This category is Global Business, exploring international market trends, trade dynamics, and business strategies shaping the global economy. It features expert insights on leadership, innovation, and economic developments influencing businesses worldwide.
Living Blue Mallorca: Your Trusted Partner for Buying or Selling Property in Paradise
Mallorca, with its stunning coastlines, charming villages, and idyllic rural landscapes, beckons those seeking a dream property in the Mediterranean. Whether you're searching for...
How Can Leaders Build Reputation in Chinese SMEs
By William S. Harvey, Hongqin Li, Oswald Jones and Jie Yang
How can leaders transform their SMEs from being unknown to being known and more...
4 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Insure Your Life Science Business
The Life Science industry is becoming the backbone of the world we live in today. Their importance cannot be undermined since they have been...
Top IoT Companies Grow Faster But Require All-In Commitment
By Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner
The Internet of Things is one of the many inevitable changes happening in our digital world. In this article,...
Heavy (Carbon) Footprints: can Subscription Shoes Create a Sustainable Footwear Industry?
By Patrick Reichert and Oscar Vosshage
Sneakers (or “trainers”, as they are known in the UK) are big business – and leave a heavy environmental...
Luxury Villas on Spain’s Costa Blanca – Your Mediterranean Paradise
Located on Spain's southeastern coast, the Costa Blanca is one of the country’s most coveted destinations, celebrated for its stunning beaches, vibrant culture, and...
Open a European company and travel freely within the European Union
Thinking about expanding your business in Europe? The European countries offer numerous opportunities and favourable business environment for entrepreneurs who want to trade freely...
5 Benefits of Outstaffing to Ukraine
When it comes to building software, your idea is the most important. This is because there are easy and cost-effective ways to bring your...
The Missing Puzzle Piece? How Action Learning Can Help Solve the Dual Challenge of...
By Alex Makarevich, Christian Acosta-Flamma and Simon L. Dolan
To win in the “war for talent”, companies can no longer rely on conventional recruitment methods...
Fixing the Progression Paradox: One Way to Accelerate Social Mobility
By Simon Eaves, Camilla Drejer and Dominic King
Socio-economic background continues to weigh on career progression in the UK. Despite this, a new Accenture study...
Chocolate Dreams, Farmer Nightmares: Unveiling the Harsh Realities of the Cocoa Trade
By Kenneth D. Johnson
Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world's top two cocoa producers, combined contribute two-thirds of the world's cocoa beans, the main ingredient...
The Silicon Valleys of Latin America – searching for “Shared Value” development models
By Luciano Ciravegna
Between 2003 and 2012 Latin America has lived through an unprecedented period of stability and positive economic performance. A region once associated...
Guy El Khoury, CEO of Accomplish Financial, Discusses Innovation in the Emerging Payments Sector
We recently sat down with Guy El Khoury to discuss his successful journey in setting up one of the very first service provider companies...
Internationalisation in Online Retailing
By Moritz Hahn and Niccolò Pisani
Online retailing is clearly on the rise. In this article the authors offer a snapshot of the current status...
Five Global Retail Trends
By Andrii Pavlenko
Andrey Pavlenko, CEO at the Scallium platform, highlighted 5 key trends that we observe in the international retail sector in 2021
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A Winning Deal: How Biculturals Can Supercharge Your International Business Negotiations
By Priyan Khakhar and Jasmina Najjar
Transform how you approach international business negotiations with new findings that provide a novel contribution to the field. Discover...
4 Best Ways to Use Instagram for Business
On August 2 2016, this feature was launched by Instagram in which multiple images and videos could be uploaded for a duration of 24...
Inside Ticino’s Luxury Real Estate: A Conversation with Wetag Consulting Co-Owner Ueli Schnorf
For nearly five decades, Wetag Consulting has stood at the forefront of the luxury real estate market in Ticino, Switzerland. As an independent, owner-managed...
Bigger is no Longer Better: Complexity and the New Frontier
By Andrei Perumal, Kelly Jones & Ann Bryan
The world has changed – and complexity has emerged as one of the defining issues of our...
Top University to Attend for a Career at a World-Leading Company
New research has revealed the London School of Economics & Political Science to be the best University to attend in order to work at some of the...
How to Expand Your Brand to International Markets
It is understandable why a brand may look into expanding into Europe or even further afield once they have found plenty of success domestically....
The Emerging Need to Embrace AI-Powered Hotel Revenue Management System for Better Business Growth
With the rise in technology, the revenue management system has evolved to reach a level where every component of it is automated. AI-powered revenue...
How Political Intelligence Sets Successful Leaders Apart
By Gerry Reffo and Valerie Wark
Leadership Alert! There are times when the classic development of leaders no longer fully equips them or their organisations...
Factory and Sourcing Tour : Top 3 Hottest Products to Export from Vietnam
The commodity export in Vietnam showed extraordinary resilience in 2021 despite the heavy impact of Covid-19. The turnover increased up to USD 336 billion,...
Premium Travel Services Where Personalisation Comes First: Interview with Ivan Saprov, CEO and Founder...
Unlike many other services for travellers where the emphasis is on automation, Voyagu's offering puts personalisation first, and only then applies the latest technology...
Fads and Fashions in Management
By Adrian Furnham
In this article, the author shows that many fads and fashions in management are short lived and based upon flimsy evidence, yet...
Passports for Sale
Interview with Till Neumann, IMCM, founder and managing partner of Citizen Lane
The luxury of a global lifestyle and world travel can be achieved through...
4 Unheard Benefits of EMDG
If you are a business person and the idea of expanding your services overseas fascinates you… then you will consider EMDG as one of...
Key Foundations to Going Global as a Startup
Working in a local market isn’t always enough for a startup. While there are a lot of opportunities to seize in local markets, the...
Which Companies Benefit Most from UN Global Compact Membership?
By Jette Steen Knudsen
In this article I examine a key business question: which kinds of companies are most likely to benefit from joining international...
The Role of Policy in a Competitive, More Resilient Europe
By Gwenaelle Avice
Europe’s Clean Industrial Deal offers a historic opportunity to align decarbonization with economic growth. Gwenaelle Avice Huet, EVP of European Operations at...
The Under-Examined Underbelly of Global Commerce: Tax Evasion
By Deanne Butchey and Jerry Haar
The globalization of trade and finance has significantly impacted the tax environment and tax policies worldwide. Ultimately, it has...
Don’t Confuse Resilient With Static
By Gareth Burton
Over recent years, it feels like there’s been a perpetual gloom hanging over the annual meeting of the WEF in Davos. In a...
6 Things Your Business Should Prioritize in 2021
With this year coming to an end, businesses find themselves already making plans for 2021. When it comes down to prioritizing in general, it...
Write Off or Right On?
By Andreas Tesch
What businesses consider to be an uncollectable debt may not always be as clear cut as is the case when a customer...
Business in Europe with the New Trump Administration
The potential return of Donald Trump to the presidency has already sparked conversations around how his administration could influence global business. Europe, a major...
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...
Indonesia’s Sporting and Economic Future is Bright, but Requires the Next Generation of Leaders...
Indonesian president Joko Widodo (centre) and PSSI Chairman and Minister for State-Owned Enterprises Erick Thohir (right)
Following weeks of wrangling and uncertainty, the stand-off between...
Change as Strategy
By Walter McFarland
This article suggests that some traditional approaches to organisational change are obsolete – and recommends a new approach focused on creating new...
5 Benefits of eLearning Localisation
When it comes to professional development and continuing education, eLearning has become the go-to solution for many organisations. eLearning allows employees to learn at...
How Costly Is Customer Churn in the Telecom Industry?
Telecommunications companies usually aren’t the most popular among consumers, anecdotally speaking. It’s pretty common to hear people express frustration with some aspect of their...
The Limits to Outsourcing: Beware of the Consequences for Market Success!
By Masaaki Kotabe, Michael J. Mol, Janet Y. Murray & Ronaldo Parente
Over the past few decades, outsourcing, in particular offshore outsourcing, has become a...
Strategies for Successful Global Expansion: Integrating Project Management Into International Business Plans
The landscape of global business is constantly changing. The purpose of global expansion has become a key objective for companies. Particularly for those firms...
Industry 4.0 –Designing the Factory of Tomorrow in North Rhine-Westphalia
It is the topic with the biggest economic dynamic. Industry 4.0 is revolutionising the production process – and North RhineWestphalia (NRW), Germany's industrial heartland,...
AIM for the New Frontiers of Work
By Chris Nichols, Philippa Hardman and Michael Chaskalson
Earlier articles in this series have introduced Team Mindfulness using the AIM model and explored how the...
Moving Beyond the Anecdotal: What Will It Take to Create Your Digital 2.0 Business...
By Todd Fisher and Richard Lynch A Strategy to Execution planning process focused on Technology Strategy, will raise the TQ (Technology Quotient) of ...
Redesigning Leadership: Design, Technology, Business + Life
By John Maeda and Becky Bermont
There is a simple saying in Japanese that epitomizes the nature of striving for excellence, “Ue ni wa ue...
How Some Companies Beat the Competition…for Decades and Even Centuries
By Howard Yu and Jialu Shan
The average lifespan of companies is becoming shorter. For them to survive the competition it is important to learn...
Alexander Galitsky: From a Theoretical Physicist to a Global Investor
Alexander Galitsky wanted to become a journalist in childhood and sold electric guitars. Today he’s the founder of one of the most successful investment...
What causes managers to change their business model?
By Tina Saebi, Lasse Lien and Nicolai Foss
Business models define how companies create, deliver and capture value. But business models are not static –...