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Jul 29, 2024 | 
newsweek.com | Peter Nathanial
The turmoil in the U.S. presidential race has laid bare a disturbing reality—America's imperial leadership culture is damaging its democracy as well as its moral standing and authority in the world. No longer is the United States the "shining light on a hill" for liberal democracies. Countries which, for generations, looked to the United States of America as a model of self-determination and fairer, more representative societies are yearning for better examples.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
imd.org | Peter Nathanial |Salvatore Cantale |Michael Skapinker |Richard Baldwin
The Swiss Federal Government recently issued its report on banking stability following the collapse of Credit Suisse, and the government’s intervention that led to its acquisition by arch-rival UBS.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
knowledge.insead.edu | Peter Nathanial
The US presidential election debate has delivered its verdict, produced new insights and raised new questions. The question we focus on here is why the richest country on earth has presented its voters with such poor options, and how the race to the White House has exposed the country’s democratic vulnerability. On the Republican side, we have Donald Trump, a convicted felon who was a disruptive, divisive force as President from 2017 to 2021.
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Dec 30, 2023 | 
imd.org | Richard Baldwin |Simon J Evenett |Didier Cossin |Peter Nathanial
Itâs been a rocky year for global trade. The World Trade Organization now expects trade in world merchandise to have grown just 0.8% in 2023, less than half of the 1.7% growth it forecasted earlier in the year, buffeted by rising inflation, high interest rates, and simmering geopolitical tensions. Whatâs in store for 2024? Can we expect more of the same? Or will the situation start to stabilize? Our experts share their insights on what to watch out for over the next 12 months.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
imd.org | Alyson Meister |Didier Cossin |Peter Nathanial
In the early 2000s, when Lisa Barclay was working for Bridges Ventures, a pioneering UK fund manager that aimed to achieve social and environmental goals as well as financial returns, people couldn’t work out what she was talking about. “We would go on marketing trips around the country to talk to corporate finance advisors, lawyers, and accountants to try to drum up deal flow and find businesses that we could invest in,” Barclay recalls.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
imd.org | Peter Nathanial |Jim Pulcrano |Olivier Laplace |Karl Schmedders
On 19 March this year, the Swiss authorities adopted a package of measures that enabled the takeover of Credit Suisse Group (CS) by rival UBS. The Federal Council, the Swiss National Bank (SNB), and the regulatory authority FINMA had concluded that they needed to act to protect the Swiss economy and avert further damage. The dramatic intervention, held on a Sunday evening, took many by surprise, particularly because many voices had confirmed that CS had sufficient liquidity to weather the storm.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
imd.org | Michael Watkins |Salvatore Cantale |Arturo Bris |Peter Nathanial
The furor around OpenAI CEO Sam Altman being fired, and then finally reinstated, has brought into sharp focus the potential risks of allowing the leaders of the firms developing AI to make critical decisions about the future of a technology that may pose an existential threat to humanity.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
qualitydigest.com | Peter Nathanial |David Martinez |David Martínez |Theodoros Evgeniou |François Candelon
Last month, the heads of seven major American AI companies emerged from the White House with an agreement on “self-regulation.” On the other side of the Atlantic, Europeans debate the long-awaited EU AI Act, the next major digital regulation following the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
knowledge.insead.edu | François Candelon |David Martinez |Peter Nathanial |Theodoros Evgeniou
Last month, the heads of seven major American AI companies emerged from the White House with an agreement on “self-regulation”. On the other side of the Atlantic, Europeans debate the long-awaited EU AI Act, the next major digital regulation following the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
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May 24, 2023 | 
imd.org | Carlos Cordon |Peter Nathanial |Salvatore Cantale |Michael Watkins
Even so, some smaller suppliers simply don’t have the resources or expertise to report on their ESG performance, meaning that it can become necessary to produce estimates, creating uncertainty in locating the exact numbers. The lack of data reliability means that some well-intentioned organizations are afraid of reporting on the impact of their supply chains for fear of being accused of greenwashing. This is the case even when they appear to be performing well on ESG metrics.
