Building infrastructure is a game for giants. Keeping it running, especially the clean-energy grid, is where nimble start-ups now break in. As anyone who has driven over...
Tag - Business & Investment
Where capital is moving and why
Nadya Zhexembayeva began discussing the need for Chief Reinvention Officers in 2015. A decade on, reinvention is more relevant than ever. Nadya Zhexembayeva was 14 when...
The Last Word: The hard test for companies is finding out whether or not they’re willing to stop pretending while they still have a choice. This week, I read a post...
Investment funds launch all the time with much fanfare and almost no money behind them. A few pull it off, the rest simply run out of road. I’ve never met Sabrina...
Each of the six Western Balkan economies has found its own tech and innovation niche, and together they add up to far more than the parts. Branko Milutinović and a...
Too many states greet every unicorn as a national triumph. However, the louder a country cheers a start-up, the smaller it starts to sound. There’s no doubt that...
From catching up to shaping Europe: Five strategic resets, and a 5C Framework for winning the Second Age of Leadership in emerging Europe. For thirty years, Central and...
Romania’s stock market is small, unfashionable and, over the past decade, the best-performing in the world. Almost no Romanians own a share. There is, of course...
A brutal July sell-off in AI chip shares has caught out many retail investors. Whether prices return to their highs is the loudest question. Mark Zuckerberg did not buy...
A struggling firm reaches for artificial intelligence as it once reached for innovation. Neither saves a business the sums no longer favour. Lip-Bu Tan took charge of...
The Last Word: One more client might buy some time, one more initiative may create some new energy, but neither is enough to save a company. Ask IT companies what is...
A court has freed Marine Le Pen to seek the French presidency. A victory would let a founding member corrode the European Union from within. A news cycle focused on the...