Putin’s Russia: An Exemplary Case of Hyper-Extractive State
By Alexander Etkind
Due to Russia’s geographic scale and military might, it amplifies typical problems of many petrostates from Venezuela to Nigeria to Iran....
Natural Disasters, Bank Damages, and Firm Activities
By Kaoru Hosono and Daisuke Miyakawa Below Kaoru Hosono and Daisuke Miyakawa examine the impacts of financial shocks arising from two earthquakes in
How Asia Works: Finance – The Merits of A Short Leash
By Joe Studwell
Deregulating finance for short-term gains may work in developed Western economies, and even then only at times, but premature deregulation has wreaked...
360 Degrees of Leadership
Interview with Deborah Winslow Nutter
In today’s increasingly interconnected world, the lines dividing business, politics, security, trade and finance are becoming ever more blurred....
Dubai Investments Park: Setting New Benchmarks in Sustainability
Dubai Investments Park DIP, the largest integrated commercial, industrial and residential community in the Middle East
Putting Executive Pay in Context
By David De Cremer
Before the financial crisis executive pay in the finance sector had skyrocketed; bonuses were no longer given to reward hard and...
The Wind of Change Must Blow Waste Further up the Agenda
By Jonas Törnblom
Climate change, a shrinking planet and the increasing threat of weather-related disasters are problems that are not going away, but we still...
How Will China Rebalance?
By Michael Pettis
China urgently needs to rebalance its economy, but how it chooses to do so should not be constrained by undue focus on...
ExecuJet: Taking off in Africa
Interview with Chris Frost
While road and rail links in many areas of Africa remain underdeveloped, the business aviation industry is taking off. Here we...
Lions Go Global
By Susan Lund And James Manyika
Imagine a room containing the US President and Vice President and former President Bill Clinton, nearly 40 African heads...
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...
