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Guiding through Corona – the 2020 outlook of German firms
To understand how German firms reacted to Corona and, especially, whether Corona changed their outlooks, Maximilian Müller, CFRA member and associate professor at ESMT, analyzed around 40 recent…
How to benefit from strategic investments
Corporates run venture capital (CVC) units that conduct equity investments into emerging startups. The CVC units usually scout for and invest in startups in hopes that this will generate certain…
Corona and coal exit affect East German economic development
After a kind of hibernation, possibly even prolonged by a second wave, will we continue to operate more or less as before the crisis? Or are we going to experience a new state after the crisis that…
Demand more from your corporate learning budget in 2021
This is not a plea to sustain the L&D budget – companies will do what is necessary to stay liquid in this turbulent time. Yet, there is no better time than now to ask the real impact question. And…
Sustainability is personnel
What kind of leadership will be needed, according to your research? Leadership that deals well with ambiguity in virtual settings – especially ambiguity in informal authority or status – will be…
Failure, for the win
What is it about failure? Headlines such as “Failure has never been more successful” and the global popularity of so-called “best failure” competitions hosted by companies as diverse as Google, Tata,…
Getting to no
Leadership in this new world is just as much about saying yes as it is about saying no. As a leader, you say yes to empower your people and their most valuable projects. However, leadership is also…
Achilles’ digital heel
For months now, electronic mailboxes have been fuller than usual: the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has taken effect and forced companies to demand consent from all their customers and…
How to help the right firms when (all) firms struggle
My research together with Inga Bethmann and Martin Jacob informs this debate by looking at how governments support struggling businesses – those that make losses – through tax benefits on a regular…
Does the European Chips Act herald a new protective policy era?
During the pandemic, the demand for semiconductors rose. At the same time, semiconductor manufacturers needed to slow down their production because of missing labor forces and extreme weather events…