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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 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...
From Products to Solutions – Mastering Sales Force Incentives
By Johannes Habel and Olaf Ploetner
As B2B companies strive to become providers of solutions rather than products, sales managers face significant challenges. Among them:...
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...
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...
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...
How to Lead if You Inherit a Bad Situation
By Michael Watkins
As businesses navigate market disruptions, technological innovations and an increasingly turbulent world, leaders will frequently find themselves taking control of a team...
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?...
The Rise of the Executive Learner: No Growth. No Edge. No Excuse.
By Bart Tkaczyk
Amid today’s complexity, continuous learning is leadership’s core discipline. This article reframes executive development as enterprise-critical, introducing the “executive learner” archetype—leaders who...
Beyond Good Intentions – Bringing Strategy To Giving, Impact Investing, and Corporate Responsibility
By Olga Almqvist
Value-driven leaders and people with means have an array of options for giving back to society. But whether through philanthropy, impact-driven investments,...
Attention to the Third Success Factor is Always Necessary
By Prof. dr. ir. Anke van Hal
In the energy transition, there is always attention to affordability and technology. However, attention to an important third...
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...
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
The Seven Key Competencies for Collaborative Leadership
By Dr. Dimitrios Spyridonidis, Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Warwick Business School
New ideas: collaborative leaders give their teams the freedom and tools to...
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 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...
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...
How B2B Marketers Can Stay Customer-Centric
By Mairead Brady, Warwick Business School (WBS)
WBS Core Insights: Future of Work
To adjust to the new post-pandemic normal it is vital that businesses move...
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...
Onboarding Immigrant Employees Amid Growing Far-Right Support
By Dr. Max Reinwald
In the global context of mass migration and aging workforces, immigrant newcomers play a vital role in the labour markets of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
COVID as an Economic Opportunity: Lessons From the Subprime Crisis on Resilient Businesses
By Jorge Sá
Most businesses were taken completely off-guard when the COVID crisis hit. The absence of historical data on such an event meant that...
The Role of EdTech in Executive Education: Insights from Survey “Navigating Executive Education Preferences...
Presented by the editors of The European Business Review
This article marks the final installment in our series of five articles to be published in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
What Did 2023 Teach Us About Leadership? An Answer in the Form of Three...
By Martin Gutmann
After his takeover of Twitter in October of 2022, Elon Musk admonished his staff to be “extremely hardcore.” Many heeded the call,...
It is Time to Take an Honest Look at Higher Education in the Age...
By Mariah Levin
Higher education is facing unprecedented disruption as artificial intelligence reshapes the global workforce. Mariah Levin examines how AI is breaking the link...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Designing For Impact: A Results-driven Perspective For Executive Education
By Christoph Burger, Edward W. Boon and Nora Grasselli
A typical story
Jane is a manager at a large telecom company. Three months ago, she was...
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...
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,...
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...