Commentary

This category is Commentary, featuring expert opinions, in-depth analyses, and thought-provoking perspectives on business, leadership, and global trends. It provides critical insights into emerging challenges, innovations, and strategic solutions shaping industries and economies.

Days of Glory past

From the Editors In the run up to the 12 May 2016 Anti Corruption Summit in the UK last week, the British premier let off...

Be a Fool! It’s What Crisis Leadership Really Needs

By David De Cremer It’s hard to see a crisis coming. Crisis situations usually arrive at moments we do not expect it and as a...
Is Kenya the Sick Man of Africa?

Is Kenya the Sick Man of Africa?

In the 1970s, Britain was fairly described as the sick man of Europe. Today, Kenya is very much the sick man of Africa despite...
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Ukraine to Convene Crimea Platform Summit: Why Zelensky’s “Day of Triumph” May Come Back...

Today begins the Crimea Platform international summit, which will be convened by Ukraine in the capital Kiev. It took more than a year for...

What Leaders Can Learn from Both Clinton and Trump

By Katharina Balazs When connecting with an audience, Hillary Clinton leads with the head while Donald Trump comes from the heart: both hold lessons for...

UK – the most undemocratic democracy

From the Editors The United Kingdom woke up on Friday 23 June to new realities: the Kingdom was no longer ‘united’ and its constituent parts...

The Illusion of Choice

From the Editors As Greece and the rest of the Eurozone finally reached an agreement last week for a third Greek bailout package, one cannot...
Tariffs in Europe and US

US Tariffs: How Should Europe Respond?

By Dr Angela Garcia Calvo As Europe (and the rest of the world) continues to navigate the daily twists and turns of President Trump’s recent...

Enemy within

From the Editors Europe is in the grips of anti-immigrant sentiments aimed mostly against their Muslim citizens and new émigrés. One wonders what would happen...

5 Ways Trump or Clinton Could Make Government Run More Like a Business

By Howard Schweitzer Applying business concepts to government is not a fantasy. With the right leader, a heavy dose of patience and good ideas, government...
Rental Crisis in Berlin: Why Tenants Are Suing

Rental Crisis in Berlin Explained: Why Tenants Are Suing, Landlords Are Leaving, and Debt...

Berlin – The German capital, once an affordable haven for students, artists, and digital nomads, is now struggling with a less visible but equally...

NGOs and Millennials – A Blinding Love Affair?

From the Editors As we start 2017 we look back to 2016 to consider some of the interesting events that will continue or influence the...

United Airlines, Artificial Intelligence, and Donald Trump: Reawakening Values in the Era...

By Avi Liran and Simon L. Dolan Society has evolved and not all aspects of our lives were able to cope up with the changes...
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A Google Software Engineer Believes an AI has Become Sentient. If He’s Right, How...

By Oscar Davis Google’s LaMDA software (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a sophisticated AI chatbot that produces text in response to user input. According to software...

A New World Order with Industry 4.0

From the Editors The Internet of things has invaded individual space and now live in our pockets in the shape of that little computer gadget...
ChatGPT, Large Language Models

ChatGPT, Large Language Models (LLM) – Are Transformational Technologies Challenging our Set of Values?

By Marcelina Horrillo Husillos, Journalist and Correspondent at The European Business Review  Is the ChatBox Adding Knowledge or Leading Us to Stupidity? AI and the...

The Coronavirus Threat – The issue of reopening our economies or continuing the lockdown,...

By Dr. Peter Lorange Over the last few months, almost all countries in the world have been faced with the challenge of how to handle...

A Magna Carta for Inclusivity and Fairness in the Global AI Economy

By Olaf Groth, Mark Nitzberg and Mark Esposito Machine meritocracy is here. In this article, the authors elaborate on questions of inclusivity, fairness, and governance....

The Importance of Consumption Policy During Recession

By He Jun The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic continues to deepen. Unlike the past financial crises, this pandemic has dealt a sudden "systemic...
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Tyrant Leadership: Putin and the Psychology of Power

By John Taylor and Adrian Furnham Vladimir Putin appears to be firmly in control of his country, able to bend it to his will and...

Australian Regulator Wastes Millions on “Overly Aggressive” Crusade Against Job Creator GetSwift

In these difficult times, hundreds of global employees (especially in the Americas and Europe) at GetSwift can take comfort in the growth trajectory of...

A Tale of Two Cities

From the Editors The results of the May 2015 UK general elections were received with contrasting reactions from two camps. Less than 48 hours after...

Europe at the ‘Hot Gates’! 

By Dr. Jack Rasmus  2500 years ago, the myth goes, 300 Spartans faced a much larger military force from the East at Thermopylae, a small mountain...
The Five Paradoxes of Brexit

The Five Paradoxes of Brexit

By David De Cremer Brexit – despite all the promises made – is not necessarily about creating a better economic future for the country but...

Election Postmortem – The Leadership System

By Barbara Kellerman Impossible to make much sense of what happened – President-elect Donald Trump – so soon after the fact. But when the history...
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Farmer Protests Erupting Across EU Should Be a Wakeup Call for Brussels

After pressing pause on weeks of disruption for negotiations with the federal government, Farmers’ Association President Joachim Rukwied cautioned on 18 January that the...

It Pays to be Nice

From the Editors Ryanair’s 32% jump in their first-half year profits for this year is said to be down to Ryanair being nice to its...

Is it really so bad to have a business mogul as president?

By Stephen Gibbs Donald Trump’s image as a street fighter offering a voice to the disenfranchised propelled him to victory in the US election....

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