries in an ever-evolving global economy.

New Models and the Changing Contexts of Business School

By Peter Lorange, Jagdish N. Sheth and Howard Thomas The traditional models of many business schools are being questioned given their serious...
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Introducing New Article Series: Future Forecasting Tools and Megatrends

By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor of The European Business Review AI hype, war and geopolitical chaos, climate change, and fragile supply chains. An overall...
UK–India School Partnerships

Developing Future Business Leaders: The Impact of UK–India School Partnerships

By Professor Liz Warren UK-India school partnerships play a vital role in preparing the next generation of global business leaders. By providing cross-cultural learning experiences,...
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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...

Culture Is Still ‘‘a Thing’’: On Why It’s So, but Shouldn’t Be

By Ernst Graamans The time has come to see culture in business settings in a new light – not as a ‘‘collective programming of the...
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The Evolving Face of Executive Education Learning: Global Trends and Topics

By Pamela Martinez At a time when the business world is challenged by radical advances in technology, volatility, and disruption, it’s encouraging to see how...
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Why Threats to Academic Freedom are Growing – And How Universities Can Respond to...

By Dr Kirsten Roberts Lyer Recent accusations that China pressured a UK university into pausing research on alleged human rights violations have raised questions about...

The EU Now Regulates Internet Services. But What Does that Mean, Exactly?

By Martin Schallbruch Internet access has become crucial to the functioning of our most important systems. The Directive on security of network and information systems...
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“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...
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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...
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We Stopped Teaching Like its 1985. Here’s What Happened.

By Nitish Jain SP Jain School of Global Management transformed its approach to business education by integrating AI into the learning process. Nitish Jain outlines...
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The Consistency Trap: How to Make Better Decisions

By Dr. Tim Mullett, Reader, Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School Repetitive strain: Consistency bias can blind decision-makers to key factors when making similar choices. Practice makes...

How Political Intelligence Sets Successful Leaders Apart

By Gerry Reffo and Valerie Wark Leadership Alert! There are times when the classic development of leaders no longer fully equips them or their organisations...
Top Tech Summits for Business Leaders

Tech Events Dominating Europe: A Guide to Top Tech Summits for Business Leaders

From Generative AI to cloud security and everything in between, the range of tech events taking place each year can be overwhelming. Introduction There are a...
Day-One Rights vs Six-Month Threshold: Employment Bill

Day-One Rights vs Six-Month Threshold: Where the Employment Rights Bill May Land

By Alex Hodson During the most recent general election, the Labour Party pledged to abolish the two-year qualifying period required for employees to bring an...
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Hospitality Industry Need to Utilize Data to Become More Sustainable 

By Dr. Carlos Martin-Rios The hospitality industry is responsible for 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and according to the Global Hotel Decarbonization Report published...

Overcoming the Triple Hurdle of Diversity Management

By Winfried Ruigrok Diversity management is a key instrument to position your company as a preferred employer. Fail to recite this mantra and you risk...

Needed: Executives (and Citizens) with a Global Mindset

By Nakiye A. Boyacigiller We are facing challenges of a global nature that require global citizenship, global responsibility, and global solutions. These cannot be achieved...

Developing Values in Business Education

By Nigel Duncan This article considers how we might best prepare students for ethical business practice. It considers recent developments in evolutionary research and neuroscience...
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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...
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How Organisations Can Create Meaningful Innovation and Lasting Social Change 

By Irene Bengo   In the last decades, we have witnessed a profound change in the way of doing business because companies have been increasingly asked...

Where do you Begin with your (Big) Data Initiative?

By Joe Peppard While “Big data” has garnered a lot of attention over the last number of years, many managers struggle in deciding where to...

How Sustainability Reporting Levels the Playing Field 

By Ries Breijer and Michael Erkens Despite facing criticism, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) represents a significant step in holding companies accountable for their...
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...
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Disrupting Higher Education – ChatGPT and Generative AI

By Nancy W. Gleason The way we assess learning and credential talent is disrupted by ChatGPT. It is forcing higher education to strip down and...
Why Marketing Leadership Needs to be Agile and Customer-focused

Why Marketing Leadership Needs to be Agile and Customer-focused

By Mairead Brady Why do we use Zoom and not Slack or Skype? Post photos with Instagram and not Kodak? And why do we watch Netflix...

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...

After After-Sales: New Business Models Tempt, Fail Industry

By Olaf Plötner The after-sales-based business models of industrial enterprises are endangered. Simultaneously, modern data-based technologies enable the development of complex service solutions – so...

5 Myths about Employee Learning

Here are some common misperceptions about corporate education— and how to get beyond them. Under what circumstances do organizations embrace a learning culture? Often, it’s when...

Knowledge Architects Wanted

By Tammi L. Coles Organisations that embrace cross-domain knowledge can attain sustainable agility. In this article, the author highlights the significant yet often overlooked difference...
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A Beauty Premium and a Plainness Penalty: Attractiveness at Work

By Adrian Furnham Are physically attractive people seriously advantaged at work? Are they more likely to be selected, promoted, and given higher salaries? Does being physically...
AI into Marketing Strategies

Why Your Business Needs to Implement AI into Marketing Strategies

By Marc Mazodier With AI, developing more targeted and sustainable marketing strategies is no longer an impossible task. Here are ways AI can revolutionize your...
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“Does Everyone Hear Me OK?”: How to Lead Virtual Teams Effectively

By Sergey Gorbatov In today’s world, virtual teams are no longer the exception – they’re the norm. Whether your team is fully remote or operating...
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Future Forecasting Tools: The Delphi Method

By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor Developed during the Cold War for military applications, the Delphi Method is a popular forecasting tool across various sectors,...

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...
Shaping Learning with AI

The Leading Edge of Edtech: Shaping Learning with AI

Interview with Beatriz Arnillas, VP of Product Management at 1EdTech Beatriz Arnillas, VP of Product Management at 1EdTech, a nonprofit consortium for educational institutions and edtech suppliers, discusses her journey from...

Managing Customer Satisfaction Better

By Johannes Habel Many companies draw the wrong conclusions from their customer surveys. There is a simple method that can provide a remedy, leading to...
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How Do 200-Year-Old Institutions Innovate? The Example of Business Schools

By Fernanda Arreola and Dr. Gregory C. Unruh When we think of innovation, our minds often jump to startups or young tech firms. But what...
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The Creativity Quotient: Can Business Schools Really Teach What AI Will Never Learn?

By George Sammour A new pedagogical methodology is emerging in business education, forcing a fundamental question: Can you teach someone how to be creative, and...
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Fail Faster, Learn Smarter: Why Mastering Failure is the Key to Thriving in the...

By Matthew Egan In today’s AI-driven economy, mastering failure is becoming as critical as mastering success. Matthew Egan highlights how embracing setbacks accelerates learning and...
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Future Forecasting Tools and Megatrends: Scenario Planning

By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor In the article series on how to strategize in an unpredictable future, we’ve reached scenario planning. This article explores...
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How Can Leaders Stay in the Know?

By Dr. Maja Korica, Warwick Business School (WBS) As a senior leader, do you know what’s really going on in your organisation? Are you on...
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Putting Wellbeing at the Heart of Leadership – Expert Insights for World Mental Health...

As mental ill health becomes the leading cause of workplace absence, leadership must redefine its priorities. For World Mental Health Day, experts share practical...

The Missing Puzzle Piece? How Action Learning Can Help Solve the Dual Challenge of...

By Alex Makarevich, Christian Acosta-Flamma and Simon L. Dolan To win in the “war for talent”, companies can no longer rely on conventional recruitment methods...

Leading Change: How SDA Bocconi Transforms the MBAs Experience

Bridging tradition and innovation to redefine leadership evolution What does it mean to prepare leaders in a world where change is constant and increasingly complex?...

Embedded Values and Induced Spirituality in Management Education

The Case of Two Successful Business Schools in Barcelona By S. L. Dolan, Y. Altman, B. Capell and M. Raich
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Unconventional Alternative Media TreAs the U.S. Elections Unfold

New Report Exposes the Impact of Alternative Media Across the Western Worldnds Voices in Europe and the US With Americans heading to the polls today,...

What’s the No. 1 MBA? Why Business Deans Invest in Rankings, Knowing They Miss...

By Catherine Heggerud When Harvard Business School tumbled to sixth place in the U.S. News MBA rankings in 2020, the reaction was swift. Critics questioned the methodology,...

The Hedgehog Effect: Building High Performance Teams

By Manfred Kets de Vries You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself. — Galileo Galilee The organizations we...
Championing Triple Ownership Programs

Championing Triple Ownership Programs (TOPs) in Executive Education: How Participant and Sponsor Ownership Leads...

By Christoph Burger, Bianca Schmitz and Bethan Williams What do you associate with the word “campus”?  For most of us, besides the happy student memories, there...

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