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Cyber Supply Chain Risk Programme

A Practical Guide to Kick-starting Your Cyber Supply Chain Risk Programme

By Dr. Kamil J. Mizgier The digitalisation of global supply chains is unstoppable and there is no doubt about the upside potential it brings in...
Better Boards Podcast

The Better Boards Podcast Series: Can Accounting Save the World and Your Company?

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. As we recorded this podcast, the World Economic Forum convened...
Mid-Career

Making a Mid-Career Pivot with the Advanced Finance Program

Suzanne Ley spent more than 15 years in corporate and investment banking when she decided she needed a new challenge. “The dynamics of the...
Business Coaching Session

How Can You Benefit From Business Coaching Sessions?

Are you an entrepreneur or just a person in the business world who wants to achieve big things and has goals? It probably means...

The Better Boards Podcast Series: Rethinking Talent in the Boardroom

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. Organisations are facing major challenges. Many boardrooms have not yet...

Retention is About Respect, Growth, and Trust: How Leaders Inspire People to Stay

By Elena Putilina In an era of rising turnover and talent shortages, retention demands more than incentives — it requires respect, growth, and trust. Drawing...

Bo Parfet: Why Don Wenner Is A Leader Above the Rest

Don Wenner began his career in real estate in 2006 and quickly established himself as a leader in the industry. Prior to founding DLP...

The Funny Thing About Robot Leadership

By Jamie L. Gloor, Lauren C. Howe, David De Cremer and Kai Chi (Sam) Yam Are today’s employees getting “soft”? All signs suggest that employees should:...

Global Female Leaders 2015: International Networking for Female Leaders in Berlin

The Global Female Leaders Summit 2015 brought together female leaders from more than 20 countries in Berlin’s prestigious Adlon Kempinski Hotel during April 20th...
Elizabeth Eiss

Human Resourcefulness for the Smaller Business: Interview with Elizabeth Eiss

There are a host of recruitment platforms geared towards large enterprises. But what of the smaller business or one-person outfit looking to take on...

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...

Veronika Linardi, Co-founder & CEO, Qerja

The role I have carved out for myself is predominantly based on the experiences that molded me into the woman I am today, my...
Businessman giving bribe money in the envelope to partner in a corruption scam in office. Ethical value at work

Legal and Compliance Challenges in Ethical Value Chains: Mitigating Corruption and Protecting Brand Equity

By Ken D. Johnson and Dana E. Heitz The article explores how companies can build ethical value chains by addressing corruption through legal compliance and...
Network to the Networked Board

Governance 4.0: Moving Beyond Directors’ Networks to the Networked Board

By Dr. Dean Blomson Like many other things in the modern world (such as our road transport systems, for example), company boards operate according to...
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Mastering the Compassion-Accountability Paradox: A Practical Framework for Leaders

By Dr. Deborah Bayntun-Lees Leaders often struggle to balance compassion with accountability, fearing that one undermines the other. The Compassion-Accountability Matrix offers a practical framework...

Working Parents Employment Law: Does it Need an Overhaul?

By Jayne Harrison There has been an on-going struggle to pass laws that offer legal protection to pregnant working women. More and more people...

Changing The CEO Politics and Decisions at the Top

By Guido Stein & Manuel Gallego   Introduction 
Companies statistically dismiss twice as many CEOs in bad economic times as in good. Certainly, many senior executives have...
Decentralised AI

Decentralise to Incentivise: The Quest for Unbiased, Explainable AI

Interview with Ala Shaabana, Co-founder of Opentensor Foundation  Amid widespread concern regarding possible built-in bias, opacity, and misalignment in big-tech-dominated AI, one strategy that offers...

AGI as a Governance Event: From Decision Oversight to Architectural Sovereignty

By Massimiliano Ferraris As agentic systems generate strategic options before humans deliberate, boards must evolve from supervising outcomes to designing the very conditions under which...
Employee Wellbeing

The Financial Sector’s Guide to Employee Wellbeing

By Sarah Henson As the year begins and we start to plan for 2024, many are setting resolutions, perhaps considering how they can prioritise health...
Better Boards Podcast Series: Living with Uncertainty - The Importance of Transformation, Culture, and Talent

The Better Boards Podcast Series: Living with Uncertainty – The Importance of Transformation, Culture,...

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. In recent years, transformation skills have gained significant importance at the...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: Is Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Bad for Business?

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. Recently, there has been a surge on social media stating...
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AI: The Boardroom’s Blind Spot

By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor Most companies are deploying AI. Most boards can't govern it. The gap between adoption and oversight is becoming a...

A Fresh Perspective

By Damian Goldvarg Increasing numbers of individuals and organisations are discovering the powerful role that coaching can play in developing themselves. Below, Damian Goldvarg illustrates...
Data to the Rescue: Investing in (Female) Employees

Data to the Rescue: Investing in (Female) Employees

By Ineke Ceder and Sumru Erkut Can companies successfully align attention to their bottom line with the current urgent calls for wider diversity and inclusion?...

What Children can teach us about Leadership: Seeing both the Trees and The Forest

By David De Cremer  and Hannah De Cremer Leadership and management are two different things. Managing a work force today implies taking up the role...

Limitless Vision Infinite Possibilities: The Story of Allied Wallet CEO Andy Khawaja and his...

“Keep on climbing, the sky is the limit and believe me you will never reach the top because it’s endless.” In this interview, CEO...

Attributes of Engineers and Engineering for the 21st Century World

By PE Seeram Ramakrishna The world’s leading businesses are global. Below, PE Seeram Ramakrishna argues that engineering education should be reformed to nurture ‘global engineers’...

Why are some firms becoming more successful during the COVID-19 pandemic?

By Peter Lorange The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a worldwide recession of immense proportions.  Many companies are closing down, either for good or temporarily. ...
Supply Chain

Top 4 Entrepreneurial Strategies To Improve Your Supply Chain

If you’re running a retail or wholesale business, you know that one of the most important facets of your entire operation is your supply...
synergy or conflict

Synergy or Conflict? Lessons for managers on how to successfully adopt AI to augment...

By Jakob Stollberger and David De Cremer Artificial intelligence undeniably offers the potential to improve decision-making, at least in certain contexts. In this article, AI experts Jakob Stollberger...

Managing Your Manager

By Bill Smullen Most everyone still working today either has a boss or is a boss. Either way, you should want the boss to be...
Person finding his purpose

Why Finding Your Purpose is More Important than Ever

By Tim Jack Adams If people don’t feel like they have a purpose, they tend to drift. I believe that our primary purpose needs to...
International Women's day

Trailblazer Females – Women’s Day 2023: Today’s Workplace Equality Challenges

By Marcelina Horrillo Husillos, Journalist and Correspondent at The Business European Review As we celebrate International Women's Day in 2023, this article explores the incredible...

What Managers Need to Know about Platforms

By Annabelle Gawer A new and powerful way to compete has taken shape in our business landscape: Platform competition Whether we are talking about Google,...
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The Business Imperative of Female Leadership in AI

By Ana Paula Assis AI has emerged as a transformative  force that is reshaping businesses, economies, and societies worldwide. Business leaders in 2024 are at...
How Scott van den Berg Became the King of Celebrity Investing

Scott van den Berg on The Future of Influencer Marketing and Investing in Celebrity...

Interview with Scott van den Berg, Founder of CELEB Entrepreneur Scott van den Berg, founder of CELEB and Influencer Capital, talks to The European Business...
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Why Strong Technology Leadership Matters to Europe’s Future Competitiveness

The Right Leadership Can Help Bridge Europe's Lag in Technology Adoption, R&D, and Patents By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Svenja Falk, and Surya Mukherjee Increasing leaders’ technology quotient...

Leadership Dispatches: Business Lessons From A President Taking Charge

By Michael Useem, Howard Kunreuther, and Erwann Michel-Kerjan This article discusses the leadership of President Sebastián Piñera following the Chilean earthquake of 2010. The authors...
Improving Men’s Health with a Passion

Improving Men’s Health with a Passion: Interview with Sokratis Papafloratos, Founder and CEO of...

If male health has traditionally been a somewhat neglected field, perhaps it’s partly due to men’s reticence in seeking help when it’s required. One...
Mastering Stress: Essential Tips for Senior Executives

Mastering Stress: Essential Tips for Senior Executives

Senior executives are often faced with high-pressure situations and demanding workloads, which can lead to high levels of stress. While some stress is a...

Microlearning – The Key to Balancing Manager Development with Day-to-Day Responsibilities

By Cecilia Gorman In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses are up against greater challenges than ever before. Employees left jobs en-masse, known as...

What to Remember When Learning More About Your Family’s Past

Everyone desires to have a close-knit, happy, and peaceful home. Indeed, knowing your family's lineage is an aspiration of many. The objective lies in...
Architect of Decision Sovereignty Across Finance, Law and AI

Architect of Decision Sovereignty Across Finance, Law and AI

Interview with Massimiliano Ferraris As AI moves upstream into how decisions are formed, are organizations still truly in control or simply operating within systems they no longer fully understand? Governance expert Massimiliano Ferraris reflects on how artificial intelligence is reshaping decision-making,...
Jefferson health system

Leadership Plus: A Steady Hand and a Maverick for Good Times and Trying Times

By Michael Useem and Stephen K. Klasko, M.D.1 The search committee for a new chief executive of the Jefferson health system in 2013 had narrowed the...

Organizational Preparedness with COVID-19: Strategic Planning and Human Creativity

By Yingying Zhang-Zhang and Arup Varma COVID-19 arrived with force and unpredictability, dragging sectors and industries to an unprecedented and uncertain situation. Companies and organizations reacted, but most...

Is Compassionate Leadership a Driver of Huawei’s Business Success?

By David De Cremer and Tian Tao In this article, the authors trace giant telecom Huawei’s success to its founder’s commitment to compassionate leadership. In...

Curiosity That Drove a Journey to Tech Leadership and Innovation

Interview with Archana Kamath of DigitalOcean From her early fascination with electronics to her leadership in software-defined networking (SDN), Archana Kamath, Senior Director of Engineering...
Board simulation for business proofing

Board Simulations are Key to Future-Proofing Your Business

By Shefaly M Yogendra, PhD Board drills or simulations sharpen leadership’s ability to anticipate future challenges, react calmly to ‘black swan’ events and leverage opportunities...
Premium Travel Services

Premium Travel Services Where Personalisation Comes First: Interview with Ivan Saprov, CEO and Founder...

Unlike many other services for travellers where the emphasis is on automation, Voyagu's offering puts personalisation first, and only then applies the latest technology...

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