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73% of investors believe that a company’s social and environmental efforts contribute to returns.

Businesses with a clear purpose do better while also protecting people and planet. Here’s how

By: EBR | Thursday, November 3, 2022

Companies with a clear purpose are more likely to inspire trust

After completing the programme, YGLs join the Alumni Community, where they can continue their leadership journey. These leaders serve as stewards of the community, helping select new members and mentoring them.

How can young leaders make an impact within their communities? 4 views

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 25, 2022

The alumni from the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders (YGL) programme convened in Geneva, Switzerland

For some, the idea is uncomfortable and stressful. For others, like younger people and staffers at companies that already practice pay transparency, it might feel like a natural step toward a more just workplace.

Here’s how pay transparency affects the workplace

By: EBR | Thursday, July 21, 2022

Transparency over wages helps make pay fairer as it creates pressure to close salary gaps between genders and peers, a new study shows

«Resilience is a critical pillar of future long-term value creation and a business imperative that can no longer be ignored.»

How can organizations accelerate their resilience journey?

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 20, 2022

The global risk landscape is more complex and unpredictable than ever

Two experts outline four steps to tackle this preparedness paradox, using their own experience of the COVID-19 pandemic.

4 steps to help overcome the paradox of preparedness

By: EBR | Thursday, July 14, 2022

When major threats are looming, but their timing is uncertain, it’s hard for business leaders to make an action plan for dealing with them

"As frightening as it seems, uncertainty can bring new opportunities when we learn to navigate it well".

Can We Get Better at Navigating Uncertainty?

By: EBR | Wednesday, July 13, 2022

What innovators have learned that allows them to face the uncertainty of new pursuits

There are five key challenges with hybrid work arrangements in any industry: communication, coordination, connection, creativity, and culture.

5 ways to make hybrid working work

By: EBR | Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Business leaders need to first understand these issues, then follow four steps to find solutions: evaluate, analyze, plan and implement

Three stories of professionals who bucked the trend and found greater meaning in their work life.

How to Find Fulfilment by Taking a Step Down

By: EBR | Tuesday, June 28, 2022

We encounter stories of the great resignation daily. The pandemic has turned the world on its head in many ways, and the possibility to move away from a job that is no longer satisfying towards something more meaningful is tempting for many

Global survey from McKinsey Health Institute explores the disconnect between employer efforts and rising employee mental health and wellbeing challenges across the globe.

Addressing employee burnout: Are you solving the right problem?

By: EBR | Thursday, June 16, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated and exacerbated long-standing corporate challenges to employee health and well-being, and in particular employee mental health

Indecisiveness can hinder our ability to pursue our goals.

Do decisive people make better decisions?

By: EBR | Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Decisive people may be more confident in the choices they make, but they are no better at making decisions than other people, according to new research

Leaders inspire and bring others with them.

Business leadership during crisis: Here’s how to succeed

By: EBR | Monday, June 6, 2022

In an increasingly uncertain world, leaders have to learn how to navigate simultaneous crises

A less radical solution is to reframe teams as “co-acting groups.” As we’ve stated in past research, true teams have a shared mindset, a compelling joint mission, defined roles, stable membership, high interdependence and clear norms.

Has Hybridity Killed Teamwork?

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Most white-collar employees have spent the bulk of their career working in teams. However, the rise of hybridity is changing work paradigms in ways that make us wonder whether we still need teams

Leaders must carry voices of hope through times of adversity.

Why all leaders must centre ‘hope’ in crisis messaging

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 25, 2022

The last few years have placed the global community under collective challenges through which solid examples of leadership have emerged

A fresh take on the classic theme of generic business strategies.

Strategies to Overcome Competitive Pressures: “Making” vs. “Milking”

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Business strategy is fundamentally about allocating scarce resources to create the greatest impact on organisational performance. As a strategist, you will often be confronted with two broad innovation strategies: “making” and “milking”

We instinctively see people with stronger self-control as more virtuous and more capable of realising good intentions.

Not All Heroes Wear Capes. They May Just Have More Willpower

By: EBR | Monday, May 16, 2022

Just as good intentions mean little without the ability to realise them, all the impressive organisational capabilities in the world may generate little public goodwill unless they are thought to be deployed in the service of noble intentions

Studies show that most job candidates, especially younger ones, trust AI in recruiting and have a high opinion of firms that use it.

How Can Managers Use AI to Find the Right People?

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Eight recommendations to help firms win the war for talent

Now more than ever, as we face a climate crisis and mass inequality, the world needs thoughtful leaders that can bridge divides.

3 leadership practices for social cohesion in a divided world

By: EBR | Thursday, April 21, 2022

Leaders’ values and behaviours serve as a template for a society’s interactions. As the world recovers from a period of prolonged social isolation, key leadership behaviours are increasingly important in promoting mutual understanding and cooperation

Shell’s directors are the first to face legal action for mismanaging climate risk.

Climate Change Gets Up Close and Personal for Board Members

By: EBR | Tuesday, April 12, 2022

In the spring of 2022, while war raged once again in Europe, a momentous event in business history passed most people by

“Wait, there’s so much more to learn and to discover. You are far away from being the one you could be.”

6 lessons on how to lead in times of uncertainty

By: EBR | Monday, April 11, 2022

In what feels like an everchanging environment, it can be difficult for leaders to find the path forward or plan beyond the immediate

Work rituals - even seemingly silly ones - help employees bond and make them go the extra mile for their company, according to new research.

Here’s why workplace rituals are key to happy - and productive - companies

By: EBR | Monday, April 4, 2022

Love them or hate them, team-building rituals can fortify bonds among coworkers and create the shared sense that work is more meaningful, which may be especially critical now as managers look to reconnect colleagues re-adjusting to work life after two years of COVID-19 upheaval

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EU Actually

European Parliament challenges member-states with an additional budget increase of 10 percent

By: N. Peter Kramer

In his weekly column, N. Peter Kramer writes how the EP opposes Commission’s proposal to cut back on traditional programmes such as agriculture and cohesion

Europe

The EU–India Deal Is Done. Africa Must Be Next

The EU-India FTA deal showed Brussels can move when the stakes are high; Africa is the real test of whether Europe can protect its economic security in a more fractured world.

Business

Where Romania can build excellence: the sources of future competitiveness

Romania has been, for most of its recent history, a story of potential deferred. The standard account of Romanian competitiveness, to the extent one exists in international business literature, is a cost story: cheap labor, low corporate taxes, a large domestic market for Central and Eastern European standards.