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A high sustainability rating does not necessarily equate to real sustainability impact (and profit).

Doing Good: Where Sustainable Investing Gets It Wrong

By: EBR | Thursday, December 17, 2020

Annoying jargon exists in all business disciplines. Responsible Investor recently asked its readers for the words they would like to see banished from the lexicon of sustainable finance

"Climate neutrality and digital leadership will not be an easy task for Europe. The transformative agenda of the European Green Deal is as demanding as it is compelling. Some CEOs perceive it as a Herculean task."

EU companies ready to take on twin green, digital transitions

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 16, 2020

EU employers are ready to switch gear and accelerate the roll-out of the green and digital transitions

Three business characteristics can serve as leading indicators of possible human-rights abuses in the making.

How Operations Can Stop Labour Violations Before They Happen

By: EBR | Tuesday, December 15, 2020

For decades, policymakers and corporate CSR departments have undertaken sustained, sincere efforts to clamp down on labour abuses such as slavery, perilous working conditions and wage theft

"Founders make fewer mistakes and pivot in the right direction when they learn to challenge their own assumptions and experiment continuously."

Is There a Scientific Formula For Start-up Success?

By: EBR | Monday, December 14, 2020

Even in the best of times, starting a business is like running a marathon with the odds stacked against you

Report highlights organizational design principles that can drive more ethical behaviour in technology.

5 traits of organizations that use tech responsibly

By: EBR | Friday, December 11, 2020

As new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing and blockchain become mainstream, and their practical uses more pervasive, myriad new business opportunities will be created

When the going gets tough, bring on improvisation and learning.

How Start-ups in Emerging Markets Succeed Despite Scarcity

By: EBR | Friday, December 11, 2020

2019 was a record year of venture capital funding for start-ups in emerging economies from Latin America, Africa to Southeast Asia

From finance to smart cities, distributed ledger technology is beginning to deliver on its vaunted potential in several key sectors.

The New Business Models (and Jobs) in Blockchain

By: EBR | Thursday, December 3, 2020

Given the Bitcoin price craze in the face of the morose economy during the Covid-19 pandemic, one may assume that the distributed ledger technology (DLT)/blockchain bubble is ready to burst once again

A recent study revealed that 78% of employees put data at risk inadvertently.

How secure is your data? 3 predictions and 3 protections in the age of hybrid work

By: EBR | Friday, November 27, 2020

Covid-19 introduced a paradigm shift in working culture. The new era of the “hybrid employee” has required a recalibration of how organizations provide secure, productive and digitally enabled environments for their employees

The old methods of demand generation won’t work in the always-online era.

Making the Shift to Digital Sales in B2B

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 24, 2020

A new, digital era of B2B sales and marketing is upon us. It’s driven by corporate customer demand for online access to their suppliers’ offerings and expertise

“The sensitivity analysis is based on the assumption of a quick recovery, but what if the expected economic recovery takes longer than anticipated?”

Business groups clash over EU’s 2030 climate goal

By: EBR | Monday, November 23, 2020

Europe’s largest employer’s association, BusinessEurope, has questioned “the value and credibility” of the economic analysis underpinning the EU’s proposed climate target plan for 2030, triggering an immediate backlash from pro-climate corporate groups

Success in this new era of accelerated disruption requires a holistic approach to technology.

Four Steps to Business Model Innovation

By: EBR | Thursday, November 19, 2020

In the current era of disruption, recently accelerated by the pandemic, firms must be in command of cutting-edge technologies; otherwise, they face potentially mortal danger

"The next COO at your company will work remotely, stay with the company for six months, and never even get a company email account. But they will be the best hire you’ve ever made."

4 things that will redefine the way we work by 2025

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Where previous calendars measured time according to Before Christ and Anno Domini, the coronavirus outbreak has revealed a new sense of time. This is the beginning of a new epoch

If we want a robust economic recovery and a fairer world, we must stem the tide of women fleeing the Covid-19 workforce.

Foundations for Gender Balance Can Be Built at Home

By: EBR | Friday, November 13, 2020

In the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, concerned observers warned that although the physical toll of the virus on men is higher, women would suffer more social and economic devastation

"Knowing and understanding what is happening in our brain and in the person with whom we interact is an essential prerequisite for training empathy and expressing it also within business realities."

Why empathy is good for business – and how to improve it

By: EBR | Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Empathy, defined as the ability to detect other people’s feelings, constitutes the basis for quality human relationships; however, it is often a capacity we are unable to exploit, mostly due to cultural constraints

For real estate affordability, liveability and resilience, investing in ESG is a ‘trade-on’ – not a ‘trade-off’- Ahmed Galal Ismail, Chief Executive, Majid Al Futtaim – Properties.

Here’s why the business of sustainability has come of age

By: EBR | Thursday, November 5, 2020

With a sharper corporate focus on achieving Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) impact, the appetite for investments that address some of the world’s most pressing challenges has grown steadily in recent years

"While Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies driven by AI will continue to fundamentally change the world and the way we work and live, AI may not lead to massive unemployment. Instead, AI technology will create more jobs than it automates."

Don’t fear AI. It will lead to long-term job growth

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 27, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated technological advances and the automation of many routine tasks – from contactless cashiers to robots delivering packages

“The productivity metric is proving that remote work is working.”

The number of permanent remote workers is set to double in 2021

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 27, 2020

The percentage of workers around the world that is permanently working from home is expected to double in 2021 as productivity has increased during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey from U.S.-based Enterprise Technology Research (ETR)

Advice from academics and practitioners who are well-versed in the remote working paradigm.

How Ready Are You for the Work-from-Anywhere Era?

By: EBR | Monday, October 26, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has hurled life and work as we once knew it into a state of near-paralysing uncertainty

The rise of AI in the workplace has the potential to improve some aspects of work – such as repetitive and dangerous tasks – but much of the public discussion has focused on AI’s potential to displace workers and the grave impacts this could pose to their livelihoods and quality of life.

How AI can train workers for the jobs of the future

By: EBR | Friday, October 23, 2020

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the world of work at a rapid pace, and its impact is poised to accelerate even more in the decades ahead

Fifty percent of US workers consider themselves disengaged at work. And one in eight workers is so disaffected by how they’re treated on the job that they actively work against the interest of their companies.

Why employers must learn to value their talent

By: EBR | Thursday, October 22, 2020

More than 10% of US workers deliberately act against their company’s interests

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EU Actually

Far-left and far-right gains throw French mainstream parties into a quandary

By: N. Peter Kramer

In many big towns and cities, Socialists and centre-right Republicans are tempted to make electoral pacts on their outside flanks to beat the opposition in next Sunday’s run off of the French mayoral elections.

Europe

EU and the Arab Gulf Must Come Together

The war in Iran proves the United States is now a destabilizing actor for Europe and the Arab Gulf. From protect their economies and energy supplies to safeguarding their territorial integrity, both regions have much to gain from forming a new kind of partnership together.

Business

EU risks losing US soy imports under deforestation rules, Washington warns

The regulation would make the bloc less attractive for American exporters, a senior USDA official said