Swarm Economics: How 3D Manufacturing Will Change the Shape of the Global Economy
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The collaborative economy and commons are challenging the way
The Secret Life of Crowdfunding
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Crowdfunding is a much-hyped tool for entrepreneurs to access capital anywhere in the world. While media and public...
Eight Types of Corporate Crisis and the Role of National Culture
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A crisis is a defining moment in any organization’s life. Below, Kai Hammerich and Richard D. Lewis consider...
What Could Be a Hidden Key for a Successful Merger and Acquisition Project?
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The way we engage, communicate and deal with people involved in each phase of a merger and...
The Personal Wealth Revolution – Time to Formalise Your Family Office
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For the entrepreneur and closely- held family business owner, a family office, set up with the proper foundation, can be a huge...
The Employee Owned Business Model During Growth and Adversity: How Well Does it Hold...
By Joseph Lampel, Ajay Bhalla & Pushkar P. Jha
Criticism of modern corporate capitalism in the wake of the current economic crisis is reawakening interest...
Le Roi est mort, vive Le Roi Life after Succession
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In the conversation about succession planning, most of the discussion revolves around the future continuity of the business. Very little is said...
Sustainability: A $12 Trillion a Year Market by 2030
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Leading companies today are starting to think of sustainability as a tool for growing profitability, using frameworks such as...
The Blue Line Imperative: A Radical New Approach to Value-Based Leadership
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In The Blue Line Imperative: What Managing for Value Really Means, Kevin Kaiser and S. David Young introduce...
Your Customer is Not Just King. He or She Can Be Your VC, Too!
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Are you looking for a venture capitalist to finance or grow your startup but you’re struggling in doing so? Surprisingly, perhaps, the...
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...
Neuroeconomics. An Emerging Field of Theory and Practice
By James Giordano, Roland Benedikter and Nadia Flores
This article gives a short, introductory overview of basic aspects of the emerging field of neuroeconomics, as...
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...
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...
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...
Binary Options: An Innovative and Intelligent Way of Trading
By Banc De Binary
Founded in the wake of the 2008 decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list binary options on the...
Timberland Investments: A risk analysis
By Klaus Biskup
Specialist knowledge is essential to maximizing timberland investment opportunities, and in particular, assessing the risks involved…
Over recent years timberland investments have gained...
When Spending Hurts
By Nailya Ordabayeva and Pierre Chandon
Thorstein Veblen coined the term conspicuous consumption in 1899 to describe spending with the intention of gaining social status.1...
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:...
Understanding Cloud Computing Competition, Environment and Finance
By Federico Etro
Cloud computing allows firms to rent computing power and storage from cloud computing providers, and to pay on demand; this improves productivity...
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...
Revenue Performance Management As A Business Growth Strategy
By Phil Fernandez
For more than a decade, I have had a mantra that has guided my personal approach to leadership. It goes like this:...
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...
The Future Quotient: Managing Seriously Long-Term Risks and Opportunities
By John Elkington
To succeed in the new world order, leaders need to switch from thinking about incremental change to transformational, systemic change.
An old order...
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...
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...
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 Economic Aftermath of the Recent Earthquake in Sendai, Japan
By Ilan Noy
Natural disasters potentially impact severely on economic dynamics — e.g. on production, prices, incomes, and employment — in the post-disaster period.
Over the...
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...
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...
How the Industrial Internet of Things Can Add to the Wealth of Nations
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To capture the benefits of Internet-connected machines, national leaders must nurture the conditions that are needed to translate technological...
The Fintech Opportunity for Banks in Europe
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Propelled by data-driven innovation, fintech companies continue to gain traction – taking some financial firms by surprise. For banks...
Who Innovates Out of the Crisis?
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The recent economic crisis has severely reduced the short-term willingness of firms to invest in innovation. But...
Bigger is no Longer Better: Complexity and the New Frontier
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The world has changed – and complexity has emerged as one of the defining issues of our...
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...
Understanding the Cost of Cloud: Cost analysis of In-house vs. Cloud-based Hosting Options
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Will cloud-based hosting be economically feasible for any given application if it migrated into the cloud?...
The Rationality of Risk: Creating Real Value After a Legacy of Easy Money
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In order to get back on the path of value-creation and rational, sustainable economic growth, businesses must first tackle their tendency towards...
Does China Want to Buy Up Europe? Europe’s Crisis and China’s Reluctant Rise
By Roland Benedikter and Jae-Seung Lee
In the occasion of Germany’s Angela Merkel’s visit to China on 3rd February 2012, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao stated...
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...
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...
Credit Insurance – An inside story
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To help provide a more detailed insight into the broader function of credit insurance and the business benefits, the best way is...
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Developing a Breakthrough Service Model for Profitable Growth
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Stronger competition and more demanding customers require companies to deliver exceptional service and ultimately offer differentiated value propositions in...
Why Reward for Performance Fails to Deliver
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Blind conformity can be very dangerous especially when it comes to managing your company’s talent. In this article, the author elaborates on...
Will Europe’s Leading Companies Survive the ‘Lost Decade’?
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Growth in the Euro area continues to stagnate as Europe's “lost decade” progresses slowly. Dan Steinbock discusses where Brussels and the European...
Global Recessions: A Survivor’s Manual
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Getting More for Less: Revolutionising the Reward “Asset” Empowering Reward to Perform Better. Are...
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In a period of recession, most major companies look for new ways of selling or streamlining operations. Rarely, however do companies turn...
The Quest for Operational Efficiency: The Story of DWIMBS
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To operate a successful business effectively and efficiently, you need to have relevant and accurate information regarding the performance of the business....
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Really – The Impact of the Sanctions Against Russia
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The sanctions against Russia are working; but not for Russia, Ukraine, the EU, or even the US.
In the 2nd quarter, Russia’s GDP...
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What is the secret to sustain and grow your wealth in the most effective and efficient way? In this interview with Sherilyn Williams Casiano,...
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