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This category is Editors’ Pick, featuring a curated selection of insightful articles, expert analyses, and thought-provoking content. It highlights the most impactful stories, trends, and ideas shaping the future of business, leadership, and innovation.

AI Agents

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...
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Nuance In, Noise Out: Helping your Team Maintain Focus Amidst Uncertainty 

By Dr. Rebecca Homkes  Great strategy thrives when it breaks critical tension. Strategic leaders have long balanced timeframes, focus versus adaptability, and clarity amongst uncertainty....
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How to Better Understand Your Market to Drive Business Growth

By Francis Rodino  If you don’t truly understand your market, you’re shooting in the dark. Successful businesses thrive on market intelligence—knowing exactly who their customers...
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How to Secure Venture Capital Funding: A Step-by-Step Guide for Startups 

By Kyrillos Akritidis  Venture capital (VC) funding is often the lifeline for startups seeking to grow rapidly and achieve their ambitious goals. However, with global...
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“two sexes” – Trump Executive Order: From Gender Dysphoria Controversy to Gender Stigma

By Marcelina Horrillo Husillos, Journalist and Correspondent at The European Business Review On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed more than...
The Empathy Illusion

The Empathy Illusion: Why AI’s Perceived Humanity Matters More Than Its Reality

By Luke Treglown AI is transforming how we work and interact, not just through efficiency but by mimicking human qualities like personality and empathy. As...
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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...
Intuition or Data

Intuition or Data? Are You Ready to Let Artificial Intelligence Choose Your New House...

By Fernanda Arreola and David Jaidan The accessibility of new tools for improving our decision-making based on data seems to be a promising way to...
Web3 and AI

Web3 and AI: Hype Train or the Real Deal? Exploring the Tech behind the...

By Andrea Maria Cosentino and Terence Tse The convergence of Web3 and AI, two of the most promising technologies of our time, has sparked a...
MIT CISR

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...
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Environmental Heroes and Villains – What Separates Truly Sustainable Organisations from those that Play...

By Giovani Palafox-Alcantar COP29 underscored the gap between climate commitments and tangible actions, reflecting both progress and significant challenges. What is the critical role of...
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Top Picks for 2025: Key Articles for Leaders and Readers

As we move into 2025, leaders are navigating a rapidly changing economic and cultural landscape, where understanding technological innovation, shifting business models, and global...
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“Reverse Backstabbing”- The Art of Praising People Behind Their Backs

By Avi Liran Gossip can be hurtful and malicious, leaving behind a bad smell. And while we may not always avoid it, we can choose...

What Does the Global Technology Workforce Really Want?

By Ana Doval de las Heras, SVP at Amadeus Want to know what really matters to your people? Why not ask them? That's exactly what...

Leadership and AI: Leading AI’s Impact from the Classroom to the Boardroom

By Nada Sanders, Koen Pauwels, Christoph Riedl, Rick J. Arrowood, and David De Cremer Should the deployment and facilitation of AI be left to tech experts? How does...

All Pulling Together: Smartsheet Ramps up the Team Power

Interview with Sarfraz Ali of Smartsheet In this interview, Smartsheet EMEA VP and General Manager Sarfraz Ali sets out how, with its revamped UI and...
European economy

How European Companies Can Drive Reinvention and Resilience through Generative AI

By Mauro Macchi, Dominic King, and Ladan Davarzani Europe’s economy shows promise, but stock market turbulence, political uncertainty and war could disrupt it any time....
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Bloomberg’s Top-Ranked Asia-Pacific MBA Programs for 2024-2025

The Bloomberg 2024 rankings have once again spotlighted the dynamic world of business education, with a particular focus on the rising influence of Asia-Pacific...

Unlocking innovation with xTech partners

By Alan Thorogood and Stephanie L. Woerner When undertaking a sizable project, a large organization might consider partnering with a small company in order to...
European Automakers

Shifting Gears: How European Automakers Can Survive the EV Disruption

By Juergen Reers, Marcello Tamietti, Philipp Kupferschmidt, Stefan Hattula, and Sheryl Yaping Yu European automakers face growing competition from Chinese and U.S. electric vehicle (EV)...

Why Value Value?

By Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs and Bill Huyett Most executives have figured out how to create value for shareholders through experience, observation, and intuition. They’ve...
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From Cradle to Manager: Children’s Books as a Pathway to Build Emotional Intelligence and...

By Jason Woldt and Mary Sue Woldt What makes a great leader? Can children be trained for leadership right from the cradle? In this article,...
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Navigating the Future of Online Advertising with WEB3

By Frank Cespedes and Ben Plomion For years, digital ad spend was a steadily growing portion of marketing budgets, reaching over $601 billion globally in...

The Great Resignation

By Adrian Furnham Many believe that the young generation is not interested in working, with some calling them the Lazy Generation. The concept of the...

Rethinking Productivity: The Case for a Four-Day Work Week

By Andrew Barnes Entrepreneur Andrew Barnes, founder of 4 Day Week Global, discusses the transformative potential of a four-day work week and contends that focusing...
supply chain

How Global Companies Are Implementing Supplier Diversity Policies

By Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca and Gemma Berenguer It has become increasingly common for companies to implement supply-chain diversity to maintain a good image...
Tech Leadership for Women

Empathy and Empowerment: Transforming Tech Leadership for Women

Interview with Stacy Bohrer of OpenX  Discover how empathy, mentorship, and creating supportive environments can drive success, foster innovation, and inspire the next generation of...

There Will Be No Human-Centered AI without Humane Economics.

By Hamilton Mann Digital technologies, while enhancing efficiencies, can exacerbate environmental degradation. AI, despite its potential to support sustainable development, is not exempt from these...
Michael McCreesh’s Mission to Showcase Taiwan’s Outdoors

Adventure Awaits: Michael McCreesh’s Mission to Showcase Taiwan’s Outdoors

In this exclusive interview, we talk with Michael McCreesh, the dynamic Founder and CEO of Taiwan Outdoors. Michael reveals his passion for Taiwan’s diverse...

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,...
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Platform Thinking: What Established Firms Can Learn From Big Tech and Digital Start-Ups

By Daniel Trabucchi & Tommaso Buganza The platform revolution has already taken place, but we link the idea of platforms with Big Tech like Amazon...
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Part B: Designing Organisational Ecosystems and Overcoming Barriers to Implementation

By Jonathan Trevor and Kazuhiro Asakawa In the second of a two-part series on aligning organisational ecosystems to be fit for purpose and high-performing, this...

Lucky By Design 5 Clever Attitudes to Tilt Odds in Your Favour

By Avi Liran While you wait for your ship to come in, have you given any thought to building a lighthouse, or even dredging the...
AI savvy

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...

How to Put Curiosity to Work in Your Organisation

By Louise Muhdi Companies are starting to understand why it is important to cultivate curiosity among their workforce. Yet, only a few possess a good...
Resilient Organisation

How to Build a Resilient Organisation

Attributed to Loizos Heracleous, Professor of Strategy at Warwick Business School As macro factors such as economic trends, public health, war, technology development and...
Aligning Organisational Ecosystems to be Fit for Purpose

Aligning Organisational Ecosystems to be Fit for Purpose

By Jonathan Trevor and Kazuhiro Asakawa In the first of a two-part series, we explore how firms are reaping the benefits of leveraging a network...
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Trust-Me: A Concept and Metric to Embed in Leaders, Enhancing their Effectiveness

By Simon L. Dolan, Kyle Brykman and Shay S. Tzafrir Every leader needs to inspire trust in their followers, employees, and stakeholders. Trust is one...
Business Leadership Paradigm

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...
Game

Mastering the Game: Lessons in Leadership from Rugby to the Boardroom

By Darren Cassidy Mastering the Game: Lessons in Leadership from Rugby to the Boardroom explores the parallels between high-performance rugby and successful business leadership. Drawing...
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Pivot or Perish: Modern Enterprise Networks Will Drive the Digital Future in Europe

By Jefferson Wang, Michele Marrone, and Swati Vyas As Europe sets out to deliver on its second digital agenda, companies will need to equip themselves...
trustworthy AI

Hacking Trustworthy AI

By Jacques Bughin In the aftermath of the initial AI tidal wave that has rolled across business and industry, there are signs that the emphasis...
Navigating the Business Horizon

Navigating the Business Horizon: 10 Essential Insights from The European Business Review

By Pamela Martinez “In this moment, we must all be learners – figuring out not how to simply make the best of it, but how to...
Algorithmic Governance

Enterprises Must Establish Algorithmic Governance in Advance of Regulatory Mandates

By Mark Esposito, Aurélie Jean, Terence Tse and Guillaume Sibout In AI, as in myriad other fields, past and present, technological developments go blazing ahead...
Artificial Intelligence and Negotiations

Artificial Intelligence and Negotiations: Should You Go All in?

By Daniel Freeman AI is becoming smarter and being utilised in our daily lives, whether we realise it or not. You may be wondering at...
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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...
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Building Brand Engagement: Lessons from NFTs and Collectibles

By Frank Cespedes and Ben Plomion The hype about NFTs might be over, but when carefully deployed, they remain a viable tool for brand engagement,...
Pioneering Biotech Investment

Pioneering Biotech Investment with Patient-Centric Vision

Interview with Dr. Simeon George from SR One Capital Management The biotech industry, a realm of constant innovation and transformation, is driven by brilliant minds...
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Going Faster Is Not Enough Add Innovation to Outperform

By Peter Weill, Jan Brecht and Stephanie L. Woerner To stay relevant and achieve resilience, company leaders need to focus not only on speed but...
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The Art of Future Design — Part II: Deployment, Wholeness, and Impact on...

By Kristine M. Kawamura, Mario Raich, Simon L. Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo In this article, we extend the logic that was previously published...

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AI Search Revolutionises Brand Discovery – Here’s How to Get Noticed

By Claire Snook In 2025, AI-powered search is poised to become the foundation of how brands connect with their customers. Advances like ChatGPT, SearchGPT, as well as the strategic pivot from traditional search engines toward...
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The Lawbreaker: How Deliberate Rule-Breaking Drives Innovation 

By Doug Hall  Transformational ideas require a leap of faith. They require you to break free of your “adultness” to allow your mind to run free and unconstrained. This article presents one of the most...

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