Is it over yet? Business leaders offer recession insight

These are indeed times that try men's (and women's) souls. But the way forward is not to cut back or sit on the sidelines. According to several businessmen attending INSEAD's Leadership Summit Europe, you’ve got to keep one eye on the balance sheet, another on the horizon and be mindful of constant change as new circumstances will often hide opportunities in what appears to be trouble.

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Rebuilding Europe: new architecture needed to kick-start economy

With a weakened financial system and various European governments knee-deep in debt, the emergence of a new world financial order has taken on a new urgency of late. But instead of quick fixes as the Greek crisis has clearly demonstrated, we should instead be looking for sustainable solutions towards economic prosperity.

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Lessons learned: The Nordic banking crisis of the 1990s

Once burned, twice shy. That's a lesson that has helped a lot of Swedish and Finnish businesses dodge major disaster during the world’s most recent economic crisis.

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Getting back to basics

Whether in innovation and governance, private equity, or entrepreneurship, the messages in today's increasingly global business environment are loud and clear: think differently, don't underestimate emerging markets, and get back to basics.

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Social responsibility in business today

Gordon Gekko might be back in cinemas in Wall Street II, but he seems to be less visible in today's boardrooms. As economic crises, erupting volcanoes and crippling earthquakes plague the planet, social consciousness is in, greed is…well, not out, but certainly down.

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Making more from less: does Mother Nature have enough resources to go around?

Global growth isn't all about jobs and the stock market: it's also about people. The global population will increase, despite the ageing baby boomer generation; there will be increased demands for minerals, energy, food, even blood.

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Braving the economic crisis through family values

When the economic crisis hit, the family owned and operated shipping-real estate Romav Group suffered a double-whammy. Practically overnight.

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