Innholdsfortegnelse for November/December 2021 i The European Business Review

Intelligent technologies are dramatically transforming modern societies. The potential economic and social benefits of these technologies seem unprecedented. Intelligent technologies are therefore increasingly being involved in a variety of decision-making contexts, as such influencing a wide variety of outcomes that are important to human end-users. This reality means that intelligent technologies will and have to be used for good so they do not endanger the stability of our social fabric and the sanctity of our human autonomy. Despite the increasing awareness that a human-centred approach to the adoption and employment of intelligent technologies is needed, concerns about the potential risks and harms that these technologies can bring to humanity are nevertheless growing. In fact, this observation makes us realize that the obsessive search for technological solutions striving to optimize efficiency…

Thank you for sharing your time with us, Ms Colvano! Can we begin with a few words on what initially drew you into executive search? Like many others who have built a career in executive search, I stumbled into this industry. After interning at Daversa during university, I realized this was a unique opportunity to combine my desire to be in business, passion for emerging technologies, and my curiosity and passion for people. Over time, the visibility of my own impact and challenge of the rigour required to be successful really made this industry one I knew I would go on to build my career in. Founded in 1993, Daversa Partners has established itself as a household name in executive search. What’s it like working for a company that is…

Renowned leadership expert John C. Maxwell (2007) is often quoted saying “Everything rises and falls on leadership.” This quote underscores the importance of leadership to making organizations, teams and employees perform well. It is then also no surprise that being a leader comes with a certain level of admiration and prestige. Another insight that has arisen in the last few decades is that achieving leadership positions in organizations is affected by a subtle gender bias. Surveys have revealed that despite the fact that in the US women earn more than 57 percent of undergraduate degrees and 59 percent of all master’s degrees, the reality nevertheless is that only 28 percent of CEOs are women (Hincliffe, 2020). These numbers show that a problem exists when it comes down to women’s mobility…

Milan Prilepok is Partner and Global Leader of the Negotiation Service Line at McKinsey. He provides coaching on negotiations strategy to a wide range of clients from C-suite executives and board directors to procurement professionals, sales executives, chief counsels, and more. Milan is a former lecturer at The Wharton School and has taught at industry conferences and roundtables on negotiations at Harvard Business School, London School of Economics, Women in Negotiations (WIN), and the Conference Board, among others. He has delivered negotiation workshops to more than 16,000 participants across 270 companies in 35+ countries around the world. Milan has an MBA from the London Business School.…

Jacques Bughin is a professor of Management, Chaire Gillet of Management Practice, at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and among others, a former Director of McKinsey and of the McKinsey Global Institute. He advises Antler and Fortino Capital, two major VC/PE firms, and serves on the Board of multiple companies. Nicolas van Zeebroeck is a professor of digital economics and strategy at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He serves on Belgium’s High Council for Employment and as Advisor to the President and Rector of ULB for IT and Digital.…

The harshest criticism of corporate social responsibility is that companies are essentially immoral, or rather amoral. It’s said that money trumps everything, and that ethical behavior will always surrender—or simply be ignored—in the eternal quest for wealth. As the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors pillaged and destroyed in the name of gold (and God), so too will companies chase profits no matter the consequences. Critics say that it’s in their DNA. Pollution, industrial accidents, obesity, low wages, global warming, and other misfortunes that may result are just collateral damage. The charge is that companies may – at least most of the time -- observe the letter of the law, but not the spirit of the law. My experience is that that’s an accurate description of the tobacco industry. But what about…

1 Quoted in Milan Babic, “Let’s talk about the interregnum: Gramsci and the crisis of the liberal world order,” International Affairs, volume 96, number 3, May 2020, p. 773 2 Milan Babic, “Let’s talk about the interregnum: Gramsci and the crisis of the liberal world order,” International Affairs, volume 96, number 3, May 2020, p. 773 3 See, for example, Hal Brands, “The Emerging Biden Doctrine: Democracy, Autocracy, and the Defining Clash of Our Time,” Foreign Affairs, June 29, 2021, available at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-06-29/emerging-biden-doctrine 4 Milton Friedman, "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits," The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970, available at http://umich.edu/~thecore/doc/Friedman.pdf 5 Klaus Schwab, "Why we need the 'Davos Manifesto' for a better kind of capitalism," World Economic Forum, 1 December 2019, available at…

David Johnson is an Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship at the University of Glasgow. His research explores university-centred entrepreneurial ecosystems and science commercialisation. David serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Perspectives. He is a Member of the Board of Directors at the Veterinary Management Group and is also a Non-Executive Director and Trustee at the Board of Management at Borders College. John Mackenzie is the CEO of the Roslin Innovation Centre at the University of Edinburgh’s Easter Bush Campus. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh, John worked for 14 years as the Head of Knowledge Exchange at the University of Dundee’s Technology Transfer Office. As a highly experienced technology transfer and business incubator professional, John has provided advice, guidance, and support to over 30 spinout…

BPM Areas The Business An organization’s business consists of offering services and goods on the marketplace, obtaining revenue in return. Therefore, it is critical to specify how the business makes money, and how that depends on innovative solutions, efficiency and new and better ways of doing things The Directing Structure The organization’s executive structure makes explicit those responsible for carrying out the specific tasks. Therefore, the business model affects the structure and gets affected by it in turn The Professional Commitment A key task of top management is to get people to work in the pursuit of organizational goals. Hence, adequate incentive mechanisms should be thought of in order to ensure the right intrinsic and extrinsic motivation exists in pursuing such goals The Institutional Configuration Initiative, Money, and Power are…

* In their popular book Getting to Yes, Roger Fisher, William Ury and Bruce Patton introduced the concept of Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA) as being the option left when parties are unable to come to an agreement. ** Article written by Alexis Feertchak and published in Le Figaro on Oct 9th , 2019, “Boris Johnson est-il un bon négociateur?” (Is Boris Johnson a good negotiator?) https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/boris-johnson-est-il-un-bon-negociateur-20191009…

• Use the tool to Identify the density of the signs and symptoms of chronic stress in the past 3, 6, or 12 months (the latter are identified at the psychological, biological-somatic, physical-inflammatory, and physiological levels); density is a new algorithm developed for the stress map that multiplies the severity of the sign/symptom by the frequency of occurrence. This can generate a type of hierarchy of the signs and symptoms of a person’s poor coping. • Use the tool to Identify the core possible sources of chronic stress (in the work and non-work setting). Research indicates that both spheres of life are important due to a spillover effect, where sources of stress in one sphere of life of the person affects the other. • Use the tool to Identify what…

Prof. Simon L. Dolan is a researcher, author, management consultant and a very solicited speaker. A prolific author (over 77 books), the creator of the Leading, Managing and Coaching by Values school of thought. He serves as the president of the Global Future of Work Foundation. He commutes between Barcelona (Spain) and Montreal (Canada) and delivers speeches in four languages throughout the world via his “Thinking Heads” agency (www.thinkingheads.com ). His writings and interests are in the interface between values, stress, and wellbeing, coaching and leading all connected to the future of work. To learn more about him: www.simondolan.com . Contact: info@simondolan.com Prof. Mario Raich is a Swiss futurist, book author and global management consultant. He was a Senior Executive in several global financial organisations, and Invited Professor to some…

A fiercely driven and passionate individual, Wendy Colvano learned that hard work combined with a fast pace is what it takes to become a relentless headhunter. She operates with a level of urgency and organization that delivers game-changing talent. A key member of Daversa’s international practice, Wendy moved from Manhattan to London to build out Daversa’s office there and has worked with some of the most disruptive start-ups across Europe. Her results set a global standard for recruitment with C & VP-level placements for Deliveroo, Farfetch, GoCardless, Coupang and Trainline. Wendy transferred from the University of Connecticut to the University of Miami where she studied English Literature with a concentration in British Literary History.…

David De Cremer is a Provost’s chair and professor in management and organizations at NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. He is the founder and director of the Center on AI Technology for Humankind at NUS Business school. Before moving to NUS, he was the KPMG endowed chaired professor in management studies and current honorary fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is named one of the World’s top 30 management gurus and speakers in 2020 by the organization GlobalGurus, one of the “2021 Thinkers50 Radar list of 30 next generation business thinkers” (an annual ranking that the Financial Times deemed the “Oscars of Management Thinking”) and included in the World Top 2% of scientists (published in 2020). His latest book is “Leadership by algorithm: Who leads…

Q Good day, Mr Danilkis! To begin with, could we talk about what constitutes a typical workday for you? What might we find you doing during the course of a normal day? A The only thing typical about any day is that I'm always working to align the many parts of a rapidly changing business with our strategy and vision, which can mean many small (or big) decisions. In practice, that might mean interviews with key candidates, talking to customers, partners or prospects or looking at product and tech decisions which have a business impact. The most fun part of any day is working side-by-side with my team on exciting challenges, and the least fun part is saying no to great opportunities (be it people or business) because of other…

Q Thank you for gracing us with your time, Mr Tappuni! Can we begin with a few words on what initially drew you into cybersecurity? A I am an engineer by training, so I was always into networks and systems, and SCADA networks in the old days, especially with respect to industrial controls. It became evident to me that the risks were already there with regards to security, but following the 9/11 attack, security became the issue at the forefront of most people’s minds. Towards the end of the Afghanistan campaign, you could see that new security risks were occurring with respect to cybersecurity. But in contrast to physical attacks that would target certain individuals and countries at any one time, cyberattacks had – and have – the ability, range,…

Q Thank you for joining us today, Mr Peters! Would you mind giving us a little backstory on how your interest in telecommunications came about? A My college background (Fairfield University) was in physics and neuroscience, so my introduction to telecommunications came fortuitously via an internship in Human Factors Engineering, for which Bell Labs was well known at the time. I, nonetheless, still intended to be a child psychiatrist. Yet, AT&T offered me employment when I graduated, and I decided to try out the corporate world. That launched a 28-year journey at AT&T, where I filled in my knowledge base as required, e.g. MS telecom engineering (Stevens Institute), MBA Columbia University, AMP Harvard University, while enjoying a series of wonderful assignments as I progressed through the company. Q What inspired…

As CEO at Eastern Peak, a professional software consulting and development company, Alexey Chalimov ensures top quality and cost-effective services to clients from all over the world. Alexey is also a founder and technology evangelist at several technology companies. Previously, as a CEO of the Gett (GetTaxi) technology company, Alexey was in charge of developing the revolutionary Gett service from ground up and deploying the operation across the globe from London to Moscow and Tel Aviv.…

Bill Novelli, author of GOOD BUSINESS, has a distinguished career as a leader in the corporate and non-profit worlds. He was CEO of AARP, founder and president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, EVP of CARE, and president of Porter Novelli, the global public relations agency. He began his career at Unilever and also was Director of Advertising & Creative Services at the Peace Corps. Today, Novelli is a professor in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University where he teaches in the MBA program, and also founded and oversees the Georgetown Business for Impact initiative. Novelli is co-chair of the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care, a national alliance to reform advanced illness/ end of life care in the U.S, and serves on a number of other boards and…

Tim Bovy is the CEO of Six Sentinels, an international consulting firm located in London. He has over 35 years of experience in designing and implementing various types of information and risk management systems for major law firms such as Clifford Chance; and for international accountancy firms such as Deloitte. He has also developed solutions for organizations such as BT, Imperial Tobacco, Rio Tinto, the Kuwaiti government, The Royal Household, and the US House of Representatives. Tim is an elected member of The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, an Independent Think Tank based in Central London. Tim holds a BA degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame, and MA and C.Phil degrees from the University of California, Davis.…

1. Johnson, D., Bock, A.J. & George, G. (2019) Entrepreneurial dynamism and the built environment in the evolution of university entrepreneurial ecosystems. Industrial and Corporate Change, 28(4): 941-959. 2. Rothaermel, F.T., Agung, S.D. & Jiang, L. (2007) University entrepreneurship: A taxonomy of the literature. Industrial and Corporate Change, 16(4): 691-791. 3. Guerrero, M., Urbano, D., Fayolle, A., Klofsten, M. & Mian, S. (2016) Entrepreneurial universities: Emerging models in the new social and economic landscape. Small Business Economics, 47(3): 551-563. 4. Suchman, M.C. (1995) Managing legitimacy: Strategic and institutional approaches. Academy of Management Review, 20(3): 571-610. 5. Fisher, G., Kuratko, D.F., Bloodgood, J.M. & Hornsby, J.S. (2017) Legitimate to who? The challenge of audience diversity and new venture legitimacy. Journal of Business Venturing: 32, 52-71. 6. Johnson, D. & Bock, A.J.…

Pedro B. Agua graduated from the Portuguese Naval Academy in Naval Sciences, specializing in Engineering. Currently a Professor of General Management at the Portuguese Naval Academy and Senior Teaching Fellow at AESE Business School, Lisbon. Professor Agua has authored many articles and book chapters featuring various systems, governance and business policy subjects. He combines his teaching profile with an extensive business background of more than 27 years in cutting edge fields as defence, telecommunications or subsea industry. Pedro holds an MBA from AESE and IESE Business School and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Management awarded by the University of Lisbon.…

INTRODUCTION Ageing increases the risk of human diseases: of the roughly 150,000 people who die each day across the globe, about two-thirds die from age-related cause. The idea of stress and aging was born many years ago while one of the co-authors of this paper, Simon L. Dolan, was a junior researcher working with the famous team of Dr. Hans Selye at the University of Montreal. Hans Selye is considered by many to be the “father of stress”, or the founder of the concept of stress in modern medicine.1 Dolan joined the team in 1978 and stayed and worked with Hans Selye until his unexpected death in 1982. In 1980, Selye wrote the preface to Dolan and Arsenault first book on stress in French2 . The team had several periodic…

1. The balanced diet - Japanese people favor an adequate, well-proportioned, and nourishing meal. A Japanese diet is balanced physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Food is regarded as a gift from the land, the mountain, or the river. To enjoy a meal is to pay tribute to the one who prepared it. 2. The religion of nature - Japanese people worship every small thing in nature; a rock, a river, and a tree branch all possess an inner spirit that Japanese people call kami. According to Shintoism, each living thing has its individuality, but it is not separated from others. We are all part of a continuous, collective life current, and we live our lives in pursuit of that flow. 3. The embedded concept of Ikigai in daily life - Ikigai…

1. See for example: Mario Orsatti “An interview with the “father of stress” (2012) https://www. tm.org/blog/people/interview-with-father-of-stress/#:~:text=Hans%20Hugo%20Bruno%20 Selye%20%281907-1982%29%20is%20known%20as,to%20the%20pressures%20of%20 injury%20and%20intense%20experience . ; Hans Selye, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Selye 2. Shimon L. Dolan & André Arsenault (1980) Stress, santé et travail. Published as Monographie #5 (The Université de Montreal). 3. Simon L. Dolan, De-Stress at work: Understanding and combatting chronic Stress (Routledge 2022 -forthcoming): Simon L. Dolan, Eric Gosselin, André Arsenault “Stress, Santé & Performance au Travail”, Presse de l Université du Québec – Forthcoming 2022). 4. Source_ Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing 5. Hung, W. W., Ross, J. S., Boockvar, K. S. & Siu, A. L. BMC Geriatr. 11, 47 (2011). 6. Luigi Fontana, Brian K. Kennedy, Valter D. Longo, Douglas Seals & Simon Melov “Medical research: Treat ageing” , NATURE, July 23, 2014 (https://www.nature.com/articles/511405a) 7.…

Chris Nichols is co-founder of the specialist systems change consulting firm GameShift, Over the past three decades he has worked in public service, consulting, finance and academia. His work brings creative provocation and spiritual practice to the boardroom in service of human and more than human flourishing. Philippa Hardman is co-founder with Chris Nichols of GameShift. She is a chartered accountant by background, with 25 years consulting experience including Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) and PA Consulting. She was previously co-leader of the strategy engagement group and Director of Ashridge Consulting. Michael Chaskalson is a Professor of Practice at Ashridge Executive Education at Hult International Business School and associate at The Møller Institute at Churchill College in the University of Cambridge. A pioneer in the application of mindfulness to leadership…

Thank you for sparing the time to talk to us, Mr Liddle! Could we begin with a few words on what made you pursue a career in conflict resolution? Following my first degree in Race Relations in the late 1980s and early 90s, I worked in a large UK city and I saw first-hand the levels of violence and community conflicts and the woefully poor attempts to resolve them (if indeed there were any). Inspired by the principles of mediation and restorative justice – something I hadn’t really seen elsewhere in the UK – I decided to set up Leicestershire Mediation Service to help resolve community disputes and to tackle offending and anti-social behaviour. It was one of the first community mediation and restorative justice schemes in the UK. This…

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Feras Tappuni is the CEO and founder of SecurityHQ and is responsible for overseeing all the technical and financial aspects of the company. With over 25 years’ experience, he has dedicated his life to cyber security and is driven by the desire to offer his clients the highest degree of protection against today’s cyber threats. Feras has delivered complex security and engineering projects to prestigious clients globally. From harnessing the right technology, processes and people, he ensures that SecurityHQ delivers a truly enterprise grade experience.…

Kevin Peters joined NetNumber, Inc. as President and Chief Executive Officer on February 1, 2018. He had been a member of the company’s board of directors since June 2016. Peters brings to NetNumber a wealth of leadership experience gained over the course of a 28-year career with AT&T, as well as broad industry and executive advisory experience across the global technology and telecom industries. Peters retired from AT&T in 2014 as the executive vice president of global business customer service, in which he led the company’s multinational customer service operation.…

1. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/financial-services-market-valueis-expected-to-reach-26521-67-billion-by-2022--300982560.html 2. https://www.statista.com/statistics/933598/strategic-priorities-for-financial-services-firms/ 3. https://easternpeak.com/blog/explained-how-to-create-a-secure-mobile-banking-app/ 4. https://easternpeak.com/blog/examining-ai-uses-in-banking-financial-services/ 5. https://www.statista.com/statistics/647374/worldwide-blockchain-wallet-users/ 6. https://easternpeak.com/blog/big-data-in-the-banking-industry-the-main-challenges-and-use-cases/ 7. https://easternpeak.com/blog/how-to-start-a-fintech-company-7-things-every-startup-owner-should-know/…

“Being part of the [Roslin] Innovation Centre looks good for us, it builds our reputation, that’s really important as a startup…we’ve secured projects due to the close proximity to the Roslin Institute…The flexible, open plan space creates collaborative opportunities…in fact, we’re talking to two companies right now…These discussions wouldn’t have happened without the culture for entrepreneurship here at the [Roslin] Innovation Centre (Founder, startup venture). The importance of science commercialisation at the university-industry boundary cannot be overstated; nascent scientific ventures help build sustainable university-centred entrepreneurial ecosystems (UCEEs),1 which can lead to socio-economic growth (e.g., improved health, job creation, sector growth, and policy benefits). The high cost and complex science commercialisation pathways, particularly in life sciences, has led universities to focus on the built environment to support science venturing at the…

1. Dehydration - Lacking sufficient water content, the skin becomes dry, dehydrated and inflexible. 2. Collagen & Elastin Degradation - When inflammation becomes chronic, it sets off metalloproteinases (MMPs) in the skin. These enzymes which are found in the spaces between skin cells break down proteins such as collagen and elastin and inhibit their production. 3. Glycation - the skin loses its ability to build and retain fat, it becomes less and less plump. When glycation attacks our fat cells, it causes them to become misshapen and our face loses volume and begins to appear flat and sunken, as though it is falling.…