Maturity in Trading Comes with Learning
It is necessary for all of the traders to get some good kind of learning in the system. From there, all of the best...
Embrace Disruption in Financial Services Because It’s Here to Stay
By Jim Tomaney
The dinosaurs of old are ready to be challenged by businesses that have evolved and are hungry – This article discusses how...
Driving Success Through Agile Banking: An Exclusive Interview with Sergey Khotimskiy
Started out as a local bank catering to a niche market, Sovcombank became one of the largest in terms of assets and most profitable...
VAT Financing Isn’t Necessarily a Bad Thing: Here’s Why
HMRC is an equal opportunity entity when it comes to assessing taxes. Anybody who buys or sells in the UK knows that all too...
How to Find a Top Auto Lender in 2019 Even if You Have Good...
When you make a purchase such as a car or a house, you can either pay for the item, which for most would be...
What Beginners Need to Know About the EPS formula
The EPS formula is a measure of “rating” as such in the stock market that is very well respected by stocks market traders and...
How Banks Grow Now
By Piercarlo Gera, Alessandro Secchi and Luca Gagliardi
Spending on customer loyalty keeps going up, but returns are diminishing. This article will tackle how banks...
NOTHING IS FREE: Data-driven Optimisation Unlocks Freemium Business Models’ Real Potential
By Stefan Wagner and Julian Runge
In today’s digital era when the marginal cost of (re)production and distribution of products and services tend to be...
AI and Digital Resources in Fintech: Creating an Evolutionary Analytic Platform for “Risk” Estimation
By Stephan Kudyba
This article describes the potential for AI to augment risk estimation for both individual investors and financial market assets. AI processes vast...
Take Back Control: Sherilyn Williams Casiano on providing the affluent true control of their wealth
What is the secret to sustain and grow your wealth in the most effective and efficient way? In this interview with Sherilyn Williams Casiano,...
When Technology Meets Finance: An Interview with CFO, Rabobank Asia Niels Boudeling
Finance leaders are aware of the tremendous impact of technological advancements and of the need to improve their business strategies to keep their competitive...
The Fintech Opportunity for Banks in Europe
By Elena Mazzotti and Francesca Caminiti
Propelled by data-driven innovation, fintech companies continue to gain traction – taking some financial firms by surprise. For banks...
Machine Intelligence Will Shake Up Banking, But the Disruptors Won’t Be Fintech Startups
By Urs Rohner and Howard Yu
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are being woven into the fabric of every aspect of our lives. The financial...
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...
Sustainability: A $12 Trillion a Year Market by 2030
By John Elkington and Richard Roberts
Leading companies today are starting to think of sustainability as a tool for growing profitability, using frameworks such as...
Why Reward for Performance Fails to Deliver
By Jonathan Trevor
Blind conformity can be very dangerous especially when it comes to managing your company’s talent. In this article, the author elaborates on...
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:...
The Burning Platform of Retail Banking
By Magne Angelshaug and Tina Saebi
Without argue, digitalisation has changed many aspects of our everyday lives. With these changes come different challenges and one of...
Minding the Gap: Women and Angel Investing
By Susan Coleman and Alicia Robb
In spite of the impressive growth of women-owned firms in the United States in the recent years, they are...
Your Customer is Not Just King. He or She Can Be Your VC, Too!
By John Mullins
Are you looking for a venture capitalist to finance or grow your startup but you’re struggling in doing so? Surprisingly, perhaps, the...
The Quest for Operational Efficiency: The Story of DWIMBS
By Sherilyn Casiano
To operate a successful business effectively and efficiently, you need to have relevant and accurate information regarding the performance of the business....
Why has Microsoft paid US$26 billion for business networking platform LinkedIn?
By Mark Skilton
The Microsoft move to acquire LinkedIn is a better move than past buyouts, the infamous failure of the Microsoft purchase of Nokia...
Leveraging Collaborations to Create Shared Value
By Hervé Legenvre, Francois Bacalou & Hugues Schmitz
In this article the authors discuss how the competitiveness of an organisation and the health of the...
The Secret Life of Crowdfunding
By Adam J. Bock and Denis Frydrych
Crowdfunding is a much-hyped tool for entrepreneurs to access capital anywhere in the world. While media and public...
The Rationality of Risk, Part 2: Avoiding Risk, Keeping Busy, and Resorting with...
By Christopher Surdak, JD
In part two of the series on the Rationality of Risk, Chris Surdak provides an overview of some of the avoidance...
Why The Circular Economy Matters
By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, and Khaled Soufani
A Circular Economy represents not just a paradigm shift that waste is reconstructed to resources through reuse...
What Companies Must Do Now That Better Is Also Cheaper
By Paul F. Nunes and Larry Downes
Industry-disrupting products used to enter the market as inferior but more affordable versions of existing offerings, giving incumbents...
The Rationality of Risk: Creating Real Value After a Legacy of Easy Money
By Christopher Surdak
In order to get back on the path of value-creation and rational, sustainable economic growth, businesses must first tackle their tendency towards...
Growth Principles from a Decade of Billion-Dollar ‘Startups’
By Josemaria Siota and Luiz Zorzella
How did LinkedIn achieved a 35% revenue growth in 20151, after suffering media earthquakes in the previous months? Some...
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Really – The Impact of the Sanctions Against Russia
By Dan Steinbock
The sanctions against Russia are working; but not for Russia, Ukraine, the EU, or even the US.
In the 2nd quarter, Russia’s GDP...
How the Industrial Internet of Things Can Add to the Wealth of Nations
By Mark Purdy and Ladan Davarzani
To capture the benefits of Internet-connected machines, national leaders must nurture the conditions that are needed to translate technological...
Will Europe’s Leading Companies Survive the ‘Lost Decade’?
By Dan Steinbock
Growth in the Euro area continues to stagnate as Europe's “lost decade” progresses slowly. Dan Steinbock discusses where Brussels and the European...
What Could Be a Hidden Key for a Successful Merger and Acquisition Project?
By Mark Goyens and David De Cremer
The way we engage, communicate and deal with people involved in each phase of a merger and...
Aargau, Switzerland: Home of Innovation
Welcome to Aargau – the Swiss high-tech canton with a Triple A rating. In Aargau, where the number of people working in R&D is...
The Ingenuity Challenge: What Big Data Really Means for Big Business
By Mihnea Moldoveanu
Big Data presents a unique challenge to big business, one that intelligence as we now think of it cannot solve alone. Big...
Swarm Economics: How 3D Manufacturing Will Change the Shape of the Global Economy
By Olaf Groth, Mark Esposito and Terence Tse
The collaborative economy and commons are challenging the way
The Personal Wealth Revolution – Time to Formalise Your Family Office
By Sherilyn Casiano
For the entrepreneur and closely- held family business owner, a family office, set up with the proper foundation, can be a huge...
Are High Growth Firms Really About Profit, or Just Greed?
By Malin Brännback and Alan Carsrud
Successful and profitable growth firms come from a variety of industries, but many viable business ideas are overlooked by...
Le Roi est mort, vive Le Roi Life after Succession
By Sherilyn Casiano
In the conversation about succession planning, most of the discussion revolves around the future continuity of the business. Very little is said...
Future Proofing the Capital Value of Your Business
By Richard Shrapnel
Succession is a dynamic journey, and anyone involved in this process should seek to understand it before venturing forward. Below, Richard Shrapnel...
Eight Types of Corporate Crisis and the Role of National Culture
By Kai Hammerich & Richard D. Lewis
A crisis is a defining moment in any organization’s life. Below, Kai Hammerich and Richard D. Lewis consider...
The Blue Line Imperative: A Radical New Approach to Value-Based Leadership
By Kevin Kaiser & S. David Young
In The Blue Line Imperative: What Managing for Value Really Means, Kevin Kaiser and S. David Young introduce...
6 Keys to Inventory Optimisation
By Karin Bursa
Many companies around the world have adopted inventory optimisation and those without a formal process are falling behind their competition. Effective companies...
First Look: Developing A New Map For Effective Business Succession in Family Businesses
By Richard Shrapnel
Family Business Succession is never a simple, straightforward endeavour. Besides the financial outcomes of the transition, the human needs and emotional involvement...
Global Recessions: A Survivor’s Manual
By Irv Rothman
The article is an excerpt from the book “Out-Executing the Competition: Building and Growing a Financial Services Company in Any Economy”, by...
Fast-Expanding Markets: Where New Growth Can Be Found!
By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito & Khaled Soufani
This article is dedicated to provide a working definition of these markets, which we call “Fast-Expanding Markets”...
A ‘Sigh of Relief’ at Davos: Confidence and Caution Shared Center Stage
By Michael Useem
“Wharton management professor Michael Useem, returning from his 11th trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, reports that confidence in the...
Who Innovates Out of the Crisis?
By Daniele Archibugi, Andrea Filippetti and Marion Frenz
The recent economic crisis has severely reduced the short-term willingness of firms to invest in innovation. But...
Board of Directors Oversight of Leadership Risk
By Patrick R. Dailey and Charles H. Bishop
The practice of Enterprise Risk Management was born as a consequence of the Enron collapse in...
Going for Gold in the Productivity Olympics? Your Choices in Reward Administration are Business...
By James Markham
In my previous article (ref: TEBR July/August 2012 edition), I argued that organisations are not paying enough attention to how the Reward...
