Plenty of shoppers say they prefer sustainable products over ordinary ones. Yet for consumer product companies, tapping into this green demand can prove tricky. One challenge: establishing that ...

From the start of the postwar era to March 2020, boards judged business leaders’ effectiveness primarily by their ability to maximize efficiency and deliver steady performance. Financial outcomes and ...

Years before the term metaverse was popularized by Mark Zuckerberg’s rebranding of Facebook to Meta in late 2021, Matthew Ball published a series of essays on what the metaverse is all about—and what ...

Digitally enabled ecosystems are a vital part of the modern business landscape. They open the door to new customers and markets, and broaden and enhance a firm’s value proposition through the seamless ...

Europe’s leading companies now have proportionately more CDOs (42%) than North America’s (38%), driven by appointments in the UK, Switzerland, and Germany. We believe this is likely due to Europe’s ...

What do younger workers want today? According to PwC’s Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey 2022, their biggest priorities are training, development, flexibility, autonomy, and transparency on ...

A version of this article appeared in the Spring 2022 issue of strategy+business. Ahmed Galal Ismail was impressed by the level of employee engagement in Majid al Futtaim Properties, the owner of the ...

Canadian economist Mark Carney has been on the front line of each of the major economic shocks of the past 20 years: credit crisis, climate change, and COVID-19. As governor of the Bank of Canada from ...

Those working from home are also more likely to shop sustainably. More than half (56%) of those surveyed who work from home say they’ve become more eco-friendly, compared with 48% of those who work ...

A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2021 issue of strategy+business. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just take a simplicity vaccine that would immunize us from the chaos in our world?

A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of strategy+business. Niki Leondakis, a veteran hotel-industry CEO, started managing people in college when she was promoted from waiter to ...

Companies and their CEOs had to pivot almost overnight in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Businesses had to go virtual to keep their operations running, and that meant going digital. This quickly ...