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Changing strategies when you are late to the game

October 26, 2021 • by Howard H. Yu in Brain Circuits • 3 min read

While ideally we are all looking forward and leading agile businesses, sometimes you miss a trend. When you start late, it's a good time to look for some unorthodox solutions. Are you...

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Adopt an entrepreneurial mindset to take responsibility and capture the opportunities presented by the climate emergency

October 26, 2021 • by Julia Binder, Knut Haanaes, Anette Mikes, Natalia Olynec, Peter Tufano in Leadership • 8 min read

Professors from IMD and Oxford Saïd Business School explore the opportunities and risks presented to executives as they transform their businesses on the road to decarbonization....

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How to thrive in the time of turmoil: from soaring costs to supply chain bottlenecks and labor shortages

October 26, 2021 in Leadership • 5 min read

Executives can break the gloom and fortify their business against disruption by adopting these risk strategies....

How to rebound when your sector takes a hit: Part three

October 25, 2021 • by Niccolò Pisani in Brain Circuits • 2 min read

To insulate yourself from future market disruptions, it is critical to build flexibility into every aspect of your organization....

How oil independent survived threat to its ethical values

October 22, 2021 • by Benoit F. Leleux, Loïc Godail in Sustainability • 6 min read

Lundin Energy’s longstanding commitment to sustainability was challenged by an oil price war and the slump caused by the pandemic. Here’s how the company rose to the challenge....

Questions your company should be asking to be future-ready

October 22, 2021 • by Howard H. Yu in Brain Circuits • 3 min read

We have studied companies that were more successful during the pandemic to identify what they were doing differently. To test if you are doing the right things to be future-ready, you should...

How to rebound when your sector takes a hit: Part two

October 21, 2021 • by Niccolò Pisani in Brain Circuits • 3 min read

Understanding the environment around you may seem like one of the most obvious aspects of developing a strategy, but often when you have a blind spot, you don’t know it....

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Should I Fly Episode 5: Entrepreneurs & Investors

October 21, 2021 • by Jim Pulcrano, Patrick Reinmoeller in Podcasts • 1 min read • Podcast available

Could innovation save the airline industry? Jim and Patrick look to the world of entrepreneurs and investors, to find out...

What’s happening to Chinese fintech?

October 21, 2021 • by Bin Li in Asian hub • 4 min read

The first online loan products for SMEs in China to be offered through mobile channels come thanks to the country’s recent fintech revolution. We spoke to Bin Li, Chief Researcher of Fintech...

Three questions to help you manage corporate digital responsibility

October 20, 2021 • by Öykü Işık, Michael R. Wade in Brain Circuits • 3 min read

You can think of data in a very similar way to a physical product, and that comes with a number of ethical issues including how it is sourced, transported, sold, packaged, and...

Seeking common prosperity from a global perspective

October 20, 2021 • by Xiang Bing in Asian hub • 16 min read

Since 1979, the market economy and global free competition has created unprecedented economic development and wealth creation. However, this has also led to massively uneven distribution of income and wealth, a decline...

How to know if your industry is about to be disrupted

October 19, 2021 • by Howard H. Yu in Brain Circuits • 2 min read

It is important to be in front of any major changes coming to your industry. There are signs you can look for that will signal if change is underway and you have...

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Set the CEO free if you want to be a success, says Straumann chairman

October 19, 2021 in CEO Dialogue Series • 9 min read

Gilbert Achermann has taken on both roles with the Swiss dental group, giving him an insight into how to make the relationship between the two work well...

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How smart subsidies help social entrepreneurs scale impact

October 18, 2021 • by Patrick Reichert in Finance • 6 min read

To make social enterprise financially viable, investors should optimize subsidy design...

How to rebound when your sector takes a hit: Part one

October 18, 2021 • by Niccolò Pisani in Brain Circuits • 3 min read

Executives now take the possibility of things like supply chain disruptions far more seriously than they previously did. When you perceive risks and disruptions as real and likely threats, it shapes our...

In the lonely century, office time gives staff the ‘social glue’ to perform better

October 15, 2021 • by David Bach in Human Resources • 7 min read

An alarming rise in loneliness is damaging our health, our communities and the bottom line. Having convinced themselves of the benefits of remote working, companies must not lose sight of the importance...