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Three lessons leaders can learn from Don Quixote about strategizing
The Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes penned Don Quixote in the early 1600s. He could have little imagined how relevant its lessons would remain today, in an age of big data and machines. Yet the…
The luck bluff
In his 2005 bestselling book, Blink, Canadian journalist Malcolm Gladwell noted a seemingly bizarre fact about his work with Fortune 500 leaders. “In the U.S. population, about 14.5 percent of all…
The data duels of decision making
You are teaching students about decision science to affect leadership decisions. How well has it been received? The research on decision science has become more and more popular. We have learned that…
Russia in Europe: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Today would have been the 90th birthday of Hans Dietrich Genscher – a remarkable German political figure and a truly wonderful human being. It is in large part thanks to him that I am a free man and…
Vodafone in Egypt
Since December 2010, we have witnessed a social media as well as a political revolution across North Africa and the Middle East. Although it was the brave citizens of these countries that took to the…
Women access treatment for symptomatic diseases later than men in developing countries
A major consequence of gender-based health inequalities in the developing world is excess female mortality, as captured by low ratios of females to males, notably in India and China. In India, unlike…
Patent thickets and the commercialization of new technologies
It was a transaction that made headlines not only in the business press but in news outlets around the world: Google acquired Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in a deal closed in May 2012. Less…
The challenge of establishing the ECB as the regulator of European banks
Supporters see it as an effective way to take control of the systemic consequences of sovereign and bank debt; opponents warn of an extensive collectivization of risks at the expense of taxpayers and…
Developing hardware the software way
Imagine if somebody asked you: Is it possible for a software developer with no automotive experience to design and build a revolutionary and roadworthy prototype for a car in just three months? And…
The secret to successful open innovation initiatives
A new study by Linus Dahlander, associate professor and KPMG Chair in Innovation at ESMT, co-authored with Henning Piezunka, a PhD candidate at Stanford University, finds that organizations that…