Frontier Markets: Old Acquaintances, New Opportunities

By Tomás Guerrero The emergence of frontier markets is consolidating South-South relations and speeding up the global economic rebalance. Below, Tomás Guerrero describes how, to...

The Impact of Law and Corruption on Venture Capital and Private Equity Fees and...

By Douglas Cumming, Grant Fleming, Sofia Johan & Dorra Najar This article summarises recent research on the role of law, culture and corruption on venture...

The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the 21st Century

By Jay W. Lorsch Predicting the challenges boards will face in the years ahead requires an understanding of how they and the governance they have...

Youth Unemployment after the Financial Crisis: ‘Quo Vadimus’?

By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, & Jorgo Chatzimarkakis The financial crisis has damaged national economies but also hurt segments of societies, including youths aged 15...

The ICBC Path to Chinese Governance: Lessons for the Western and Emerging Markets

By Didier Cossin & Abraham Lu Since its dual IPOs in 2007, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC), one of the largest...

The Social Theory of Contemporary Capitalism

By Partha Chatterjee The sociology of capitalism developed by Max Weber and its critique developed by Marxists are unable to account for the transformed structure...

Smaller Cities Embrace Smart Specialisation – The Exeter Success Story

By Richard Ball Governments have recognised that cities are engines of growth critical to economic performance and national recovery in the current climate. The large...

Environmental Governance for Sustainable Development: An East Asian Perspective

By Akihisa Mori Despite democratisation and foreign assistance, many East Asian nations are stuck in the mud in terms of developing domestic environmental governance. Their...

Eastern and Western Ideas for African Growth: Diversity and Complementarity in Development Aid

By Izumi Ohno & Kenichi Ohno The West and the East approach economic development differently. The Europeans and Americans stress free and fair business climate,...

Wise up to Water Risks at the 2013 World Water Week in Stockholm

By Josh Weinberg & Maya Rebermark, Communications, SIWI Hydrologists like to call water the ‘bloodstream of the planet’. But it is much more than that....

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CFO's new mandate. CFO explaining the presentation

The Performance and Transformation Orchestrator: The CFO’s New Mandate in the Age of AI

By Terence Tse CFOs are evolving into AI-driven transformation orchestrators, balancing finance, technology, and strategy while upskilling teams, managing risks, and driving measurable business value. A key insight from this year’s AI for CFOs event, organized...

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