From Persuasion to Deal: Negotiating Conflicts
By Prof. Guido Stein, Salva Badillo and LucĂa Zelaya
Conflict negotiation saves lives and businesses. In crises, your most powerful weapon isn’t force. Instead, it’s...
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...
From Frustration to Focus: The Leadership Shift Required to Succeed in a World Overrun...
By Louisa Loran
Leaders often face the challenge of navigating constant change, where the instinct is to signal involvement, substituting activity for progress and leading...
When the Lights Go Out: America’s Retreat from Global Humanitarian Aid
By Patrick Reichert and Vanina Farber
This piece explores the ripple effects of America’s retreat from humanitarian aid and what it means for fragile states,...
Gartner: The Leadership Blind Spot: Why Executive AI Literacy Will Shape Business Outcomes in...
By Carlie Idoine
AI is rapidly shifting from a technical enabler to a core driver of business decisions. This piece explores why executive AI literacy,...
Looking Towards 2026 – Where Do We Go from Here?
By Jerry Haar and Altuğ Ülkümen
The business environment in 2026 will be heavily impacted by economic fragility, geopolitical instability, and social volatility. Growing protectionism, elevated...
Exposing the Racial Bias that Influences Day to Day Business Transactions
By Redzo Mujcic, Associate Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School
Racial bias may not always be overt. Indeed, individuals may not even be...
Avoiding the Janus Trap: Why Europe Must Commit to AI-powered Reinvention
By Mauro Macchi, Matt Prebble, Dominic King and Laura Ann Wright
Closing the competitiveness gap is a central pillar of the European economic reform agenda....
The Curry Puff Effect: How Small Acts of Appreciation Lifted DHL to the Top
By Avi Liran
Inspired by Chris Ong’s panel at HR Connect 360, Nanyang Business School, NTU
The ballroom at the luxurious Fullerton Hotel in Singapore was...
Equipping for Tomorrow: Unlocking New Skills for the Future of Work in 2033
By Dr. Simon L. Dolan, Dr. Mario Raich, and Iolanda Triviño
In an ever-evolving job market, embracing the future requires us to adapt and acquire...
Strategic Insights: Taking Over a Start-Up vs. an Established SME
By Fernanda Arreola, Damien Guermonprez, and Renaud Redien-Collot
The skills required to successfully lead one type of enterprise may not fully apply or be relevant...
The Executive’s Guide to Retirement: Making Peace and Building Your Next Chapter
By Michael Watkins and Chris Donkin
Having led others for so long, executives close to retirement often struggle with the prospect of leaving and slowly...
AI Agents will Empower Autonomous, Scalable and Networked Organizations
By Alessandro Lanteri and Mark Esposito
The rapid development of AI technology has brought in agentic AI systems with the ability to be autonomous and...
Making Sense of DeepSeek
By Jacques Bughin
DeepSeek, a large language model built by China, has become both a sensation as well as a source of concern for the...
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...
MIT CISR and The European Business Review Collaborate to Uncover Best Practices in Digital...
As businesses face increasing pressure to innovate in the digital age, the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (MIT CISR) has collaborated with The...
How to Build the Case for Culture ChangeÂ
By David Liddle
Workplace culture can be the greatest asset, or the greatest liability, an organisation has. Yet it is widely misunderstood, rarely talked about...
Art and Business
By Dr. Peter Lorange
Art and business are typically seen as two different things. While art tends to be associated with beauty, inspiration, and a...
Sorting Out the AI Gold Rush? Ten Opportunities in the Generative AI Value Chain
By Jacques Bughin and Duco Sickinghe
As the AI boom continues to accelerate, investors are keenly eyeing the generative AI sector for potential breakthroughs. Jacques...
Sorting Out the AI Gold Rush? Ten Opportunities in the Generative AI Value Chain
By Jacques Bughin and Duco Sickinghe
As the AI boom continues to accelerate, investors are keenly eyeing the generative AI sector for potential breakthroughs. Jacques...
What Makes a Business a Masterpiece?
By Peter Lorange
No aspect of a person’s behaviour exists in a vacuum, so that there is no clearly delineated boundary between the ways in...
How Top-Performing Firms Needed to Reorganise Seven Times for Digital
By Peter Weill & Stephanie L. Woerner
Top-performing firms reorganise several times to effectively use digital to capture value. In a series of CEO interviews,...
Unlocking the Power of AI Leadership: A Dialogue with Professor David De Cremer
David De Cremer gets to the heart of leadership in the era of rapid AI evolution. Discussing his upcoming book on the topic, he...
How AI Liberates the Transition to a Skill-Based Organisation
By Jacques Bughin and Jeroen Van Hautte
What do companies as diverse as Booking.com, Accenture, Revolut, GSK, Walmart, or Unilever have in common? Answer: they have...
Digital for Good: AI fit for progress
Technology, says Hamilton Mann, is not in itself sustainable or positive – it depends on how we choose to develop and apply it.Â
In this...
The EU AI Act: Trustworthy or Reckless AI?
By Jacques Bughin
Alongside the lightning-paced advancements in AI, a number of ethical quandaries have emerged, evidenced for example by deep fakes and incidences of...
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...
The Key Success Factors of a Powerful AI FactoryÂ
By Jacques Bughin
More and more companies are leveraging data and deep machine learning algorithms, leading to the emergence of the "AI factory" model. As...
Bitcoin is 15: Towards Adulthood or Speculative Bubble?
By Jacques Bughin
Globally, more than 15,000 businesses accept Bitcoin. To date, high flyers such as Microsoft, AT&T, Starbucks, Gucci, and Shopify accept Bitcoin in...
2024: What is the Near Future of Generative AI?
By Jacques Bughin
Generative AI has already made a big splash, but just how wet we're all going to get in the future is still...
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...