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In an era of volcanic Twitter accounts, devastating disruptions, seismic shifts towards de-globalisation and widespread corporate uncertainty, is your organisation trapped in fear or are you pulling the future towards you? In short, are you ”forwarding” your business?

What Really Matters for Your Business Is Forwardship

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Leadership failures are often characterised by a lack of action or a knee-jerk reaction to disruptions

Today, we define management as the process of dealing with or controlling things or people. And if this is not a red flag to a CEO running anything other than a widget factory, I don’t know what is. Controlling things no longer appears plausible, and controlling people is downright counterproductive. Steve Jobs hit the nail on the head when he said: “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”

Is the age of management over?

By: EBR | Friday, December 15, 2017

"The key to management is to get rid of the managers," advised Ricardo Semler, whose TED Talk went viral, introducing terms such as “industrial democracy” and “corporate re-engineering”

Social skills are important in the modern labor market because computers are still very poor at simulating human interaction. Skill in social settings has evolved in humans over thousands of years. Human interaction in the workplace involves team production, with workers playing off of each other’s strengths and adapting flexibly to changing circumstances. Such non-routine interaction is at the heart of the human advantage over machines. The growing importance of social skills can potentially explain a number of other trends in educational outcomes and the labor market, such as the narrowing – and in some cases reversal – of gender gaps in completed education and earnings.

The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market

By: EBR | Friday, December 8, 2017

Labor market rewards to performing routine tasks have fallen, while the returns to workers’ ability to cooperate and adapt to changing circumstances have risen

Known for glazing in windows with high insulating properties, the sector is now extending into new territory. The innovation is called “smart-tinting glass”, to be placed into the global marketplace by early 2018, is not just glass, it is a system for the management of natural light that transitions from clear to dark in less than 3 minutes. Offering sun blocking, anti-glare protection and near privacy, this smart-tinting system makes of the building’s occupants wish it’s command.

Innovation is called “smart-tinting glass”

By: EBR | Monday, December 4, 2017

Glass unlimited, used to be AGC’s tagline. What seemed to be a material producer’s wish has become plain reality

“A great entrepreneur is optimistic for the future and asks what problem you can solve, and how you can solve it different from the others, better than the others,” he continued.

Jack Ma warns against the one mistake that can destroy start-ups

By: EBR | Friday, December 1, 2017

Jack Ma is a global icon in business, ranked second on Fortune’s list of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders and one of the richest men in China, with a personal fortune of nearly $30 billion, according to Forbes

Well-intentioned policymakers believed that the benefits and costs of free market policies would be shared equally. That belief was wrong because it elided the fact that many people own little more than their skills and their time, and the free market doesn’t guarantee a use for them.

Capitalism is losing support. It is time for a new deal

By: EBR | Friday, November 24, 2017

The financial crisis has led many to question the legitimacy of capitalism

Overseeing the preparation of 180,000 meals each day is a team of five executive chefs and sous chefs. During peak periods such as the summer this figure rockets, with the 2017 record in July when 220,000 meals were processed in a 24-hour period. Like everything else at the Emirates Flight Catering Centre (EKFC), this is undertaken with military-style precision.The airline boasts a global spread of destinations and also sources ingredients used in its dishes from around the globe. There’s bananas from the Philippines, lamb sourced from New Zealand, vegetables from the Middle East and locally-sourced meat. Oh, and not forgetting (still popular) baked beans from the UK.

Top airline expands service from Brussels - and flies the flag for onboard cuisine

By: EBR | Monday, October 23, 2017

Leading airline Emirates is doing best to dispel traditional myths about onboard food with an innovative and inventive approach to eating at 34,000ft

So far this year, 46 global technology companies have reached unicorn status, according to research from CB Insights. Of those, China has produced 17 – only slightly fewer than the 19 created in the US.

This map will change how you see the world’s tech titans

By: EBR | Friday, October 20, 2017

Chinese unicorns are on the rise

The BitLocation system facilitates retail trading by providing real-time market values and, critically, eliminating the need for each retailer to maintain its own cryptocurrency inventory. Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile, meaning that maintaining inventory can quickly generate significant gains, but also losses. BitLocation will shield its retail partners from such risks.

BitLocation in talks to bring Bitcoin Trading to the High Street

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 10, 2017

BitLocation declines to name the UK firm, but describes it as one of the top-five FX retail groups and one of two in the UK it has had contacts with in recent weeks

Countries that want to achieve sustainable growth must cater for diverse forms of work and consider the rights of all workers. Our policy-makers need social innovations to fully embrace the idea of flexibility and social protection – “flexicurity” – by giving all workers the same rights and benefits, regardless of what contract they have.

3 ways the future of work can be fair as well as flexible

By: EBR | Friday, October 6, 2017

Setting the right course for labour policy in today’s rapidly evolving world of work is a complex challenge. Trends such as skills imbalances, the gig economy and digitization are transforming work so quickly that policy creation is lagging behind

A social business is a business that can create an impact on people, environment, employment and make reasonable profits that are invested back in the company. But a social business never remains a social business forever. Today, sanitation is a social business in India, but when the problem of open defecation will be solved and satisfactory sanitation facilities will be built, it will become a commercial business.

Rajeev Kher: ‘A social business does not remain a social business forever’

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Social businesses are supposed to address social and environmental issues. But when the social issue is resolved, the social business becomes a business like any other, according to Indian social entrepreneur Rajeev Kher

Social Media and SMEs

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Social media refers to online services that support social interactions among social media users through highly accessible and scalable web-based publishing techniques (Dutta, 2010), in order to co-create, find, share and evaluate the online information repository

The complete table can be found on pp. 11-16 of our paper. It enables firms and executives from any of the 61 economies covered to assess the magnitude of the challenges of operating in any of the other 60 economies – for instance, France is most similar to Italy, Switzerland to Denmark, and the United States to Australia. The text of our paper can then be used to gain a fuller understanding of what drives these differences.

The nine major ways of doing business in the world

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 13, 2017

A new measure for gauging and understanding the challenge of business abroad

What about younger customers who tend to think of Sberbank as a boring place where their grandparents go to open savings accounts and pay their bills? Russia now has a few branch-less banks targeting digital natives and Sberbank needs to change its image as a traditional bank in the eyes of this customer group.

Digitally enabling customer loyalty

By: EBR | Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Empowering the front lines with digital tools enables organisations to capture the hearts of diverse consumer groups

Business can help create a more collaborative and inclusive society, but first this needs to change

By: EBR | Friday, August 25, 2017

Cambridge – On whose behalf do business associations speak? Well, business. But who is “business”?

The Rise of Digital Workers

By: EBR | Friday, August 18, 2017

As more digital freelancers find work through online labor platforms, taxing their income will become increasingly difficult

Trust in the age of AI: We need cybersecurity by design

By: EBR | Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making speedy progress in acquiring skills that were previously regarded as exclusively human

Although it may sound ominous, a dark pool is a legal mechanism typically used by large traders. It is an automated trading system that doesn’t display orders to the public; a consolidated tape of trade execution details is released at a later point. Available shares are deliberately not advertised; buyers are matched via automated systems only when sellers are present. Prices are gleaned from the lit market. But some dark pools offer varying degrees of pricing to the publicly quoted prices on public equity exchanges.

The dark and the darker sides of the market

By: EBR | Friday, August 4, 2017

Total transparency in financial trading can be costly

Given the great diversity of stakeholders’ interests, be they governments, advocacy groups, industry associations, think tanks or community organizations, a bespoke strategy for engaging with each group is required. To communicate its narrative, a corporation must take every opportunity to regularly check in with its constituents, to be present in relevant conversations and to join and actively participate in germane initiatives.

We’re losing trust in business. How can we get it back?

By: EBR | Friday, July 28, 2017

Business is “on the brink of distrust”, declared Edelman’s Barometer earlier this year.

The One Belt One Road project already has $1 trillion of projects underway, including major infrastructure works in Africa and Central Asia. Ahead of the Beijing summit earlier this month, the China Development Bank had set aside almost $900 billion alone for more than 900 projects. China’s Big Four state-owned banks extended an estimated $90 billion in loans to the economies related to the initiative last year alone.

China’s $900 billion New Silk Road. What you need to know

By: EBR | Friday, June 30, 2017

You’ve probably heard of the Silk Road, the ancient trade route that once ran between China and the West during the days of the Roman Empire. It’s how oriental silk first made it to Europe. It’s also the reason China is no stranger to carrots

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A mission impossible for Sébastien Lecornu, Macron’s 5th Prime Minister?

By: N. Peter Kramer

President Emmanuel Macron has again named a close ally, Sébastien Lecornu, as the new French prime minister, 24 hours after a vote of confidence ousted François Bayrou.

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France in fresh political crisis after MPs oust prime minister

France has been plunged into a new political crisis with the defeat of Prime Minister François Bayrou at a confidence vote in the National Assembly

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