North Rhine-Westphalia: First choice for foreign investors in Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's economically strongest federal state, has proven to be a particularly attractive investment location for foreign companies in Germany and Europe for...
Immigration Policy and Executive Power at Loose Ends: The Case of the US1
By Philip Kretsedemas
The discretionary powers of the US Presidency have steadily expanded over the course of the 20th century. These powers are especially pertinent...
Welcome to the Post-American World: Barack Obama, US Foreign Policy and the 2012 Election
By Robert Singh
Obama set himself the task of managing America’s decline while retaining primacy in the international order. Yet his substantive achievements have been...
99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We...
By Chuck Collins
At the root of social movements around the world is the emergence, in the last three decades, of extreme inequalities of income,...
The Trend of History is Bigger than the Business Cycle
By Philip Auerswald
In March, 2009, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman posted to his blog a chart of US industrial production in 1929 and 1930 (the...
Leadership, Power and Contextual Intelligence
By Joseph S. Nye
Understanding of leadership is often limited by stereotypes about power, role and gender. In an information age where networks become more...
Exercise 24: Using Social Media for Crisis Response
By George H. Bressler, Murray E. Jennex & Eric G. Frost
Can populations self-organize a crisis response? This is a field report on the first...
The China Model: a Civilizational-State Perspective
By Zhang Weiwei
China’s dramatic rise should be understood in the context of China as a civilizational state, i.e. an amalgam of the world’s oldest...
Does China Want to Buy Up Europe? Europe’s Crisis and China’s Reluctant Rise
By Roland Benedikter and Jae-Seung Lee
In the occasion of Germany’s Angela Merkel’s visit to China on 3rd February 2012, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao stated...
Italy: A Consumer Story
By Emanuela Scarpellini
Can we go on consuming as we do today, perhaps even more so? Would it not be better to devise a consumer...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
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...
