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,...
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....
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...
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...
From Persuasion to Deal: Negotiating Conflicts
By Prof. Guido Stein, Salva Badillo and Lucía Zelaya
Conflict negotiation saves lives and businesses. In crises, your most powerful weapon isn’t force. Instead, it’s...
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,...
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...
Trust, Transparency, and the Future of Performance Marketing
By Nick Waters
In the rush to embrace the automation of advertising campaigns with embedded AI tools, marketers have given up a lot of control,...
Beyond Bitcoin: How Stablecoins Are Solving Corporate Treasuries’ Biggest Pain Points
By Terence Tse and Dražen Kapusta
Are stablecoins the solution to companies' nervousness about adopting cryptocurrency into their everyday operations? As Terence Tse and Dražen...
The Leadership Blind Spot in AI: How Misalignment Derails Transformation and ROI
By Deepika Chopra
In the global race to unlock AI’s transformational potential, most organizations have focused on technology acquisition rather than organizational alignment—creating a critical...
Negotiating Across Cultures: How Global Differences Shape Expectations at the Bargaining Table
By Bhaskar Pant
People from different parts of the world often bring very different expectations to the bargaining table.
Cross-cultural negotiations hinge more on differing views...
How Leadership Gaps are Slowing the Technology Revolution
By Mike Wright
There has long been a divide between the technology function and other parts of many organisations. This hampers performance – strategic opportunities...
The Long-Lasting Consequence of the War in the Middle East
By Professor Brunello Rosa
Nobody knows what will happen at the end of the current Iran– US ceasefire. But some global consequences of the conflict...
What Western Leaders Can Learn from China’s Changing Business Etiquette in 2026
By Dr Catherine Hua Xiang
Chinese business etiquette is often reduced to rigid hierarchy and indirect communication, but this perspective no longer reflects reality. In...
The AI Trade Is Crowded. Space Isn’t.
By Terence Tse
AI undoubtedly has the attention of investors around the world, eager to ride the crest as the AI wave washes across the...
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...
The Key Success Factors of a Powerful AI Factory
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How to Build the Case for Culture Change
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
In this...