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Five themes from our Decision Making: Act or Process event with Dr John McCormack

Regardless of the industry you work in, the size of your organisation or how senior your role, the chances are that you are responsible for making decisions almost every day, in both your professional and personal life. Whether we are aware of it or not, decision-making takes up a large proportion of our time and

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Climate action, international trade and government procurement

At COP28 much was made of the first explicit reference to a transition away from all fossil fuels in energy systems. But the conference achieved other significant firsts that have received far less fanfare, says Sandra Hamilton. Long overlooked by climate policymakers it was encouraging to see for the first time international trade, and the

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The power of lending relationships in syndicated loans

Syndicated loans are among the most important external financing sources for firms all over the world. To give a sense of scale, according to Thomson Reuters DealScan, the annual average proceeds from syndicated loan issuances were approximately $2 trillion from 2005 to 2022. Such loans are much larger than corporate bond issuances and several times

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Pressing Challenges

The true value of the foundational economy is not realised. The rapid advancement of automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and data science has led to widespread discussion about what the future world of work will look like. However, while job displacement and retraining are issues that leaders need to have in mind, this kind of crystal

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Slowbalisation

Multinationals are starting to think very differently about how they do business Against the backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions, increased economic nationalism, and wider consumer dissatisfaction with capitalism, these are challenging times for multinationals and the global economic model. At the same time, multinationals are fundamentally dealing with three sets of problems. Two of these

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A journey following the growth footsteps of knowledge-intensive firms

Knowledge-intensive startups are well known to be a source of novel technological innovations and economic growth. Yet, such startups face significant challenges when trying to grow and become large global technological leaders and many of them fail. In this podcast, Niron Hashai, visiting Professor of International Business at Alliance MBS, goes over 20 years of his

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