The European Business Review

The European Business Review is a leading business intelligence magazine designed to ensure that its readers make informed decisions. It provides them indispensable insight, current best practices and is their best source of new ideas about what’s important. The European Business Review readers embrace leadership in their jobs and their lives. Their affluence, education, achievements, and wide ranging experience are unparalleled. They are the men and women who shape the world we love, the world we live in.

INNOVATION – NOW AND FOR GENERATIONS TO COME • Merck is well known as a vibrant science and technology company. But the company's drive to improve the wellbeing of humanity doesn't stop there; it is also the originator of a series of awards and programmes designed to motivate, facilitate and stimulate current and future scientific endeavour globally. Here, Ulrich Betz fills in some of the detail of Merck's initiatives in that regard.

A VISION OF THE FUTURE: BUILDING A SMART NATION IN BRUNEI • Digitalisation is a cornerstone of the government of Brunei's vision for the country's future. And award-winning Bruneian telco company imagine has its vision, too: “to be a force of transformation in Brunei, helping accelerate people and businesses into the future”. CEO Suzanna Suharju explains how the company intends to contribute to making Brunei a Smart Nation.

UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE: APPLYING BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE TO BUSINESS • In business, understanding your clients, partners, and, perhaps most importantly, your employees can go a long way towards empowering your leadership abilities. As Warwick Business School is just launching an Executive Diploma in Behavioural Science, we talk to Tim Mullett from WBS, who explains different ways in which behavioural science can help businesses and leaders. Not just as a tool to enhance decision-making, but also to improve the well-being and productivity of a workforce.

A Compass for Chief Executive Officers and Chief Learning Officers • In an era in which content is quasi-free and learning management engines a commodity item, it is instructors – coaches, faculty members and senior consultants and advisors and executives with a calling for teaching – that are the scarce resource.

RELOOKING AT COMPASSIONATE LEADERSHIP • It is past time for organizations to recognize the significance that compassion accords for leadership and move to inculcating the behaviors that promote it. Because compassion not only boosts business it is the main changemaker behind a more pressing issue of our divided world: inclusion.

MANAGING PEOPLE'S TALENT WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE • Artificial Intelligence leadership goes beyond technology

MAKE HIRING A DELIGHTFUL EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE • How to upgrade your employer brand to attract and retain the best talent

DON'T HIRE FOR CULTURE FIT • Hiring for culture fit is among the most widespread and exclusionary hiring practices today. Leaders must concentrate on culture add to be inclusive.

HOW TO EMPOWER YOUR EMPLOYEES TO ADOPT A CONSCIOUS ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET • Until recently, the concept of leader who is compassionate and collaborative was regarded as an exception, rather than norm. But with the tsunami of changes that have occurred since COVID-19 and The Great Resignation, it has now been propelled to the top of the must have list for any successful leader. Not only does a successful leader need to inspire their own team(s), but they also need to enable employees to think and act like entrepreneurs.

WHAT THE WAR IN UKRAINE MEANS FOR BUSINESS • The war in Ukraine has far reaching implications for business. Companies will face more complicated political and social issues than the stark, yet clear, decision to exit Russia. CEO decision making is critical, yet most CEOs have neither the background or the staff to make...