What will the world look like after the pandemic? The question, increasingly, is no longer whether we will return to normal after the pandemic, but whether we really want to return to normal. Labor, the environment, the economy, education and healthcare are just five examples of things that should change after this crisis. Are we really sure […]
Leadership in the 21st century will be influenced by constant change. Next-generation leadership will have to deal effectively with multiple demanding global challenges spanning from geopolitical volatility, technological disruptions, economic and political uncertainty, the rise of new challengers like China, and shifting demographics to name a few. On top of an already challenging world comes […]
Amidst the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, our way of life has changed drastically. How can we tell places you visit or people you meet are COVID free? How will companies protect their employees and create a safe workplace? Igenomix, a Spanish reproductive and fertility bio-tech company, has been working on COVID-19 testing for private usage, by […]
The coronavirus was a "black swan" event that upended economies and markets across the world. Why did it cause so much disruption, and how will we ultimately be affected? As the COVID-19 crisis proceeds, all analysis in health, politics, and economics is focused on how broad the spread will be and how long it […]
What started as a health crisis has morphed into an economic crisis. Navigating a state of emergency, business leaders are challenged daily to attend to the needs of multiple stakeholders. Initial imperatives of ensuring employee safety, and enabling operational continuity, have been joined by concerns over supply chain integrity and changing modes of customer engagement. As budgets bend and forecast fracture, financial risk is […]
2020 will be remembered as the biggest remote working experiment in the history of mankind. With almost a third of the world’s population locked down, businesses and industries are trying to face this new reality asking their employees to work from home. Just as an example, Zoom is now worth more than the sum of […]
The future brings to us challenges of diverse types beyond the economic reconstruction needed after the coronavirus. How do we envision a new globalisation? How do we build a more sustainable world? How do we leverage from the disruption produced by new technologies? How do we design a new social contract? On 17 June our Corporate member IE University organizes in collaboration […]
Before COVID-19, Spain was the 2nd most visited country in the world with over 83 million tourists arriving per year, this number is almost twice the country’s population. Japan was also experiencing two-digit annual growth rate in terms of visitors in the recent years and was expecting to break records with the Tokyo Olympics. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has changed the outlook […]
Continuing with the Online CEO Round Table, this time we are inviting five Spanish Executives from 5 top European auto parts makers. With most of the companies in Japan returning to their workplaces, this session will be focused on the so-called “New Normal” in the automotive industry and we will be discussing about HR, Office Administration, customer relations, supply chain and more.
On 8 July our Corporate member IE University organizes in collaboration with the Spanish Chambers of Commerce Network in Asia, an online seminar inviting Paolo Giancane, who teaches executive programs for IE School of Architecture and is responsible for a course on blockchain and cryptocurrencies at IE University in Madrid. Raising Private Capital in a COVID-19 World: Outlook for PE and VC Even before the global health emergency was declared in late January, private equity funding had started to cool and investors were already losing their appetite for money-losing companies. Then, the global outbreak shocked the world leaving […]
One of the major revolutions in the media industry was the irruption of computer and internet. Development of search engines along with the emergence of the social media and the arrival of the smartphones brought new disruptions and pushed the industry to evolve. And now, digital marketing is entering a new era with the appearance […]
On 29 July our Corporate member IE University organizes in collaboration with the Spanish Chambers of Commerce network in Asia, an online seminar inviting Joe Haslam, the Executive Director of the Owners Scale-up Program at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. SaaS Up Your SME Why did Unilever Buy Dollar Shave Club for $1 Billion? How did Peloton raise $1.2 billion in […]