Change may be difficult, but inertia can prove truly damaging, particularly from a business point of view. In the corporate world, standing still is the same as going backwards. However, once a market ...

After more than a century of male leadership, car manufacturing giant General Motors became embroiled in a scandal as it emerged a design flaw was putting its customers at risk. In 2014 – in the ...

Paul Polman took the reins at Unilever during one of the most precarious periods in the company’s 150-year history. It was during the aftermath of the financial crisis that the Dutch businessman ...

With organisations to run and big orders to fill, it’s easy to see how some CEOs inadvertently sacrifice quality for quantity. By integrating a system of total quality management it’s possible to have ...

Management theory is a default aspect of modern business, but this hasn’t always been the case. From structure to philosophy, contemporary organisations owe a lot to one man Peter Drucker, widely ...

The publication of the EU’s long-awaited draft corporate sustainability and due diligence directive in February 2022 marked an important milestone of the emergence of mandatory human rights due ...

This year, one of Britain’s most controversial cultural institutions, the Saatchi Gallery, celebrates its 30th anniversary. Laura French looks at how the mastermind behind it has shaped advertising ...

As baseball great Yogi Berra once said, “The problem with the future is that it ain’t what it used to be.” And the future world of the CEO will be very different from the one in which most CEOs have ...

Businesses currently lack the tools and motivation to create gender-equal workplaces. Equality Check, a platform that aims to boost transparency around unconscious gender bias, will help kick-start a ...

We celebrate leading players across a range of sectors in the European CEO Awards 2024. With voting ongoing, we invite readers to nominate who you think should be recognised for setting the standard ...

The MBA is a western invention. Today, however, business schools in Asia are attracting more applicants than their American and European counterparts The European CEO awards 2023 have now been ...

In a recent survey, the global employment website Monster found that 20 percent of employees had left a job because of a workplace rivalry. Nonetheless, a growing body of evidence suggests adversaries ...