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TL;DR

The key to success is an error-management culture

Leadership

Mistakes don’t have to be feared — they can be your company’s greatest driver of innovation and success. Prof. Christoph Seckler argues that building an error-management culture can transform fear and silence into learning, agility, and real business results.

08 May 2025 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

The rise of AI-enabled wearables: healthcare professionals’ perspectives on benefits and barriers

AI Innovation

AI-enabled wearables like smartwatches and rings are transforming healthcare by enhancing early diagnosis and patient monitoring — but widespread adoption depends on addressing healthcare providers’ concerns about integration, privacy, and usability.

01 May 2025 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Beyond the CSR office: the employees quietly reshaping corporate climate action

ResponsibleBusiness Sustainability

As companies grapple with the gap between climate goals and meaningful action, a new force is emerging inside the workplace. Employees across sectors are stepping up — and reshaping sustainability from the inside out.

22 Apr 2025 5 min read
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Choose to Lead

Leading global teams in a rapidly changing world: the power of Purpose, Authenticity and Trust

Leadership Management

In an era of global disruption and remote work, the most effective leaders are those who lead with Purpose, Authenticity, and Trust (PAT). This authors explore how grounded, values-driven leadership empowers transformation, builds resilience, and creates lasting impact across borders and time zones.

10 Apr 2025 8 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Greenwashing in corporate sustainability: how AI is exposing false ESG claims

AI Sustainability

As greenwashing tactics become more sophisticated, ESCP graduate Palak Gupta shows how AI-powered tools can now expose misleading ESG claims by analyzing corporate reports, cross-checking third-party data, and identifying discrepancies that reveal the truth behind sustainability narratives.

03 Apr 2025 5 min read
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Transforming education with AI: empowering educators and enhancing learning

AI Education Innovation

Rishabh Rajput looks at how GenAI-powered grading and feedback tools are revolutionising assessments, improving student learning, and supercharging educators.

27 Mar 2025 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

The power of partnerships: how businesses can drive change by teaming up

Strategy

Businesses can’t solve the world’s biggest problems alone. By teaming up with nonprofits, governments and other organisations, they can drive real impact — if they do it right. But what makes a partnership truly work, and where do companies go wrong?

20 Mar 2025 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Trust: the missing link in women’s inclusion in business

InclusionDiversity ResponsibleBusiness

Despite efforts to promote gender diversity, trust remains a major barrier to women’s inclusion in the workplace. According to Prof. Béatrice Collin, to create truly inclusive workplaces, companies must prioritise trust through transparent leadership, clear policies and a commitment to equal opportunities.

06 Mar 2025 6 min read
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Their Choice

Three speeds, four waves: a century of history in gender equality

InclusionDiversity Leadership

Feminism has seen many evolutions as society and circumstances change over time. Affiliate Prof. Diana Clarke explores how technology and global challenges are shaping the future of gender equality in a reflection on a century of progress.

05 Mar 2025 3 min read
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Their Choice

Bridging the gender gap in sports: an investment opportunity

Leadership Strategy

Women’s sports have historically faced systemic barriers, yet growing participation and media coverage are driving a new wave of investment opportunities. With global revenues surpassing $1.3 billion in 2024 and record-breaking sponsorship deals, women’s sports are shifting from an overlooked sector to a lucrative, high-growth market.

04 Mar 2025 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

A race against technology: detecting traces of AI image generation

AI Strategy Tech

As AI image generation advances, distinguishing real from fake becomes crucial. Learn about detection techniques, forensic analysis, and the challenges of staying ahead in the fight against deepfakes and synthetic media.

27 Feb 2025 5 min read
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Choose to Lead

Beyond English: why language diversity is a hidden business superpower

Diversity Leadership

Language diversity isn’t just about inclusion—it’s a competitive advantage that drives innovation, collaboration, and global success. As companies navigate an increasingly multilingual workforce, understanding how to harness linguistic diversity can unlock new opportunities and strengthen team performance.

20 Feb 2025 5 min read
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TL;DR

Identifying the drivers of change: a tool for SME digital transformation

DigitalTransformation Strategy

SME digital transformation isn’t just about technology—it’s about people. Sophie Petzolt and Christoph Seckler explore the Digital Innovator Tool, a framework that helps SMEs identify key change drivers to overcome resistance and lead successful digital initiatives.

13 Feb 2025 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Gen Z and money: what their spending habits mean for business

Finance Strategy

From spending now to saving the planet, Gen Z’s relationship with money is full of contradictions. Julien Schmitt, a professor of sustainability and marketing at ESCP, outlines what businesses need to know.

06 Feb 2025 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Improving employee performance and satisfaction: a practical guide for managing work pace in competitive environments

Leadership Strategy

ESCP Masters graduate Giacomo Agnelli explores the challenges of balancing intense work demands with employee well-being in competitive industries, highlighting the impact of overwork, ambient competition, and lack of free time.

23 Jan 2025 4 min read
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How to use AI without losing the human perspective

AI Innovation ResponsibleBusiness

AI can do amazing things, but how do we make sure we don’t lose the human touch? Lorena Blasco-Arcas, professor of marketing at ESCP, explains how businesses can strike the right balance.

16 Jan 2025 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

The cultural dynamics within global institutions: a practical outlook

Inclusion Leadership

Authors explore how cultural dynamics shape global organisations and learn practical strategies for fostering cohesion, inclusivity, and resilience in culturally diverse teams.

08 Jan 2025 7 min read
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Unleashing self-awareness through reflexivity: Practical insights for business leaders

Leadership Strategy

In today’s dynamic and often unpredictable business landscape, the ability to adapt and make informed decisions is more critical than ever. While technical skills remain essential, the true differentiator often lies in self-awareness—the ability to recognise and understand one’s own emotions, values, and behaviours.  However, self-awareness is not innate—it requires cultivation, a journey that can…

12 Dec 2024 3 min read
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Their Choice

S.W.A.G. Studio: using urban dance to foster inclusion and fight exclusion

Entrepreneurship Inclusion

ESCP alumna Pauline Terestchenko’s studio isn’t just a place to dance — it’s a movement that’s bringing refugees, beginners and marginalised groups together to break down barriers and build community.

28 Nov 2024 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Why soft skills matter and how to build them

FutureofWork Leadership

ESCP Professor Chiara Succi defines soft skills and discusses how to upskill them to meet the demands of the modern workplace.

14 Nov 2024 4 min read
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Adopting a holistic approach to a just transition: lessons from the aviation industry

ResponsibleBusiness Sustainability

Gerben Broekema, Vishal Babajee, and Ramón Fisac García explore a more balanced approach to climate action and social equity.

07 Nov 2024 8 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Turning despair into hope: the power of social innovation

Innovation Sustainability

While technology promises quick fixes, social innovation focuses on people, tackling the deeper issues behind inequality and environmental harm, says ESCP’s Associate Dean and Professor of Sustainability Gorgi Krlev.

31 Oct 2024 4 min read
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Building business resilience through climate change adaptation strategies

Strategy Sustainability

ESCP Master’s graduate Alice Maffini-Delvallée takes a look at the food sector to understand how businesses are adapting their supply chain to climate change.

16 Oct 2024 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Always on? How setting workplace boundaries can save your mental health

Leadership #Well-Being

As work creeps into our personal lives, setting boundaries is no longer optional, says ESCP’s Kerstin Alfes; it’s essential for our wellbeing and productivity.

02 Oct 2024 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Beyond the water cooler: building workplace connections in a hybrid world

FutureofWork Strategy

As hybrid work becomes the norm, spontaneous office chats are fading away. But some companies are rethinking interactions to keep culture and creativity alive, say ESCP academics Emmanuelle Léon and Yaëlle Amsallem.

25 Sep 2024 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Winning hearts, not just games: the power of emotion in sports marketing

Marketing Strategy

ESCP alumnus Pierumberto Viotto, now at energy drinks company Red Bull, shares how tapping into emotion creates unforgettable campaigns that connect with fans worldwide.

29 Aug 2024 4 min read
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TL;DR

Humans bring to work a type of intelligence that AI cannot match

AI FutureofWork

Chiara Succi describes three levels of (irreplaceable) human contribution to the workplace: intelligent hand, intelligent mind and intelligent heart.

01 Aug 2024 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

On-demand fashion gives much-needed clues on how to green notoriously wasteful industry

ResponsibleBusiness Sustainability

Professor Valérie Moatti takes a look at on-demand fashion and the ways it might help make the fashion industry more sustainable.

17 Jul 2024 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How Europe’s AI Act could affect innovation and competitiveness

AI Strategy

As the dust settles on the recent European Parliament elections, we caught up with ESCP’s Philip Meissner to assess the impact of the EU AI Act on the broader political and economic landscape.

04 Jul 2024 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Behind the Algorithm: Unveiling Trust Issues in AI Decisions

FutureofWork Strategy

ESCP Master in Management student Julius von Diergardt discusses the gaps in trust towards AI in business and how we might alleviate them.

27 Jun 2024 4 min read
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Their Choice

Beyond pride month: fostering year-round inclusivity in your workplace

Inclusion ResponsibleBusiness

ESCP alumnus Jessica McKeon lays out strategies businesses can implement to foster an inclusive environment for LGBTQ+ professionals inside (and beyond) their organisations.

20 Jun 2024 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Navigating the new normal: Strategies for making decisions amid extreme uncertainty

Entrepreneurship Strategy

In an interview with ESCP professor René Mauer, we unpack the essence of uncertainty in entrepreneurship – and explore strategies for making strategic decisions in unpredictable environments.

13 Jun 2024 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Unlocking the power of AI in the workplace: A practical guide for today’s leaders

FutureofWork Strategy

ESCP Master in Management students Shruti Jha and Milap Bhaveshkumar Trivedi provide practical tips for business leaders looking to adopt AI into their workplaces.

06 Jun 2024 5 min read
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TL;DR

Festivals and fast fashion: Ethical consumers making deals with their conscience

ResponsibleBusiness Strategy

According to Frédéric Jallat, the discrepancies between our intentions and what we actually do can be explained in particular by the power of habit or our lack of consistency.

29 May 2024 4 min read
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Sweet success: How Häagen-Dazs franchises while protecting brand identity

Leadership Strategy

The decadent ice cream maker’s success hinges on fostering collaborative partnerships with entrepreneurs who share its vision and values. We sat down with Aurélie Lory, an ESCP alumna who is the Global Managing Director of Häagen-Dazs Shops, for insights on ensuring consistency and authenticity with a franchise model.

14 May 2024 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

The future of work: Why we need to think beyond the hype of the four-day week

FutureofWork Strategy

Working better or working less? Yaëlle Amsallem and Emmanuelle Léon explain how the four-day week raises questions about the meaning we give to work.

25 Apr 2024 5 min read
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TL;DR

Three tips to guide leaders working virtually as an everyday practice

FutureofWork Leadership

Petros Chamakiotis discusses new research on virtual working and the ways we may need to reshape our thinking around it.

17 Apr 2024 3 min read
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Their Choice

Pandas: As rare as women leaders?

Inclusion Leadership

We discussed gender equality at work with Isabelle Hoyer, co-founder of PANDA Network, one of Germany’s largest networks for women.

02 Apr 2024 6 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How to make innovation happen in a highly regulated landscape amidst transition

Innovation Strategy

While research indicates the importance of the execution side of innovation, it is rather silent on how to make innovation work in a highly regulated landscape amidst transition.

27 Mar 2024 6 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Unleashing the potential of deep tech innovations

Innovation Tech

To devise strategies for harnessing the potential of deep tech innovations, we sat down with Martin Kupp, professor for entrepreneurship and strategy at ESCP.

21 Mar 2024 5 min read
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Their Choice

Start, Learn, Lead: Lessons for first-time entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship

Maksim Shymanovich embraces the challenge of starting things from zero. What can we learn from his experience as a young entrepreneur?

15 Mar 2024 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

From blockchain to digital biomarkers: opportunities and challenges in health tech

Innovation Tech

ESCP alumna Clarissa Gorin’s journey from tackling counterfeit medications in Africa to pioneering real-time disease monitoring underscores the transformative power of healthcare technology.

08 Mar 2024 4 min read
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TL;DR

Beyond automation: Strategic implications of generative AI in business

AI Strategy Tech

Louis-David Benyayer comments on research published since the release of ChatGPT and outlines five implications for corporations.

21 Feb 2024 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How to create a culture of learning within your company

FutureofWork Leadership

ESCP alumna Florence Bernet explains how a culture of learning can be a transformative force in unlocking the full potential of your workforce.

15 Feb 2024 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Successful AI adoption requires a new metric: Tolerance

Leadership Tech

Employees’ acceptance of technology and trust can be overridden by questions around job security, autonomy and the impersonal nature of AI. Alessandro Lanteri and his co-authors suggest steps for decision-makers to address their concerns.

12 Feb 2024 6 min read
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Their Choice

World Economic Forum: Key insights driving the 2024 business agenda

AI ResponsibleBusiness

From political undercurrents to emerging technologies and the imperative for inclusive, action-oriented dialogue, ESCP’s Gorgi Krlev outlines the implications for businesses from this year’s Davos.

08 Feb 2024 5 min read
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TL;DR

“Corporate Sustainability Reporting deserves better”

ResponsibleBusiness Sustainability

Frank Figge comments on his mention of a Chinese energy giant’s sustainability report that actually led to an article in the press.

06 Feb 2024 3 min read
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Choose to Lead

The great office working dilemma: how to manage hybrid work effectively

FutureofWork Management

With hybrid work on the rise, Frédéric Plais, CEO of remote work trailblazer platform.sh, shares insights on what companies can learn from a business that has thrived on remote operations since its inception in 2014.

26 Jan 2024 5 min read
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TL;DR

“Acknowledging mistakes can pay off”

Leadership Strategy

Violette Bouveret looks back at the successful U-turn at Stellantis, which she believes demonstrates the need to rehabilitate courage.

23 Jan 2024 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

The challenge of regulating AI

AI

The benefits of AI are tangible, promising significant efficiency gains to improve our lives and the future of our planet. If we can cooperate.

18 Jan 2024 6 min read
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Choose to Lead

How can sport inspire managers to stimulate collective intelligence?

ExecutiveInsights Sports

With the 2024 Olympic Games hosted in Paris, Christophe Inzirillo takes the opportunity to discuss how the values, know-how and skills from the world of sport could influence our companies.

21 Dec 2023 5 min read
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TL;DR

Do you know how to cope with inflation as a manager?

Leadership Strategy

Frédéry Fréry comments on the current situation regarding inflation and gives tips on how to deal with it.

19 Dec 2023 3 min read
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Choose to Lead

How to identify the right talents and passion for better collaboration

FutureofWork Management

In the contemporary workplace, passion can be the secret ingredient that ignites collaboration. But how can managers distinguish passion from enthusiasm?

14 Dec 2023 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How artificial intelligence will transform decision-making

Leadership Tech

Philip Meissner and Yusuke Narita show how AI will change decision-making and what effects this will have on competitiveness.

05 Dec 2023 4 min read
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Their Choice

Transforming the arts through sustainable innovation

Innovation ResponsibleBusiness

Finnish National Opera and Ballet & FEDORA show how the lessons learned from sustainable innovation in arts and culture can be extended to other sectors of the economy.

29 Nov 2023 4 min read
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TL;DR

Beyond the numbers: The unexpected benefits of ignoring data

Data Strategy Tech

Louis-David Benyayer comments on a NYT story about elite distance runners and explains why deliberately ignoring data could actually take you a long way.

21 Nov 2023 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

As venture capital funding plummets, here’s how founders can raise finance and conserve capital

Entrepreneurship

Davide Sola offers strategies that entrepreneurs can adopt to secure funding in this evolving economic environment, all while becoming more resource-efficient in the face of constraints in funding availability.

16 Nov 2023 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Using gamification to foster environmental responsibility in companies

ResponsibleBusiness Sustainability

It is time to push the limits of gamification by applying it to larger, more pressing issues, in particular, corporate environmental responsibility.

09 Nov 2023 5 min read
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TL;DR

AI: Who will win on this new geopolitical battleground?

AI Innovation Tech

Hao (Howard) Zhong takes a close look at the four key resources driving technological – and ultimately, geopolitical – advances.

07 Nov 2023 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Impact Business Models: From aspiration to evaluation

ResponsibleBusiness Strategy

Two researchers define a specific type of business model — the impact business model — and what to keep in mind when developing it & measuring the impact.

01 Nov 2023 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

A guide to finding the right business coach

Leadership ProfessionalDevelopment

What do great careers have in common? Business coaching that made the difference. Susanne Kortendick shares her advice on finding the right coach.

25 Oct 2023 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Queer leadership: LGBTQI+ people still overwhelmingly absent from corporate boards

InclusionDiversity Leadership

Although LGBTQI+ people certainly enjoy greater career opportunities than their peers a few decades ago, it is exceedingly rare to see them on corporate boards.

19 Oct 2023 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How sustainable innovation is reshaping industry

Innovation Strategy

To delve deeper into sustainable innovation, we turned to Robert Sheldon, a professor of entrepreneurship at ESCP.

12 Oct 2023 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Navigating workplace well-being: a Q&A with our community

Leadership #Well-Being

Because well-being at work is not a guarantee, we must do our best to cultivate it, at the individual level and in our workplace cultures.

09 Oct 2023 9 min read
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Choose to Lead

Aligning brand values: How to navigate brand-event partnerships in the era of sustainability

Branding ResponsibleBusiness

In a world where ethics and sustainability are paramount, the road to successful brand-event partnerships requires careful navigation, but the rewards for those who get it right can be significant.

05 Oct 2023 4 min read
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TL;DR

Faith, Hope and Carnage: Innovate like Nick Cave!

Innovation Leadership

Ghislain Deslandes says when it comes to creativity, managers should steal a page from the artist’s memoirs.

29 Sep 2023 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Have we lost trust? How to encourage connection and trust in the modern workplace

FutureofWork Management

As we navigate the complexities of the modern workplace, where virtual meetings are more frequent than face-to-face interactions, the question of how to foster connection and trust has become paramount. 

20 Sep 2023 7 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

‘Greenhushing’: why some companies are keeping their green strategies in the dark

ResponsibleBusiness Sustainability

With some organisations downplaying their sustainability initiatives to avoid greenwashing, ESCP’s Julien Schmitt explains its consequences for business and society.

12 Sep 2023 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Generative artificial intelligence: how do we mitigate the extreme risks?

AI

Amidst the stark warnings of the risks of AI, we spoke with Assistant Professor Howard Zhong to explore effective solutions, such as AI regulation.

07 Sep 2023 5 min read
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How to make it in Silicon Valley as a foreign founder

Entrepreneurship

Starting your own venture in Silicon Valley is already no easy feat. What about when you’re a newcomer to the USA? Bruno Lévêque, a French entrepreneur living in the Bay Area, has some tips.

29 Aug 2023 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How to avoid the commodification of culture: a challenge of authenticity

Culture ResponsibleBusiness

The student film The Spectacle of Culture reminds us of how, in a world of mass tourism, the internet, and life lived through social media and Artificial Intelligence, “culture” can come to mean something artificial and generic.

23 Aug 2023 6 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

The future of work: what does it mean for employees?

FutureofWork

A team of researchers explores four major transformative processes and their benefits and downsides for employees’ performance, skills, career advancement and well-being in the future of work.

16 Aug 2023 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

To unlock the full potential of sustainable innovation, look at patterns in business model design

Innovation ResponsibleBusiness

When it comes to sustainability, product innovation will only get you so far. It is time to rethink our business models.

08 Aug 2023 6 min read
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Choose to Lead

Why entrepreneurs need to make use of chance 

Entrepreneurship

René Mauer explains why entrepreneurs should tap the potential of chance, and how to open the door.

01 Aug 2023 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence: What upheavals will the managers of the future face?

ExecutiveInsights

With the generative AI revolution, how can managers best approach this new technology that will change the way we work? Louis-David Benyayer this topic in his Executive Education white paper.

27 Jul 2023 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Harnessing AI to accelerate digital transformation

AI

By overcoming challenges around data access and quality, access to talent and skills, as well as taking systematic approaches to AI, companies can ultimately unlock the potential for this technology to accelerate digital transformation.

18 Jul 2023 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Exploring the Future Beyond Large Language Models

AI Innovation

Despite their undeniable success, LLMs are not without their problems and limitations. Gabriel Scali looks beyond LLMs to what is next for AI.

12 Jul 2023 6 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How to spot greenwashing in all its forms

ResponsibleBusiness

It’s important for consumers and employees to be critical and informed when evaluating environmental claims made by companies, so we spoke with Valentin Martinie of Alerte Greenwashing for some guidance.

05 Jul 2023 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Unlocking knowledge sharing in a hybrid work environment

Leadership

The rise of hybrid work has brought new opportunities for knowledge sharing in the workplace, but also challenges. However, there are ways for organisations to effectively exchange information and ideas to drive success.

04 Jul 2023 4 min read
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Beyond rainbows: how to be an effective LGBT+ ally

Inclusion Leadership

ESCP’s LGBT+ Leadership Programme Director Stephan Schmuck shares his advice to help allies support LGBT+ colleagues during Pride Month and beyond.

29 Jun 2023 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

4 tips for career planning amid transformation and uncertainty

FutureofWork

In a future defined by careers and challenges that don’t exist yet, how can you find a meaningful way to plan for the years ahead?

27 Jun 2023 5 min read
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TL;DR

Do we have more ‘teachable moments’ in the office, or outside of it?

Peter Vanham comments on an article from the FT reporting that BlackRock was citing ‘teaching moments’ as the reason why it was calling employees back to the office four days a week.

23 Jun 2023 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

AI can replicate human creativity in two key ways – but falls apart when asked to produce something truly new

AI Innovation

Is computational creativity possible? The recent hype around generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Dall-E and many others, raises new questions about whether creativity is a uniquely human skill.

20 Jun 2023 3 min read
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TL;DR

“For a robot, earning trust is not just a matter of good visual design”

Innovation Tech

Héctor González-Jiménez comments on an article claiming that the aspect of a robot could be determinant in earning trust.

16 Jun 2023 3 min read
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How to measure business impact on society and the environment

ResponsibleBusiness

Prof. Alisa Sydow provides a three-step playbook for quantifying the costs imposed on society and the environment — information that can empower you to take positive action.

15 Jun 2023 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

In liberated companies, purpose challenges the dictatorship of profit

Leadership Sustainability

Leaders who empower their teams are more likely to put the organisation’s purpose at the centre of their decision-making, assert Emilie Poli and Eymeric Guinet based on a series of interviews.

09 Jun 2023 5 min read
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How to avoid greenwashing

ResponsibleBusiness

As consumers and investors embrace sustainability, companies are often keen to shout about their green moves. But doing so is risky, requiring a strategic approach.

07 Jun 2023 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Agile, Inclusive, and Responsible: The New Frontiers of Leadership

ExecutiveInsights

The challenges faced by companies in recent years have necessitated changes in business models and impacted the style of management and leadership.

02 Jun 2023 3 min read
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Choose to Lead

Am I the toxic colleague in my workplace?

Leadership

Toxic colleagues are a scourge of the workplace. But there are ways to recognise and thwart toxicity before it grows and festers in your organisation.

01 Jun 2023 4 min read
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TL;DR

How to stay engaged when everything is changing

Leadership Management

Cécile Dejoux reflects on the disengagement of the workforce, as shown by the State of the Global Workplace: 2022 report and the ‘quiet quitting’ and ‘great resignation’ phenomena among others.

30 May 2023 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

From ideation to success: the power of feedback for entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship

What do a mattress startup and a medical resources platform have in common? The answer: listening, learning and adapting to customer feedback.

23 May 2023 5 min read
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TL;DR

Four non-tech conditions for AI to improve performance

AI Strategy

Prof. Louis-David Benyayer derives four performance drivers from research about the factors influencing the success of artificial intelligence initiatives.

19 May 2023 2 min read
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Their Choice

Three lessons in leadership from a CFO

Leadership

ESCP alumna Marlene Pelage has turned adversity into a source of resilience and adaptability, and says you can too.

17 May 2023 4 min read
TL;DR

How to avoid getting trapped by a disruption strategy

Frédéric Fréry reflects on the theory of ‘disruptive innovation’, which some have called the most influential business idea of the early 21st century.

12 May 2023 2 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How brands can stand out when everyone is a content creator

Branding Strategy

Marie Taillard, L’Oréal Professor of Creativity Marketing at ESCP Business School, explains why brands need to engage with content creators more than ever.

10 May 2023 5 min read
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Choose to Lead

How to leverage AI tools like ChatGPT to do your job faster and better

AI FutureofWork Innovation

Héctor González-Jiménez has some expert guidance on how to navigate the rise of generative AI tools — and avoid being supplanted by AI.

04 May 2023 4 min read
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Their Choice

Building on the strength of small businesses to boost the sustainability transition

SustainabilityActors

Nature lover and entrepreneur Valérie Thobois helps small to medium enterprises (SMEs) integrate sustainability into their activities.

02 May 2023 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

The 5 secrets of effective prototyping

Entrepreneurship

ESCP talks to Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy Martin Kupp to find out the key to successfully launching your first prototype.

27 Apr 2023 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

The role of emotional intelligence in your customer experience

EmotionalIntelligence Strategy

CX expert Julien Hervy makes the case that emotional intelligence has a profound impact on the customer experience.

25 Apr 2023 4 min read
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TL;DR

(Video) gaming killed the other media?

Michael Haenlein rejoices at a special report from The Economist noting that video games have become a universal pastime and are following the same path as other mass media.

21 Apr 2023 2 min read
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Choose to Lead

Why employees need to be more entrepreneurial than ever

Entrepreneurship FutureofWork

Encouraging employees to use entrepreneurial thinking and action is the key to safeguarding a company’s long-term existence, claim Christoph Seckler and Peter Borchers. This is how businesspeople motivate and promote their workforce.

19 Apr 2023 4 min read
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TL;DR

A much-needed clarification of what the circular economy is – and is not

CircularEconomy Sustainability

Economist Hans Stegeman comments on a research paper offering a clear(er) definition of the circular economy.

14 Apr 2023 2 min read
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Choose to Lead

Should your business speak out on heated social, political and moral issues?

Leadership ResponsibleBusiness

While taking a public stance can be risky, staying silent is no longer an option. To help companies weigh in effectively, we spoke to ESCP expert Laetitia Mimoun.

12 Apr 2023 4 min read
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TL;DR

Picking a side in the ESG wars: what the US political debate means for business

Finance ResponsibleBusiness

The debate about ESG investing has been hovering around the fringes of American politics for a while. What are the implications for businesses?

07 Apr 2023 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Digital innovation in Europe: playing catch-up

Europe Innovation

Despite possessing some unique strengths, Europe still lags behind the US and China on digital innovation. What do the region’s companies and policymakers need to do about it?

04 Apr 2023 4 min read
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TL;DR

War, Peace & Business: How geopolitics is impacting globalisation

Leadership Strategy

Former ambassador Maxime Lefebvre comments on an article published by the FT saying that geopolitics is the biggest threat to globalisation.

03 Apr 2023 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

AI shows why it is imperative to have more women in negotiations

InclusionDiversity Negotiation Strategy

Daniela Lup writes that the need for inclusion of diverse voices became even more urgent when an AI agent created by Meta achieved human-like performance in an online game involving strategic negotiation.

30 Mar 2023 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Tackling the big risks to global supply chains

Strategy

ESCP Professor Christian Durach helps companies navigate the tectonic shifts disrupting global supply chains.

29 Mar 2023 4 min read
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Their Choice

B Corp Certification: a window or a mirror?

ResponsibleBusiness Strategy

The president of a B Corp, Phil Glynn explains his company’s choice to balance a for-profit model with a social mission.

27 Mar 2023 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

How business can deliver where government is failing

Leadership ResponsibleBusiness

As trust in government institutions has weakened, the expectations of business leaders have soared. How can businesses can use this trust for good?

21 Mar 2023 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

“Business leaders should take political risks more seriously”

Leadership Strategy

In an increasingly uncertain international environment, business leaders should be more aware of political risks and develop ways to respond to them while avoiding cognitive biases, claim Lorenzo Coronati and Frédéric Jallat.

16 Mar 2023 5 min read
TL;DR

Even when algorithms outperform humans, humans can still make the difference

AI Strategy

Prof. Louis-David Benyayer reflects on the strategic implications of research showing that under certain conditions, humans perform better than machines when it comes to decision-making.

15 Mar 2023 2 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Why businesses need a human rights officer

ResponsibleBusiness

ESCP Affiliate Professor of Governance, Law & Leadership Dr. Daniel Perlzweig explains how businesses can take concrete steps to protect human rights, particularly with the help of a human rights officer

14 Mar 2023 5 min read
TL;DR

“It is time to build a society with new imaginaries and models”

ResponsibleBusiness Strategy

Anne-France Mariacher comments on the latest edition of the Circularity Gap Report, which according to her shows we need to start rethinking our consumption and business models.

10 Mar 2023 3 min read
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Choose to Lead

Emotional intelligence for all: bridging the gap between Boomers, Millennials and GenZ at work

EmotionalIntelligence Leadership

It takes a village to raise a child – and a global village to make a successful business. The lingua franca of this global village? Emotional intelligence.

09 Mar 2023 5 min read
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TL;DR

Is it a unicorn or a donkey with a party hat?

Entrepreneurship Innovation

A reflection on unicorns and the lack of purpose of some founders like Sam Bankman-Fried.

03 Mar 2023 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

4 strategies for brands to deal with geopolitical crises

Branding Strategy

Laetitia Mimoun offers four possible ways of responding to situations like the war between Russia and Ukraine depending on brands’ positioning.

27 Feb 2023 4 min read
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TL;DR

Not so Frank! The keys to a great scam

Entrepreneurship

Hervé Laroche comments on the tribulations of the latest fraudulent start-up’s founder.

24 Feb 2023 3 min read
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Choose to Lead

Quiet hiring will future-proof your workforce – if done right

FutureofWork HR

As employers grapple with labour shortages and the Great Resignation, they are turning to a growing trend: sourcing human capital from within the organisation, aka quiet hiring.

23 Feb 2023 4 min read
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Their Choice

Making the beautiful and the good accessible to all, an interview with Monoprix’s CSR director

ResponsibleBusiness SustainabilityActors

Monoprix’s CSR director sheds light on the French retail chain’s journey toward sustainability, as well as her own.

21 Feb 2023 4 min read
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TL;DR

What can mindfulness do for management?

Management #Well-Being

Cécile Dejoux reflects on the trend followed by many companies which have started teaching mindfulness in the office.

17 Feb 2023 3 min read
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How can we better include migrants and refugees in the workplace?

Inclusion ResponsibleBusiness

Expert on management of diversity and inclusion in organisations, Lena Knappert shares her insights on the best way to provide support for refugees and migrants in the workplace.

16 Feb 2023 6 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Virtual influencers, virtual employees: how can brands leverage a new kind of relationship with their audiences?

Innovation

Virtual characters are one of the biggest digital opportunities for brands, argues ESCP alumnus Laurent François, managing partner at the creative agency 180.

13 Feb 2023 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How to boost creativity and innovation in your teams on a daily basis

ExecutiveInsights

ESCP Executive Education spoke with Pedro Gonzalo, a specialist in creativity, leadership and human resources, to identify the factors that foster creativity and implement successful creative management.

10 Feb 2023 4 min read
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TL;DR

“Entrepreneurs too can aspire to be good leaders in a bad economy”

Entrepreneurship Leadership

Entrepreneurship expert Alisa Sydow relates Merete Wedell-Wedellsborg’s insights about how to be a good leader in turbulent times to the role of founders.

09 Feb 2023 3 min read
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Their Choice

From student startup to edtech acquisition, the founder of Clay shares his quest to scale social learning

Entrepreneurship

Christoph Koenig, founder of the student messaging solution Clay, tells us about his experience growing and selling a company just four years after graduating from ESCP.

07 Feb 2023 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

A quantum task force will prepare your business for the next tech revolution – if done right

Innovation Strategy

Daniele Battaglia and Alessandro Lanteri suggest how to effectively create a dedicated task force to prepare to seize the opportunities of the quantum revolution and avoid its threats.

02 Feb 2023 6 min read
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TL;DR

“Kindness and business shouldn’t just rhyme”

Management #Well-Being

Peter Vanham reflects on the 2023 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, an organisation he used to work for, and the importance of friendliness and benevolence in the corporate world – and outside of it.

30 Jan 2023 3 min read
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Their Choice

Becoming a stakeholder-first leader

Leadership

FTSE 100 CEO of Intertek and ESCP alumnus André Lacroix on why the corporate world must reinvent leadership to put people on a par with profits.

24 Jan 2023 5 min read
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TL;DR

“To innovate, bring exploration and exploitation talents together”

Leadership Strategy

Frédéric Fréry reflects upon the paradox at work in the essential combination of exploration and exploitation highlighted by James March.

19 Jan 2023 2 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How social media can be used to communicate your brand through employee voices

Profs. Lorena Blasco-Arcas, Almudena Cañibano and Hsin-Hsuan (Meg) Lee give employers a few tips to turn employees into powerful allies and brand advocates.

18 Jan 2023 4 min read
TL;DR

No benefits of automation without major investments in human resources

Data #HumanResources

Prof. Louis-David Benyayer reflects on research tending to show the key to success in leveraging automation with AI is human-based.

12 Jan 2023 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Scaling as the search for profit-market fit

Entrepreneurship Leadership

Davide Sola, Jeffrey F. Rayport, Martin Kupp and Sophia Braun explain that companies should take value creation into consideration, and therefore look for profit-market fit.

10 Jan 2023 7 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Virtual worlds and the metaverse: disruption for the managers of tomorrow?

Tech

Professor Andreas Kaplan explores the opportunities and existing use cases made possible by the metaverse, and how to manage an implementation strategy of this new technology despite challenges.

06 Jan 2023 1 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How bosses can ensure ‘meaningfulness’ at a company

Leadership Management

In a time of skills shortages, employers need to retain their staff. One concept in particular is becoming increasingly important: meaningfulness. Kerstin Alfes gives some tips on how employers can reinforce this feeling. 

03 Jan 2023 3 min read
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TL;DR

Challenging hierarchy

Leadership Management

Are organizational problems always rooted in the ‘hierarchical’ phenomenon? This is not the opinion of Ghislain Deslandes, who reviews a study devoted to this subject.

22 Dec 2022 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Coping with corrupt situations: why companies must consider the context

Leadership Sustainability

The World Cup and ‘Qatargate’ are the latest demonstrations of the fact that corruption is still an imposing challenge. Maral Muratbekova-Touron and her co-authors explain how companies can fight it more effectively.

15 Dec 2022 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Entrepreneurship: is your startup idea a “good” one?

Entrepreneurship

What does it mean to have a “good” startup idea? To try to answer this question, we sat down with Maëva Tordo, director of ESCP’s European incubator, the Blue Factory.

14 Dec 2022 5 min read
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What cultural intelligence is & why it is important

Inclusion Leadership ProfessionalDevelopment

In today’s diverse employment market, with its focus on digital platforms, global social networks and remote working, cultural intelligence has never been more important.

13 Dec 2022 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Executive career success: how to cash in on international experience

CareerLessons ProfessionalDevelopment

Internationally-seasoned executives are assumed to be more expensive than those who stay put, but how exactly can you make sure it pays to have an international education and work experience?

12 Dec 2022 5 min read
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TL;DR

Advancing global LGBT+ rights through the big business of sport

InclusionDiversity Leadership

On Human Rights Day, Ken Chan explains why the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is an opportunity for companies to help advance LGBT+ rights globally.

08 Dec 2022 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

5 tips to build strong cross-cultural virtual teams

Diversity RemoteWork

Cross-cultural virtual teams are on the rise but cultural differences can create barriers to communication and the lack of physical interaction can make it worse. Prof. Marion Festing explains how to make sure they can communicate effectively.

05 Dec 2022 4 min read
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TL;DR

“We need new forms of governance for the further development of the space sector, not just Elon Musk’s enterprises”

Sustainability

David Lehmann comments on the latest Global Risks Report, highlighting some of the critical risks around space, providing additional context information and discussing implications for business.

29 Nov 2022 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

My boss wants me to launch us into the Metaverse. What do I do?

Strategy Tech

ESCP experts Marie Taillard and Howard Zhong share their thoughts on getting the best out of the Metaverse at this stage in the game.

24 Nov 2022 6 min read
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TL;DR

“Caution: cash bonuses dilute easily, but non-monetary rewards live on”

Management

Frédéric Fréry comments on Elon Musk’s record bonus at Tesla, and praises other forms of reward.

24 Nov 2022 2 min read
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Choose to Lead

Care management: motivating employees and stopping burnout in the ‘new normal’

Management Strategy

Cécile Dejoux presents a managerial approach based on a scientific model that meets the needs for meaningfulness and work-life balance of employees and managers.

22 Nov 2022 4 min read
Woman teleworking on a bed in the dark.
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How people view telework depends on factors beyond the organisation

FutureofWork Management

Almudena Cañibano and Argyro Avgoustaki explain that factors beyond the organisation, such as labour market conditions, play a key role in employees’ interpretation of telework as a potential threat.

18 Nov 2022 5 min read
TL;DR

The usefulness of consultancies: An old issue in need of new answers… and new questions

Management

Tristan Dupas-Amory comments on a cover story of The Economist seemingly questioning management consultants’ usefulness.

16 Nov 2022 4 min read
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How to navigate business amid soaring geopolitical risk

Leadership Strategy

We talked to ESCP Profs Régis Coeurderoy and Stefan Schmid to understand how business leaders can navigate this increasingly uncertain geopolitical climate.

15 Nov 2022 5 min read
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Choose to Lead

3 steps businesses can take to reduce bias in AI systems

AI InclusionDiversity

How can we ensure that AI development is fair, when the algorithms at its core are designed with biases? Profs. Lorena Blasco-Arcas and Hsin-Hsuan Meg Lee propose to a human-centred view for the design of specific frameworks and regulatory systems.

10 Nov 2022 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Bricks, bytes and behaviour: Solving the hybrid work dilemma

FutureofWork #Well-Being

With the recent introduction of the hybrid work environment, what can companies incorporate to encourage employee engagement?

08 Nov 2022 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Well-being at work: why has it become the strategic issue for companies?

#Well-Being

As if we needed more proof of how important physical and mental health is for staff, the recent crisis further highlighted this reality as employees struggled to remain flexible, withstand pressure and work remotely. Recent studies indicate that, in France, an employee that is fulfilled is an employee that is less frequently absent and sick,…

04 Nov 2022 3 min read
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TL;DR

Algorithms in HR: for better or for worse?

AI #HumanResources

Catherine Lespérance explains why the use of algorithms to determine whether an employee is efficient enough to stay on the payroll is controversial, and how to overcome the challenges of using algorithms in human resources to better modernise HR departments.

03 Nov 2022 3 min read
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How to make your data (and life online) more sustainable

Data ResponsibleBusiness Sustainability

As immaterial as it is, data is everywhere, and so is its environmental footprint. Yannick Meiller explains how we can make our data use more sustainable.

02 Nov 2022 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Using data wisely to make smart(er) cities more sustainable

Data Sustainability

Businesses, cities and citizens, academics even, must use data not only intelligently but also responsibly to make cities truly sustainable.

02 Nov 2022 6 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

AI, Big Data, IoT… What does the future of work hold?

Data FutureofWork

How will today’s workers be included in the future of work dominated by big data, IoT, and constant technological advancement? Let’s find out with Prof. Javier Barbero.

28 Oct 2022 3 min read
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Their Choice

Why choose when you can combine?

CareerLessons

Director of Fondation Carmignac and member of folk-rock group Moriarty, Charles Carmignac shares how all of his experiences have made him who he is today

27 Oct 2022 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Regaining trust in data: Open data and why it matters

Data Strategy

Data expert and Co-Founder & CEO of Work With Data Laurent Molter uncovers ways in which open data is providing value to business leaders.

25 Oct 2022 4 min read
A row of 4 chairs with the writing "we are hiring" on the first, third, and fourth chairs which are white, but on the second chair, which is green it is left blank to signify that there is a seat availablein the company.
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How to make sustainability a top priority for your next career move

Career Sustainability

To answer this question, we talked to Pierre Peyretou, affiliate professor at ESCP and trainer at La Fresque du Climat.

20 Oct 2022 5 min read
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TL;DR

A way for decision-makers to ensure things don’t escalate: The maximum ‘acceptable loss’

Strategy

Sometimes, projects get out of hand but leaders keep at it. Prof. Frédéric Fréry explains how to put a stop to the ‘escalation of commitment’.

20 Oct 2022 2 min read
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Identifying the right problem is more important than the data: true or false?

Data Strategy

Data expert Guillaume Thfoin weighs in on the importance of identifying what comes first – the data or the problem?

18 Oct 2022 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Food: is the alternative protein revolution ready to stay in the long run?

Innovation Sustainability

With the recent evolution of plant-based and cell-based meats, a new debate comes into play about the long run market presence of these alternative proteins.

13 Oct 2022 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Here’s how companies can truly improve employee happiness

Management #Well-Being

A broad, cross-cultural study found a universal need for managers to address more collective and meaningful aspects of happiness.

10 Oct 2022 4 min read
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TL;DR

If you build the metaverse, will consumers come?

Strategy

Chris Dixon, who is well-versed in all things digital, comments on an article by Ben Voyer asking if the metaverse is like in the movie Field of Dreams: something to wish for.

10 Oct 2022 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How today’s investment portfolios are impacted by ESG policy, market and portfolio construction

ESG Finance

Practical insights from the newly published handbook “ESG Investing and Analysis: A Practitioner’s Guide” by Kartik Chawla, Martina Macpherson & Daniel Ung.

06 Oct 2022 9 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Fact or Fiction: “Every business needs a data scientist.”

Data Management

Prof. Louis-David Benyayer dives into the uncertain need for data scientists in our technologically evolving business environment.

04 Oct 2022 5 min read
TL;DR

Digital colonization: how Big Tech companies use data to enter regulated markets

Data

Louis-David Benyayer takes a look at a scientific paper shedding light on the process by which big tech companies use data to enter regulated markets.

29 Sep 2022 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Creating impact as an LGBT+ leader: the importance of visibility

Inclusion Leadership

LGBT+ Programme Director Stephan Schmuck speaks about the unique challenges and importance of visibility that come with being an LGBT+ leader in the workplace.

27 Sep 2022 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How cross-functional talent can lead to high-impact communications

HR Marketing

An expert in customer experience explains the pros & cons of cross-functional talent versus specialisation in marketing.

23 Sep 2022 6 min read
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TL;DR

“3D printing is no miracle cure for the fashion industry’s unsustainability”

Sustainability Tech

Marlene Hohn and Christian Durach comment on an article claiming that 3D printing could be the key to a sustainable fashion industry.

22 Sep 2022 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

“To successfully integrate AI into strategic decision-making processes, you need a human-centred approach”

AI

Understanding executives’ individual decision-making styles can help companies improve the use of AI in strategic initiatives and overcome flaws in human judgement, according to Christoph Keding and Philip Meissner.

20 Sep 2022 4 min read
People in a crowd
TL;DR

When experts beat the crowd

Strategy

Louis-David Benyayer takes a look at a scientific paper showing that system-generated recommendations are not always more efficient than experts’.

14 Sep 2022 2 min read
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Understanding the flexible consumer lifestyle

Consumption

Laetitia Mimoun and Fleura Bardhi explored how this new generation of consumers manages the challenges associated with serial transitions, and what it means in terms of market opportunities.

14 Sep 2022 5 min read
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TL;DR

“It’s not a matter of how much more resilient global supply chains should become, but how they do it”

#SupplyChain Sustainability

Tra My Le comments on an article published by The Economist claiming that too much supply chain resilience is dangerous.

06 Sep 2022 3 min read
Doctors dressed as superheroes
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Leadership in uncertainty: Lessons from healthcare services

#Covid-19 Leadership

Diana Pérez-Arechaederra reflects on what we can learn from how healthcare leaders dealt with the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic.

05 Sep 2022 5 min read
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Choose to Lead

The Chameleon Leader, the key to leadership in a turbulent world

Leadership ProfessionalDevelopment

We were used to a calm sea to bask in. Now it has become rough and we will have to learn to swim, or risk drowning. As leaders, this means you no longer have a choice but to adapt to each situation.

01 Sep 2022 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

What if Hemingway inspired your customer experience?

Culture CustomerExperience

Customer experience leaders can benefit from literature more than you might think, to anticipate customer impressions and create new experiences.

30 Aug 2022 6 min read
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Choose to Lead

“Be yourself – everyone else is already taken”: Finding your personal brand online (and offline)

Branding ProfessionalDevelopment

What’s the secret to leveraging your image online & offline in a way that remains authentic? ESCP’s The Choice spoke with personal branding experts Géraldine Galindo and Thibault Louis to find out more.

25 Aug 2022 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How to lead a purpose-driven company

Leadership Sustainability

Amidst the global environmental crisis, Groupe Rocher’s CEO, Bris Rocher, has given us his vision of what it means to lead a purpose-driven company towards a goal that goes beyond mere economic success.

23 Aug 2022 5 min read
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TL;DR

Management strategy: three key rules for success

Management Strategy

Frédéric Fréry explains why management models like the BCG Matrix and Blue Ocean Strategy are so successful, and what we can learn from it.

04 Aug 2022 2 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How to transform businesses into agile and participative communities

FutureofWork

The meaning of organisations is changing and Sociocracy can help design businesses that are able to respond to new paradigms like technological advancement and new generations’ expectations in the future workplace.

02 Aug 2022 5 min read
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Their Choice

The sustainable beauty of B Corporations

Strategy Sustainability

Interview with Davide Bollati, Chairman of the Davines Group, about why he chose to be part of the global B-Corp movement for an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy.

28 Jul 2022 6 min read
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Choose to Lead

Bold use of green tech can foster a new era of sustainable growth

Sustainability TechForGood

New green tech, from vertical farming to 3D printing and plant-based meat, can reconcile economic progress with the production limits of our planet, explains Prof. Philip Meissner.

26 Jul 2022 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How do we solve the colossal problems threatening to overwhelm us?

Strategy

For Violette Bouveret, the skill that teams need to acquire in order to face overwhelming challenges and avoid paralysis is the capacity to solve complex problems.

22 Jul 2022 2 min read
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Their Choice

What does it mean to be a learning company?

ContinuousLearning ProfessionalDevelopment

To uncover the opportunities for corporate learning today, we spoke with BNP Paribas’ leaders in learning & development.

19 Jul 2022 4 min read
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How to step out of your comfort zone, grow and thrive, with Andy Molinsky

ProfessionalDevelopment

How can individuals and teams reach their potential by learning to step outside their personal and cultural comfort zones? We spoke with Andy Molinsky, author of Global Dexterity and Reach, to find out

18 Jul 2022 5 min read
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Their Choice

“Lifelong learning makes it possible to stay relevant”

Career Education Leadership

Ken Chan explains why he keeps undertaking graduate studies, even deciding at the start of the global pandemic to pursue a PhD in business while working full-time in demanding leadership roles.

15 Jul 2022 4 min read
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To practice public speaking, “forget about what you want to say”

ProfessionalDevelopment

Public speaking and pitching are must-have skills for every entrepreneur. They are the make-or-break point from finding investors to building your team.

13 Jul 2022 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Volunteering & giving: how to help your employees be leaders in their communities

CSR Leadership

Corporate volunteering has many positive consequences for both employees and companies. Why and how should companies include it in their strategy?

12 Jul 2022 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Lessons from the world’s most sustainable energy companies

Sustainability

Georgia Makridou writes that sustainability does not mean sacrificing profits or putting success on the back burner. On the contrary, the reward is resilience.

11 Jul 2022 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Eco-anxiety, putting a name on what we are all feeling

Media Sustainability

Six ESCP students take a closer look at eco-anxiety and what the media can do about it.

06 Jul 2022 4 min read
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TL;DR

“Many are resigned, and only a few are deserting”

Management Sustainability

Large numbers of resignations are being overshadowed by the controversy around the symptoms of the rupture between young people and the “meaning of work”.

01 Jul 2022 5 min read
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Choose to Lead

Leaders as Chief Truth Officers

Leadership

Professors Jean-Philippe Bouilloud, Ghislain Deslandes and Guillaume Mercier argue that business leaders no longer have a choice but to assume this ambiguous position requiring specific skills.

29 Jun 2022 7 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How to navigate purpose-driven leadership with Prof. Benoît Heilbrunn

Leadership

When it comes to purpose, a lot of companies get lost trying to figure out which direction to take. How can one define purpose? Moreover, the purpose of a brand or company?

28 Jun 2022 6 min read
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Choose to Lead

Global management programmes can help win the escalating ‘talent war’

#HumanResources Management

Talent management practices can be used to retain high performers and high potential, who like other commodities have become even more scarce in these times of economic crisis.

21 Jun 2022 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

What if performance was driven by strategic agility?

How can leaders develop and implement a business strategy that is both suited to market fluctuations and delivers results? Enter strategic agility.

17 Jun 2022 3 min read
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Their Choice

Sustainable investing reimagined

Finance Sustainability

A talk with Mamadou-Abou Sarr, the Co-Founder and President of V-Square Quantitative Management about sustainable investing and what the events of 2022 may bring for its markets.

17 Jun 2022 5 min read
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Choose to Lead

Volunteers are at the frontline of the refugee crisis: here’s how we can help them do a better job

Management Ukraine

Amid the war in Ukraine, there are concrete steps organisations can take to prevent emotional exhaustion within volunteers supporting refugees, write ESCP Business School PhD graduate Charlotte Traeger and Profs. Debbie Haski-Leventhal and Kerstin Alfes.

14 Jun 2022 4 min read
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TL;DR

Blitzscaling strategies, the financial blitzkrieg craze

Strategy

Do you know the story of GoPuff, Gorillas and Getir, among others? Prof. Frédéric Fréry explains how this military doctrine applies to the economic field.

08 Jun 2022 3 min read
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Choose to Lead

Emotional intelligence, leadership and gender equality in the workplace

Leadership

Why do we often associate emotional intelligence with female leadership? Let’s take a closer look at the preconceptions around gender and emotional intelligence.

07 Jun 2022 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Leadership and life in the age of longevity

Leadership Management

Carlos Casanueva reflects on what the Total Leadership model, and work-life synergies, can bring to our ever-longer lives.

02 Jun 2022 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Companies must advocate for LGBT rights everywhere in the world, not just where it’s easy

InclusionDiversity Leadership

Big business can afford to be a force for progress in countries with hostile laws and can make a strong case. Especially as it does not harm their interests.

02 Jun 2022 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Feared or loved? Leaders who embrace vulnerability succeed!

Leadership

The time when a leader needed to look tough and outright cold-blooded on every occasion has gone. Nowadays, people expect leaders to show different qualities, among which self-awareness, empathy and integrity. But what about vulnerability?

01 Jun 2022 5 min read
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Choose to Lead

How to make your business thrive by doing good

Leadership Sustainability

Altruistic enterprises can build prosperous and harmonious societies, while enjoying the profits needed to sustain themselves, argue Laurent Marbacher & Isaac Getz.

26 May 2022 5 min read
TL;DR

“Making mistakes is one of the most important learning tools”

Leadership Management

Ben Voyer comments on an article about the resignation of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, and shares how he sees failure as an educator and researcher.

24 May 2022 3 min read
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Their Choice

Movie industry: Jenna Suru on how to follow your dreams and light the way for others

CareerLessons Media

It’s all about how to get there and how to bridge the gap between your dream and reality.” Jenna Suru is not afraid of challenges. We’ve sat down with her to talk about the movie industry and the many changes it is going through.

20 May 2022 6 min read
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Choose to Lead

The pros and cons of benevolent management

Leadership Management

Ghislain Deslandes and Guillaume Mercier investigated the emergence and practice of benevolence, and teased out some implications for the future of management.

18 May 2022 7 min read
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TL;DR

Want your company to change? Forget management consultancies!

Entrepreneurship Innovation Strategy

Prof. Louis-David Benyayer reflects on an article published by HBR making the case for in-company data.

17 May 2022 2 min read
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Their Choice

Environmental leadership & how to foster change with Deborah Pardo

Leadership Sustainability

When dealing with climate change, it is easy to either embrace denial or pessimism.

16 May 2022 7 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Are our choices aimed at the life we want or the life we want to tell (ourselves)?

Leadership ProfessionalDevelopment

The experiencing self and remembering self do not value the same things. What would our choices look like if we prioritised one over the other?

13 May 2022 7 min read
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TL;DR

Let’s bring humour to work (no kidding)!

Leadership Management

Chiara Succi claims we can learn a lot from research making a serious case for humour in the workplace, but also Mary Poppins!

10 May 2022 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

The Metaverse: how do brands fit into this new ecosystem?

Marketing Tech

In today’s post-social media world, the growing role of the Metaverse is changing the way brands develop their digital strategies. A flash in the pan or a true online revolution? We spoke to ESCP Professors Michael Haenlein and Andreas Kaplan for their thoughts on this emerging space. Michael HaenleinProfessor ESCP Business School Andreas KaplanProfessor ESCP…

09 May 2022 7 min read
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Their Choice

Future of fashion: transforming challenges into opportunities

DigitalTransformation Leadership

The Choice spoke with titan of industry Victor Herrero about his vision and experience with the transformation of the business of fashion.

06 May 2022 5 min read
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TL;DR

Accommodating the shift in employee preferences towards flexible work

FutureofWork RemoteWork

Wioletta Nawrot comments on a study showing that 54% of employees would quit their jobs if not provided post-pandemic flexibility, recommending a gradual transition.

03 May 2022 3 min read
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Choose to Lead

Emotional intelligence and how to use it: selling your EQ at your job interview

Career

Béatrice Kosowski, president of IBM France, shares her thoughts on how recruiters and candidates should address the often vague subject of emotional intelligence at work.

02 May 2022 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Agile methods: how can we stop hyper-focusing on clients, and why?

Innovation

The agile method of the future? Art Thinking is an alternative to traditional client-focused methods. Its application facilitates innovation and allows the user to create the improbable with certainty.

28 Apr 2022 3 min read
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Audio: a pillar of media innovation in 2022?

Marketing Media

We have spoken with Craig Strachan from Amazon podcasts and Joel Ronez from Binge Audio to get tips on how to create a valuable brand podcast experience.

27 Apr 2022 7 min read
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TL;DR

Responsible research can impact our planet’s course

Research Sustainability

There is too little public trust in scientists, but we can do something about it before it’s too late!

27 Apr 2022 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How algorithms have changed the media landscape – for better or worse!

Media Tech

In today’s era of fake news and social media, one subject is on everyone’s lips: algorithms.

25 Apr 2022 6 min read
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Their Choice

An interview with a Chief Poetic Officer

Leadership Media

CEO, CFO, sure, but have you ever heard of a Chief Poetic Officer? Vincent Avanzi discusses the power of poetry in the business world.

20 Apr 2022 6 min read
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TL;DR

From military strategy to corporate strategy

Leadership Strategy

Prof. Frédéric Fréry explains where the analogy between corporate strategy and military strategy comes from, but that business may have more in common with seduction than war.

15 Apr 2022 2 min read
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Choose to Lead

How responsible is your customer experience?

CustomerExperience Sustainability

Professor Isabella Maggioni talks about what a responsible, sustainable customer experience looks like – and the keys to successfully creating one.

13 Apr 2022 7 min read
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TL;DR

Price rises: speculation does not take place only on the stock exchange

#SupplyChain Ukraine

Food & beverage specialist Francesco Venuti comments on the latest developments of the inflation situation in the agri-food sector and beyond.

08 Apr 2022 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

What media will the next presidential elections be played on?

Media Politics

Does TikTok hold the future of political communications? We’ve asked three stakeholders their views on the present relationship between politics and the media.

07 Apr 2022 7 min read
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TL;DR

Lessons of strategy and management from Game of Thrones

Management Strategy

While we wait for the prequel to Game of Thrones, Ghislain Deslandes talks about what managers can learn from the highly popular TV series – or not.

05 Apr 2022 3 min read
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Do we have to set ourselves goals to succeed in life?

Leadership

We repeat over and over again that you must aim high and never give up. If that is the best way to succeed in life, a fundamental question pops up: how should you choose and set such objectives?

04 Apr 2022 7 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Artificial intelligence in managerial decision-making

Tech

While AI does not yet match its cinematic representations, methodologies such as machine learning are turning it into a valuable tool for managers and businesses when it comes to decision-making and creating innovative solutions.

01 Apr 2022 3 min read
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TL;DR

EU Data Act: what impact on value creation?

Europe

Louis-David Benyayer reflects on the new rules proposed by the European Commission on who can use and access data generated in the EU.

31 Mar 2022 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How Italy can bring back its entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship Europe

A look into the future of the Italian business ecosystem and how to attract more entrepreneurs with Marcello Tedeschi.

29 Mar 2022 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Influencer marketing: why your company can’t live without it and what you can do about it

Marketing Strategy

Michael Haenlein and his co-authors explain why Gen Z’s media consumption patterns have given rise to an industry that is here to stay, and what companies should do about it.

28 Mar 2022 7 min read
TL;DR

Play hard, work hard: the metaverse is not just a game

DigitalTransformation Tech

Andreas Kaplan comments on an article claiming that Microsoft bought Activision because “gaming is the new social media.”

25 Mar 2022 4 min read
Firmin Zocchetto, the CEO and co-founder of PayFit, one of France’s latest unicorns
Their Choice

They reached $1 billion valuation, what’s next for the French start-up PayFit?

Entrepreneurship Finance

With PayFit, one of France’s unicorn startups, Firmin Zocchetto hopes to bring innovation to the payroll process of small and medium businesses.

23 Mar 2022 4 min read
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How is the next generation reshaping private banking?

Lombard Odier Group experts share insightful analysis stemming from research by students from ESCP’s two Masters in international wealth management led by Profs. Fahmi Ben Abdelkader and Jean-Philippe Mabru.

22 Mar 2022 4 min read
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TL;DR

Platform growth strategy: From the octopus to the metaverse?

Strategy

Prof. Frédéric Fréry comments on research identifying a growth pattern specific to platforms and wonders if their next evolutionary stage will be the metaverse.

18 Mar 2022 2 min read
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Is emotional intelligence the missing ingredient to your success?

Leadership

How can you encourage the development of emotional intelligence within your company, among employees and managers? We’ve asked two specialists: Véronique Tran, professor at ESCP Business School, and Yohan Ruso, CEO and founder of Praditus.

18 Mar 2022 6 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Supply-chain attacks and the delicate fabric of our IT ecosystem

Strategy #SupplyChain

How business leaders can bolster cybersecurity in the face of a cyber threat.

16 Mar 2022 6 min read
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TL;DR

Can James Bond wait any longer before he switches to Jaguar?

Finance Sustainability

Finance specialist Christophe Thibierge discusses the much-postponed release of the latest James Bond movie and Jaguar’s announcement that it will not be launching any new models before 2025.

11 Mar 2022 4 min read
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TL;DR

“Before considering new debt, Europe should make full use of its common debt”

Europe Ukraine

On the occasion of the EU summit at Versailles, Jérôme Creel suggests an alternative to deal with the economic consequences of the war in Ukraine and to build a “European defence.”

10 Mar 2022 2 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Fighting fake news with extended CSR

Media Sustainability

Erwan Lamy and Isabelle Beyneix claim that this genuine epistemic pollution, which undermines democracy and the trust necessary for the proper conduct of business, should be taken into account just like attacks on the environment and on the social climate.

10 Mar 2022 5 min read
TL;DR

Europe brings Poland into line – others may be next

Europe Strategy Ukraine

Prof. Vincent Smith discusses a column in The Economist saying ‘Polexit’ is unlikely but missing a few points, including recovery from Covid in Hungary and the impact of the war in Ukraine.

08 Mar 2022 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

“Customers expect a smooth & seamless shopping experience”

CustomerExperience Retail

The state of e-commerce with Nathalie Balla, CEO of the leading French retailer La Redoute

08 Mar 2022 6 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Data and the customer experience: getting the best out of big data

CustomerExperience

Correctly leveraged, big data can offer huge benefits to any business, but where to start? We spoke to ESCP Professor Louis-David Benyayer and Glanceable co-founder Arthur Cohen about the potential – and pitfalls – of big data when applied to customer experience.

01 Mar 2022 6 min read
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Going beyond the customer: how to make your strategy human-centric?

CustomerExperience

What should we, as humans in the 21st century, expect from brands and businesses? We explore the idea of a human-centric approach, with Professor of Marketing Charlotte Gaston-Breton.

24 Feb 2022 5 min read
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TL;DR

“Work intensity is a more pressing issue than overtime work”

#HumanResources Leadership Management

Prof. Argyro Avgoustaki discusses an article that blames the ‘Great Resignation’ on overwork, which has increased during the Covid-19 era.

24 Feb 2022 3 min read
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Some of us are ashamed of asking for help, but companies can fix this!

Consumption CustomerExperience

According to Marion Sanglé-Ferrière and Ben Voyer, one person out of three does not dare to turn to the supplier in case of problems. They explain why, and what companies can do to actually help.

22 Feb 2022 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How can green finance respond to the climate emergency?

Finance

While there are ever more COPs being held and new commitments being made–with mixed success–all actors in society need to get involved. The financial sector is no exception.

17 Feb 2022 3 min read
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Choose to Lead

How user-centric co-innovation has been driving digital transformation at Faurecia

CustomerExperience DigitalTransformation

Martin Kupp and Joe Peppard shed light on the digital transformation road map of this global automotive component manufacturer, which has been largely driven by the digitalisation of the customer experience with Accenture.

14 Feb 2022 7 min read
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Their Choice

No one puts this chemist in a corner

Inclusion WomenInBusiness

On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we interviewed MBA alumna and Doctor of chemistry Valérie-Anne Ramis Cladera.

11 Feb 2022 6 min read
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Choose to Lead

Overcoming fair-trade products’ price disadvantage with clever pricing decisions

Marketing Sustainability

Prof. Robert Wilken & PhD student David Bürgin’s research shows that by making consumers aware of their ethicality and sustainability benefits, partitioned pricing can help increase the sales of fair-trade products.

10 Feb 2022 6 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How are tech innovations shaping the future of customer experience?

CustomerExperience Tech

Every business owner knows it: to succeed in an ever-changing world where competition is global, managing to create a meaningful, positive relationship with customers is key. Which many have done by building a quality customer experience and relationship management system. However, these last decades of technological innovation and global change have also shaken to the…

09 Feb 2022 7 min read
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When choice overload makes it too hard to choose

Leadership #Well-Being

We are culturally programmed, in a certain way, to think that freedom of choice will bring us love, prosperity and satisfaction. But is this always the case? Sophie Guignard explains why too many choices makes it hard to choose.

09 Feb 2022 6 min read
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TL;DR

European economy climate stress test: companies have a lot more to lose than the ECB thinks

Sustainability

Although the first climate stress test in the euro area has not really grasped the scale and the true nature of the risks climate change will pose to the economy and businesses, it confirms the need to take them seriously, say Profs. Aurélien Acquier and Jérôme Creel.

08 Feb 2022 3 min read
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Their Choice

Spread love in organisations: interview with Naji Gehchan, co-founder and host of Spreadloveio.com

Leadership

When it comes to business, ‘love’ might not be the first four-letter word that leaps to mind – but for Naji Gehchan, it’s the crucial ingredient in guaranteeing exceptional results.

03 Feb 2022 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Closing the ‘green gap’ to create sustainable value

Sustainability

ESCP Prof. Julien Schmitt provides guidelines for managers and policymakers to reduce this gap between consumers’ positive attitudes toward sustainability and environment protection, and actual consumption behaviours.

03 Feb 2022 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

A full picture of customer preferences and behaviours for 2022

CustomerExperience Tech

The way we interact with brands has changed very quickly over the past few years and even more so since 2019. ESCP alumnus and Customer Experience specialist Julien Hervy outlines some of the key CX trends to note in 2022.

01 Feb 2022 7 min read
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The key to succeeding as an entrepreneur: create a community

Entrepreneurship

When it comes to starting your own business, the first hurdle is often at the very beginning. We talked to experts in entrepreneurship Maëva Tordo and Rand Gerges Yammine on the key to starting out as you mean to go on. The secret? Finding – and building – your community.

01 Feb 2022 5 min read
TL;DR

Lab rats: management misery made in Silicon Valley

Management Tech

Prof. Ghislain Deslandes reviews a book which takes a critical look at some of the modern-day practices of the gig economy.

31 Jan 2022 3 min read
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Their Choice

The future of farming is regenerative agriculture

Sustainability

Interview with Mateusz Ciasnocha, the regenerative farmer from the Ciasnocha Family Farm in Poland’s Żuławy Wiślane region and the CEO of European Carbon Farmers.

21 Jan 2022 7 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

“Consumers need means of escape and self-development”

CustomerExperience #Well-Being

Prof. Charlotte Gaston-Breton explains how consumers’ everyday experiences can regulate the negative feelings induced by the Covid-19 pandemic, and how brands can help improve their well-being.

19 Jan 2022 5 min read
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TL;DR

Don’t look up: when technological ‘opiumism’ leads the way

Innovation Sustainability

PhD candidate Yaëlle Amsallem argues that the movie’s script is not very different from what is happening today.

18 Jan 2022 3 min read
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Choose to Lead

Use emotional intelligence to strengthen your leadership skills

When we study the greatest leaders, they all tend to share a rare and exciting skill: high emotional intelligence. How can an individual inspire others? With emotional intelligence!

12 Jan 2022 2 min read
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Choose to Lead

Is humility the new smart?

Leadership Management

Learning from errors seems to be a key competence in today’s workplace, but how much people actually learn varies quite a bit and much depends on people’s humility, as Prof. Christoph Seckler reveals.

11 Jan 2022 4 min read
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Their Choice

What if you could retire at 33?

CareerLessons

Interview with Victor Lora, a practitioner of frugalism dedicated to helping others retire as early as possible.

04 Jan 2022 4 min read
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Their Choice

Helping refugees by making inclusion a high-value investment for companies

Diversity Entrepreneurship Inclusion

Interview with Théo Scubla, the CEO of each One, a company intent on making a positive impact by creating synergies between refugees and companies.

17 Dec 2021 6 min read
Businessman standing on long road, starting journey ahead.
Choose to Lead

So you want to be an entrepreneur? Here’s how to get started when starting your own business

Education Entrepreneurship

It might sound surprising, but not all entrepreneurship journeys have to start with a business background – or even a well-defined “big idea”. Prof. René Mauer and Niuversity founder Fadi Alshalabi put some of the myths to rest.

16 Dec 2021 7 min read
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Their Choice

“Entrepreneurship is about more than fundraising”

Entrepreneurship Strategy

We spoke to entrepreneur Alexandre Bonetti, CEO and co-founder of French startup Simplébo, about the importance of maintaining an independent approach to entrepreneurship and fundraising.

14 Dec 2021 5 min read
Choose to Lead

“Refugees bring a lot to the table”

Entrepreneurship Uncertainty

In this interview, entrepreneurship expert Yi Dragon Jiang talks about what refugee entrepreneurs teach us about growing a business in the face of disruption.

13 Dec 2021 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Why innovation cannot be prescribed – but should be stimulated

Entrepreneurship Innovation

There is no point in actually instructing individuals or teams to innovate, but an organisation can definitely create the right condition for it. Nico von Delius, Global Finance Director Marketing and Sales at Siemens Electrical Products, and Professor of Entrepreneur René Mauer explain how they did just that.

09 Dec 2021 5 min read
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TL;DR

Innovation must become more inclusive and sustainable

Inclusion Innovation Sustainability

Prof. Rand Gerges-Yammine comments on a video by The Economist showing how covid-19 is boosting innovation.

09 Dec 2021 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Bad decisions put to the test on Mount Everest

Leadership

“I’ve put too much of myself into this mountain to quit now . . .” Author and ESCP alumna Sophie Guignard takes a closer look at why we sometimes make “bad choices” with the example of the fatal 1996 climb of Mount Everest.

06 Dec 2021 6 min read
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Their Choice

Art and entrepreneurship to help those in need: interview with Jo Bautista

#Covid-19 Entrepreneurship

Jo Bautista is an artist and social entrepreneur. In 2020, as Covid-19 disrupted our lives, she launched SendtoGive, a social business that combines art and impact.

02 Dec 2021 5 min read
Julia Koikai, the founder of Odupa.
Choose to Lead

Drawing from female entrepreneurship in rural Kenya – fostering frugal innovation within tribal constraints

Entrepreneurship InclusionDiversity Leadership

Alisa Sydow and Funké Michaels outline how one can learn from Maasai tribeswomen’s example to manage and grow businesses despite challenges.

30 Nov 2021 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Do we still need work friends?

#Well-Being Workplace

With remote work no longer a nice-to-have but a requirement in the new normal, do people still believe in the necessity to make friends at work?

29 Nov 2021 6 min read
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TL;DR

“What they’re not telling you about…” your available brain time.

Media Productivity

As one internet user said over a decade ago, “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.”

26 Nov 2021 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Entrepreneurship as a student, good or bad idea?

CareerLessons Entrepreneurship

According to Julian Ivaldy, Co-founder & Head of Growth at TheSecretCompany.co, everyone can be an entrepreneur: if you are an employee, unemployed, a retiree, a student …

23 Nov 2021 6 min read
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Choose to Lead

The why & how behind personal branding for entrepreneurs

Branding Entrepreneurship

Calling all entrepreneurs, is your personal brand a priority? If not, it should be according to ESCP professors of entrepreneurship Marc Sasserath and Benjamin Voyer.

22 Nov 2021 7 min read
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Their Choice

What minimalism taught me about risk-management as an entrepreneur in the film industry

Entrepreneurship Media

Founder & CEO of Belle Époque Films Jenna Suru shares how she practices minimalism to better manage her business.

17 Nov 2021 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Learning to create value in the highly uncertain post-Covid-19 era

#Covid-19 Entrepreneurship Leadership

To make decisions in such an unpredictable context, and indeed survive and thrive, companies need an exploratory mindset. For that, they must set aside standard risk management and develop tools and methods borrowed from the field of entrepreneurship, where uncertainty is the norm.

10 Nov 2021 5 min read
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Choose to Lead

Three essentials before setting up an intrapreneurship programme

Innovation

Intrapreneurship programmes are an excellent way to accelerate innovation within a firm, but their implementation is not just plug and play. Here are three things Christian Stumpf, Christoph Seckler and Peter Borchers have learned (sometimes the hard way).

09 Nov 2021 5 min read
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Choose to Lead

The pursuit of your Founder-Market Fit

Entrepreneurship Strategy

Lesson #1 from my last 30 months of co-founding companies: the business you create must make sense to your Founder-Market Fit (or Human-Market Fit). This will be a determining factor for your company’s success and your personal fulfillment.

03 Nov 2021 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

With and beyond SDGs: how can businesses adapt to a world of challenges?

CSR SDGs

Luca Osvaldo Uccello, Corporate Social Responsibility Officer at United Nations Global Compact*, French Local Network, and an alumnus of ESCP Business School, shares his take on where businesses stand with the SDGs today.

02 Nov 2021 5 min read
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TL;DR

Facebook’s Metaverse: A nightmare turning into reality?

SocialMedia

ESCP Prof. Andreas Kaplan draws upon his past research on Second Life and virtual worlds to reflect on the potential consequences of Facebook’s Metaverse.

02 Nov 2021 3 min read
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Their Choice

How to create sustainable value? Learn from Interface’s 25-year journey

Leadership Sustainability

Prof. Olivier Delbard explores the key features of this pioneer in the field of corporate sustainability, with a focus on how the company created sustainable value for its stakeholders while radically rethinking and redesigning its business model.

29 Oct 2021 5 min read
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Choose to Lead

The purposeful career: how to do good and attract talents with the UN’s SDGs

Career #HumanResources

How can companies implement successful policies to attract and retain talents who are increasingly sensitive to CSR concerns? In order to find out, we contacted the CEO of Birdeo, a recruitment agency specialised in chasing CSR talents.

28 Oct 2021 5 min read
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Choose to Lead

Set your start-up or firm apart with Sustainable Development Goals

Entrepreneurship SDGs

How can entrepreneurs help achieve the UN SDGs? ESCP Professor Robert Sheldon discusses the implications of sustainability on your business goals.

28 Oct 2021 5 min read
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Choose to Lead

Integrating Sustainable Development Goals within companies’ strategies and corporate reporting

SDGs Strategy

Drawing on the experience of Pepsico and City Developments Limited, Prof. Fabrizio Granà analyses the role organizations can play in promoting and achieving the SDGs, and the potential advantages they can obtain by leveraging the interconnections between these and Integrated Reporting.

27 Oct 2021 5 min read
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Choose to Lead

As a manager, how can I help to implement SDGs at work?

Management SDGs

Ensuring ground-level support for SDGs is crucial. We spoke to two experts in the sustainability field to get their advice on successfully working towards the UN SDGs as a manager

26 Oct 2021 5 min read
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TL;DR

Dominant and arrogant: the truth about leadership

Leadership Management

Prof. Ghislain Deslandes reviews a book on leadership where self-honesty, concern for others and generosity in leadership are all “bullshit”.

21 Oct 2021 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

UN, mobility & data: a dangerous liaison?

SDGs

Are we ready to share our data for the common good of accessible mobility? Roberto Chrétien takes a look at the challenges ahead for UN SDG 11.2.

20 Oct 2021 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Business for degrowth: a flip in perspective for truly sustainable development?

SDGs Sustainability

A recent McKinsey report estimates that €28 trillion will need to be invested in “clean” technologies over the next 30 years to decarbonize Europe – money that would otherwise largely go into carbon-intensive technologies. While redirecting capital in the interest of environmental protection is a supportable approach, McKinsey’s report continues to advocate the logic of…

14 Oct 2021 5 min read
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Choose to Lead

When was the last time you charged your batteries?

Management #Well-Being

ESCP Professor Chiara Succi takes a look at how the digital work environment threatens mental well-being and what we can do to keep our batteries charged.

13 Oct 2021 4 min read
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TL;DR

“The case of Danone does not show that ESG and profitability concerns are incompatible”

Prof. Christophe Thibierge analyses Emmanuel Faber’s dismissal from the shareholders’ point of view thanks to a new tool which could prove useful.

12 Oct 2021 4 min read
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Their Choice

Flying high at HOP

SDGs Tech

In this interview, ESCP Business School PhD candidate Laetitia Vasseur talks about the association she created to oppose planned obsolescence, which is at the origin of Apple being fined €25 million.

08 Oct 2021 6 min read
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Choose to Lead

7 tips to make the most of your remote meetings

Management RemoteWork

With remote meetings not going anywhere anytime soon, how can you make sure your meetings run as smoothly as possible? Specialist in leadership and intercultural management in remote contexts, Béatrice Rivas-Siedel shares a few essential tips to keep in mind.

07 Oct 2021 3 min read
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TL;DR

“The energy market is showing us that ditching fossil fuels is a fantasy”

EnergyTransition Europe

International oil economist Mamdouh G Salameh reacts upon the IEA’s claim that the global energy crisis has nothing to do with Europe’s energy transition plans.

04 Oct 2021 4 min read
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TL;DR

Making decisions in times of uncertainty

Entrepreneurship Uncertainty

Prof. Louis-David Benyayer reflects on a podcast giving some useful pointers for making better decisions in an increasingly uncertain world.

01 Oct 2021 3 min read
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Choose to Lead

Up-skilling, adaptability: why every business needs a learning culture

ContinuousLearning Strategy

Contrary to what one might think, learning is a continuous process that lasts all of our lives and is not limited to our youngest years. To understand how companies can foster a positive learning culture, we called upon the expertise of Sara Scapinello, People & Organization Development Director at Lavazza, and ESCP’s Simon Mercado.

30 Sep 2021 5 min read
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Their Choice

“If you stop learning, your team will stop.” A culture of progress starts with you

ContinuousLearning Leadership

ESCP alumna turned employee Emily Centeno shares how she approaches continuous learning to better herself and her team.

29 Sep 2021 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Human and behavioural skills – must-have tools for the employee of tomorrow?

ContinuousLearning FutureofWork

We speak to entrepreneurship expert Prof. René Mauer and skills coach Marta Carballal to find out how today’s employees can prepare for the workplace of tomorrow.

24 Sep 2021 5 min read
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TL;DR

Offices should be more than just a place to work

FutureofWork Workplace

Profs. Ben Voyer and Emmanuelle Léon exchange views on an article about the growing number of people who have started jobs and left them without having once met their colleagues in person.

22 Sep 2021 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Environmental awareness: a new essential skill for employees?

FutureofWork Sustainability

The workplace of today is greener than ever. So, how important is an environmental mindset for the future of work?

21 Sep 2021 6 min read
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Choose to Lead

How to fail quickly and learn from your mistakes

ContinuousLearning

According to science, failure could indeed, when not downright positive, at least be necessary for us to truly succeed. In fact, a failure-free road to success may not exist.

16 Sep 2021 6 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Why surfing is an antidote to the relentless march of capitalism

Leadership Sports

In a world where transhumanists seek to use technology to save humanity, and even to defeat death, surfing reminds humans of our staggering insignificance, explains PhD candidate Yaëlle Amsallem.

15 Sep 2021 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

In art as in entrepreneurship, creation is nothing without destruction

Entrepreneurship Innovation

All too often, creativity is assumed to be synonymous with the creation of new ideas. But anybody can have an idea. What really matters is the capacity to destroy in order to bring your ideas to life.

14 Sep 2021 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Industry is better prepared for the post-crisis era

DigitalTransformation #Industry4.0

Even if it has been affected in an unprecedented way by the Covid-19 crisis, the industrial sector has shown a remarkable ability to adapt, explains professor Géraldine Galindo.

09 Sep 2021 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Time to reimagine how we lead virtual teams during and post-Covid-19

Leadership RemoteWork

ESCP Business School Prof. Petros Chamakiotis’s research on the topic shows what e-leaders can do to make their teams sustainable and high-performing.

06 Sep 2021 3 min read
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Their Choice

Putting tech at the service of entrepreneurial inclusion, with AirStarter programme

Entrepreneurship InclusionDiversity

Founder of Time2Start, Hawa Dramé shares her take on inclusive entrepreneurship as an avenue for individual and community development, and how she is working to capture this potential.

03 Sep 2021 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

There’s never been a better time to become a lifelong learner

ContinuousLearning

According to Dean Andreas Kaplan, “with the rise of artificial intelligence, automation, and corresponding upskilling, early-life degrees will most likely no longer suffice for the whole of a career.”

02 Sep 2021 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Taking up the field as women: the question of gender equality in sports

Inclusion Sports

Former President of the French Professional Football league Nathalie Boy de la Tour and Adèle Stern, a former high-level athlete (modern pentathlon) and member of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee for Olympic and Paralympic Games, share their experiences and take on gender equality in sports.

19 Aug 2021 6 min read
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TL;DR

How uncertainty can generate opportunities and boost performance

Entrepreneurship Uncertainty

Prof. Louis-David Benyayer takes a look at a scientific paper claiming that although it has bad press, uncertainty can be turned into a performance lever.

17 Aug 2021 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

COVID-19: How the pandemic has made football’s structural problems worse

Finance Sports

The Covid crisis has raised a certain number of fundamental questions about the future of the sport concerning its organisation, its governance and more broadly the viability of clubs’ business models.

10 Aug 2021 6 min read
Their Choice

A generation in search of meaning: inventing tomorrow’s business

CSR GenerationZ

ESCP student and activist Grégoire Cazcarra shares his choice to become a leader in his community and explains what this generation of activists means for the future of work.

03 Aug 2021 4 min read
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TL;DR

Boring brands are better at creating buzz!

Branding Marketing

Prof. Benoît Heilbrunn reviews a study to explain why products and brands that are considered to be boring spark as much buzz as those that are not.

29 Jul 2021 2 min read
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Their Choice

On the importance of family and planet

FamilyBusiness Sustainability

“My career was never what interested me.” Founder of Nature et Découvertes François Lemarchand shares how his love of nature and adventure inspired him to create a shop dedicated to encouraging customers to protect the Earth.

27 Jul 2021 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

The weight of the rule: lessons from sport

CSR Sports

With the issue of health and safety at work even more critical today, how can the way the sports world addresses rules help managers create positive safety behaviours among their teams?

26 Jul 2021 5 min read
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Choose to Lead

Fostering strong brand communities and values through the example of sports

Branding Sports

Chief Brand Officer EGG Group & Head of EGG Sports Olivier Peulvast discusses what makes sports brands unique and what we can all learn from them, whether we are talking eSports, influencers or just good old sports values.

22 Jul 2021 5 min read
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Their Choice

Why we should train the new generation with sports and game-based learning – Play Your Future

Education Sports

Beniamino Savio, CEO of AWE Sport and an ESCP alumnus, shares his passion for education and sports, and how combining both can help young people prepare for the future.

20 Jul 2021 5 min read
TL;DR

The G7 agreement on a 15% minimum global tax rate: a significant step but a long road ahead

Leadership

Financial compliance expert Michel Perez gives The Choice his take on the G7’s tax-rate agreement, and the potential obstacles lying ahead.

13 Jul 2021 4 min read
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Their Choice

From a near-death experience to sustainable tourism: “The time for a change had come.”

Sustainability Tourism

James Wight shares how he went from being stuck on a rowing boat in the middle of the Pacific to founding a company dedicated to responsible adventures.

12 Jul 2021 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Will VR soon replace the open-plan office? A closer look at the post-Covid workplace

FutureofWork RemoteWork

The Covid-19 crisis has propelled remote work from ‘uncommon practice’ to ‘globally accepted way of working’ in just a few months.

09 Jul 2021 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

From the pitch to pitching: what can entrepreneurs learn from athletes?

Entrepreneurship Sports

Sports and entrepreneurship are about achievement, team spirit and persistence – and for both, pitches are essential.

08 Jul 2021 4 min read
TL;DR

Bicycle Race: how Covid-19 changed the bike industry (or not)

#SupplyChain Sustainability

With increased demand and supply chain issues, the pandemic has had an impact on the bike industry the world over. But not always in the ways we imagine.

07 Jul 2021 3 min read
Photo of Joerg Rheinboldt, managing director at APX, a Berlin-based, early-stage start-up investor.
Their Choice

What makes a facilitator of change?

FacilitatorsOfChange

There are those who have the big ideas, and there are the people who help bring these ideas to life. Let’s call them “facilitators of change”.

06 Jul 2021 5 min read
Cristiano Ronaldo vs Cagliari
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

The Future of Football

CustomerExperience Sports

Football has long been a leader in innovation in both sport and society, albeit often reluctantly.

05 Jul 2021 6 min read
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TL;DR

How a movie about a giant modified pig can question our vision of TechForGood

TechForGood

Prof. Aurélien Acquier writes about the science fiction movie Okja, which says a lot about our response to environmental issues.

02 Jul 2021 4 min read
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TL;DR

Leveraging blockchain for financial inclusion

Inclusion

Prof. Alisa Sydow comments on the announcement by UNICEF of the first cohort of blockchain investments building solutions toward financial inclusion to receive funding. To her, blockchain-based applications have great potential provided aspects of sustainability are integrated in their development.

02 Jul 2021 2 min read
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TL;DR

Why LGBT+ inclusion is a key to long-term success in business

Inclusion Management

Diversity in the workplace is only one part of the equation for successful business performance, the other being actively creating an inclusive environment where employees can express their authentic selves.

01 Jul 2021 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

The smartness of cities lies in its citizens

SDGs Tech

Prof. Ben Voyer looks at the role of citizens, who often took the back seat to technology in smart city projects, and how the pandemic may have helped change this.

29 Jun 2021 3 min read
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Choose to Lead

TechForGood: what can we really do with technology to achieve good?

TechForGood

How can business leaders create meaningful change through technology? We take a closer look at the TechForGood movement with two ESCP professors Aurélien Acquier & Terence Tse.

29 Jun 2021 6 min read
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Choose to Lead

Japan’s Study Sapuri: Edtech to the rescue

Education Tech

In the wake of Covid-19, edtech companies were quick to turn a crisis into an opportunity. Japan’s Study Sapuri is a case in point.

29 Jun 2021 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Privacy in the face of IoT

Prof. Sandrine Macé explains why a privacy-by-design approach must be taken to build connected objects with a view to privacy-protecting connectivity.

28 Jun 2021 4 min read
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Their Choice

Sustainability in Fashion: Taking steps off the Runway

Sustainability TechForGood

Following the success of their SPF Runway competition, ESCP students reflect on the sustainability challenges facing the fashion industry and where new technologies can make a difference with the example of Staiy.

28 Jun 2021 5 min read
People celebrating at a Pride parade.
Choose to Lead

“It was now the time to feel free and to be able to bring my whole self to work”

Inclusion Leadership

What can business leaders do to make sure they are creating an environment where every employee feels comfortable being themselves? To answer this question and more, The Choice spoke to Dame Inga Beale.

25 Jun 2021 4 min read
Digital photo of the Nordic Harvest vertical farming system.
Their Choice

We met the founder of Europe’s largest vertical farm

Sustainability TechForGood

Three ESCP students are on a tour of Europe to uncover sustainable agricultural practices to feed a growing population. First stop, Denmark’s Nordic Harvest.

24 Jun 2021 4 min read
TL;DR

A SPAC dream come true?

Prof. Hamed Ghiaie and his co-author explain why this new investment vehicle has the wind in its sails despite the economic situation, as illustrated by what recently happened with WeWork or the songs devoted to it by a rap artist/investor.

23 Jun 2021 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Better, more inclusive education: how will edtech reinvent the way we learn

Education Tech

“At some point last year, 1.6 billion students, and as many parents, have experienced edtech solutions in some shape or form.” CEO of EdTechX, Benjamin Vedrenne-Cloquet shares his take on the future of edtech.

23 Jun 2021 6 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How can big data help to understand, apprehend and control a pandemic?

#BigData TechForGood

Covid-19 is unlikely to be the last pandemic the world will see. But what if big data could make it possible to identify the emergence of a new disease and predict its capacity to become a pandemic?

22 Jun 2021 7 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

“Deep tech can have a profound effect on the future of our civilization”

In this interview, Prof. Martin Kupp explains why he decided to co-found a start-up aiming to make clean energy reliable and affordable with an EMBA student, and thus contribute to moving deep tech out of the lab.

21 Jun 2021 4 min read
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Their Choice

“People tell me: your charts help me understand the situation”

#BigData #Covid-19

Interview with Elias Orphelin, a 22-year-old student who took to Twitter to help France better understand the pandemic thanks to data visualisation.

18 Jun 2021 5 min read
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Choose to Lead

How to successfully integrate social robots and AI into your business

AI CustomerExperience

Prof. Hector Gonzalez explains which factors organisations should consider in order to make the most of these technologies’ potential advantages.

15 Jun 2021 4 min read
Photo of a young woman, Generation Z, thinking while she works.
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

3 motivational levers behind Gen Z’s choices in the workplace

GenerationZ Workplace

The individuals of Generation Z are the future workforce. But what do they think about the existing situation and what do they want to change? Are they trying to shape the future?

11 Jun 2021 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

AI for good: The case of using the technology for ESG

AI

Prof. Terence Tse argues that AI could provide more accurate and timelier ESG-related data, which could in turn help improve the various ESG indices and enable investors to make more informed investment decisions in companies that are truly ESG-compliant.

09 Jun 2021 5 min read
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TL;DR

Human consciousness challenged by data

AI

Prof. Ghislain Deslandes reviews a book which examines what might happen to the world when old myths are coupled with new godlike technologies, such as artificial intelligence and genetic engineering.

09 Jun 2021 3 min read
A teenage girl and mother teaching the grandmother how to use a tablet.
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

“The crisis has led to a general awakening to the challenges of digital inclusion”

#Covid-19 Inclusion Tech

To understand the challenges surrounding digital and social inclusion, The Choice met with Jean Deydier, CEO of WeTechCare, a social start-up aiming to close the digital divide.

07 Jun 2021 6 min read
TL;DR

Non-fungible tokens are transforming art for good

Culture NFT

Prof. Michael Haenlein comments on an article from the New York Times about the ‘NFT Mania’ gathering pace.

03 Jun 2021 3 min read
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Their Choice

Like any adventure, I didn’t know exactly where it would lead.

#SocialEntrepreneurship

Founder of 20 Questions to the World, Cyril Bruyelle shares his choice to go out in the world and discover what unites us as humans, rather than what divides us.

02 Jun 2021 4 min read
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TL;DR

An opportunity to rebuild cities better than before

RealEstate Workplace

Real estate expert Francesca Heathcote comments on an article claiming that the pandemic economy has accelerated the need to reinvent the office market.

01 Jun 2021 2 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

“An opportunity to rethink what we do in the office and what we do remotely”

FutureofWork Management

Professor Emmanuelle Léon discusses the pandemic’s impact on the way we work. Where are businesses today and what challenges are to come? Stick with us to find out.

31 May 2021 6 min read
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Choose to Lead

Slasher culture and side hustles: getting to grips with the world of freelancing

CareerLessons FutureofWork

The current pandemic has changed the way many of us work, with freelance working enjoying significant time in the spotlight. Feeling nervous about taking the plunge? Let’s get a closer look at freelancing in the age of COVID.

28 May 2021 6 min read
Group of office employees at coworking center.
Choose to Lead

How do you bring employees back to the office – and do you want to?

FutureofWork HR

When the pandemic is finally over, will we be going back to the office like before? Alain d’Iribarne, an economist specialised in work-related sociology, along with Kévin Duchier, HR Director of Germinal, provide some insights.

27 May 2021 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

The Real Intelligence Behind Artificial Intelligence: Collaboration

AI Innovation

A tool by itself is useless. It takes a person to make the most out of it. Artificial intelligence as it stands today is nothing more than a tool.

25 May 2021 3 min read
A group of business people assembling jigsaw puzzle. The concept of cooperation, teamwork, help and support in business.
TL;DR

Family business: a double-edged structure

FamilyBusiness Leadership

Inspired by a 2020 survey from Deloitte, Victoria Chantron, ESCP student and writer for Streams, outlines some of the greatest challenges and opportunities facing family businesses.

21 May 2021 2 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Investigating the future of the workplace with Aircall

FutureofWork

Jonathan Anguelov launched Aircall in 2014 with his co-founder Olivier Pailhes. Were they thinking they would revolutionise the way people make phone calls back then? Maybe. What they could not foresee was the way a global pandemic would likely change forever how we work and communicate.

20 May 2021 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Suspending vaccine patents: What the pandemic tells us about generosity and politics

#Covid-19 Innovation

Prof. Frédéric Jallat analyses President Joe Biden’s support to wave off intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines, and what it says about world geopolitics.

19 May 2021 4 min read
TL;DR

Logistics workers keeping the global supply chain moving can also disrupt it

Management #SupplyChain

Prof. Valentina Carbone & PhD candidate Tra-My Le review a book showing how these workers constituting the backbone of supply chains can use their power to resist poor working conditions.

18 May 2021 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How is COVID-19 impacting the future of work in Asia?

FutureofWork

Managing Partner of McKinsey’s Vietnam office, Bruce Delteil emphasizes the importance of reskilling and upskilling displaced workers in Asia in preparation for the “next normal”.

17 May 2021 3 min read
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Choose to Lead

How sustainable will your corporate travel be post-Covid?

Sustainability

With a long road to recovery ahead, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented the opportunity for companies to reconsider their business travel habits and develop sustainable travel policy guidelines.

12 May 2021 5 min read
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TL;DR

The future of online education will take place in Learning eXperience Platforms

DigitalTransformation Education

By bridging the gap between the worlds of education and business, Learning Experience Platforms rethink the learning experience with more human interaction through advanced digital tools.

11 May 2021 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

To demonstrate their commitment, remote workers are making themselves more available than ever

#Covid-19 Management

Prof. Emmanuelle Léon and her research associates have shown that in a context where physical presence is still highly valued, employees are extending their working hours to gain the trust of their superiors.

10 May 2021 5 min read
Photo of a man looking at a computer with his hands in the air indicating that he is talking.
Choose to Lead

Negotiation 2.0: 4 tips to succeed in negotiations online

Negotiation

Negotiation may look completely different in the world of virtual meetings, but they can deliver plenty of advantages.

08 May 2021 6 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

To achieve its biodiversity strategy, “the EU must be ambitious and irreproachable”

Europe Sustainability

Following ESCP’s 2021 Designing Europe seminar, we spoke with a few participants about the opportunities at stake for Europe in terms of biodiversity.

07 May 2021 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Is the family name really a heritage?

Branding FamilyBusiness

“The first major brands dating from the 19th century are practically all family names.” ESCP Professor Benoît Heilbrunn takes us on a journey into the world of patronymic brands.

05 May 2021 6 min read
Fabric Hope from Vitale Barberis Canonico
Choose to Lead

Resilience, long-term vision and strong corporate culture: the Henokien recipe for success

FamilyBusiness

What can we learn from an over 300-year-old family business? Interview with Francesco Barberis Canonico of Vitale Barberis Canonico and member of the Henokiens.

04 May 2021 5 min read
TL;DR

Corporate globalisation is an imaginary enemy!

Prof. Régis Coeurderoy comments on the global coverage of the merger between Suez and Veolia, going against the flow of false beliefs spread about the few, vulnerable global firms by the Don Quixotes of this world.

04 May 2021 2 min read
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Their Choice

A work life without the office

FutureofWork Workplace

As we slowly move towards a post-Covid recovery, how can the office, co-working and working from home come together? Leonid Goncharov, the founder and CEO of Anticafé, a network of coworking café spaces, provides some answers.

03 May 2021 4 min read
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Their Choice

Managing a family wine estate in Burgundy

FamilyBusiness Leadership

For Erwan Faiveley, managing director of his family’s wine estate, family tradition is not a burden “but an opportunity, because having such a strong family name is an asset in the wine world.”

30 Apr 2021 5 min read
Antoine Riboud - Danone
TL;DR

The Danone controversy raises questions about the meaning of CSR

CSR Strategy

According to ESCP Prof. Jean-Marc Daniel, the toppling of former Danone CEO Emmanuel Faber illustrates the limitations of certain ideological assumptions.

28 Apr 2021 3 min read
Bottles of Chinzari, Italian family business and producer of fine liqueurs.
Their Choice

The time came to decide: give it up or start the family business again?

Entrepreneurship FamilyBusiness

In 2018, Giulia Colangeli and her sister Caterina decided to re-open the family liqueur factory originally founded by their great-great-grandfather in 1937. Giulia tells us about Chinzari and the challenges ahead for her family business.

26 Apr 2021 5 min read
Photo of the Maschinenraum community brainstorming together in a room with a whiteboard.
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

“Creating a desirable future through co-creation and co-innovation”

DigitalTransformation FamilyBusiness

Like all companies, family businesses have to undergo transformations to stay competitive. Tobias Rappers from Maschinenraum explains how family-run businesses can create a brighter future for generations to come.

22 Apr 2021 6 min read
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TL;DR

Entrepreneur, from father to son?

FamilyBusiness Leadership

Prof. Frédéric Fréry comments on a publication by Henry Mintzberg who admittedly is “a fan of family business, if only it could resolve its problems of succession…”

21 Apr 2021 3 min read
Picture of three young women sitting around a table, talking and laughing.
Their Choice

“Diversity is not a threat to excellence, but a reinforcement”

Education Inclusion

Chief Conduct Officer Marguerite Burghardt shares her view on the convictions it takes to be a leader, where more work is needed for diversity in business, and why inclusion starts with education.

20 Apr 2021 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Is bringing the next generation into your family business something you should want?

FamilyBusiness Leadership

Profs. Alisa Sydow and Chiara Succi provide some helpful, concrete tips for those who really want their children to enter the family business.

20 Apr 2021 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Family firms’ need for control and equity financing decisions

FamilyBusiness Finance

Family firms can attract investor interest, yet owners are often reluctant to offer equity. Prof. Martin Kupp explains that two of the key issues are concerns of potential interference and emotions.

19 Apr 2021 4 min read
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TL;DR

Taxi rides go a long way towards explaining the overwork culture

#Well-Being Workplace

Through original research, Prof. Vasudevan confirms the doubts raised by a recent article from the Financial Times about excessive workload in banks.

16 Apr 2021 3 min read
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Choose to Lead

How can family businesses teach us to be better entrepreneurs?

Entrepreneurship FamilyBusiness

Profs. Alisa Sydow and Francesco Rattalino teamed up to explain why and how entrepreneurs can steal a page from the European family firm book to transform the Covid-19 crisis into opportunities and write a more sustainable future.

15 Apr 2021 7 min read
Photo of someone taking a picture of a Vincent VanGogh portrait in a museum.
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Taking a “social first” approach to art

Culture CustomerExperience

Founder of Art From Future, Jessica Soueidi shares her take on why the art sector needs to reach Millennials & Gen Z customers and how to do it.

14 Apr 2021 6 min read
One hand passing a heart to another hand. Illustrating the idea of caring.
Choose to Lead

“Any employee can become a carer”

Inclusion Workplace

In France, one in four employees will become caregivers at some point in their lives. So, how will this impact the workplace in the years to come? We spoke to Caroline Mac Naughton, co-founder of Caring Company Project, to hear her thoughts on how businesses need to adjust to this growing phenomenon.

13 Apr 2021 6 min read
Two people using the StayTouch mobile application to connect after a meeting.
Their Choice

When yesterday’s visions become today’s solutions

#Covid-19 Entrepreneurship

Interview with the founder of StayTouch, Gaurav Goel, on how his business discovered a new kind of relevance in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic.

07 Apr 2021 5 min read
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TL;DR

How can family business drive the post-Covid recovery?

#Covid-19 FamilyBusiness

Prof. Francesco Rattalino comments on an article reasserting the established fact that family firms tend to do well in disasters and explains how their example could help.

06 Apr 2021 2 min read
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Choose to Lead

Women in tech continue to hit a glass ceiling. Wait, really?

InclusionDiversity Tech

Did you know only 11% of women hold leadership positions in the design field? The Choice spoke with Olga Voskoboinikova, Product Design Team Lead and alumna of ESCP’s Women in Leadership programme, about how she beat the odds and how we can help other women do the same.

31 Mar 2021 6 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Have you heard of ICT Sustainability?

Sustainability Tech

ICT Sustainability, ICT for Sustainability, Green ICT, Sustainable ICT, Sustainable IT, Green IT, Green for IT, Green by IT, Green by Use, Inclusive IT, Sustainable HCI: No matter what you call it, we need to be talking about it.

29 Mar 2021 7 min read
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Improving intercultural competencies through serious games

Marion Festing and Tobias Schumacher explain how intercultural competences are conventionally developed and why serious games are a highly promising endeavour to complement or even substitute these pathways.

29 Mar 2021 5 min read
Benjamin Louis
Their Choice

“Disability is not a fatality but an asset”

InclusionDiversity Sports

Visually impaired at birth, Benjamin Louis devotes his days to promoting inclusion among people with disabilities. He talks about his personal journey and his desire to drive change, particularly through sport.

25 Mar 2021 5 min read
AI code of ethics
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Just Like Us, Machines have Biases. But This Can Change.

InclusionDiversity Tech

Since human bias is at the source of the discrimination, a way to reduce it may be to teach the engineers who are doing the AI programming.

25 Mar 2021 3 min read
TL;DR

Why do we need to change the faces of success?

Diversity Leadership

ESCP graduate N’Geur Sarr reacts to a McKinsey report showing that the business case for inclusion and diversity is stronger than ever.

24 Mar 2021 2 min read
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Choose to Lead

Women in academia – still a long way toward gender equality and inclusion

Education InclusionDiversity

There is a lot of work left to reach gender equality and inclusion in academia among other trades, and room for initiatives like CYGNA, writes Prof. Argyro Avgoustaki.

24 Mar 2021 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Reveal cognitive diversity’s potential: Free the ghost in the cupboard

InclusionDiversity

EMIB student David Marcouly tells a gifted girl’s story, and what it says about cognitive diversity in the workplace.

23 Mar 2021 6 min read
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Choose to Lead

Why is neurodiverse talent overlooked and what can businesses do about it?

Diversity #HumanResources

For Prof. Daniela Lup, inclusive practices for hiring and promoting neurodiverse talent can bolster creativity and innovation.

22 Mar 2021 6 min read
Tourists overlooking a destination.
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

A tourism destination represents a microcosm of global issues

Sustainability Tourism

To understand the evolution of the tourism sector in the last few decades and where it might be headed in the post-covid world, we’ve interviewed Agnès Weil, Head of Sustainability at Club Med and General Delegate of the Club Med Foundation.

19 Mar 2021 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Religious diversity in the workplace: toward an exemplary management system?

InclusionDiversity Workplace

Companies are increasingly faced with religious demands at a global level. Prof. Géraldine Galindo and her co-author assess the tools that corporations have been trying to design in order to address this sensitive issue.

18 Mar 2021 5 min read
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TL;DR

A critique of the tyranny of metrics and figures

Analytics Management

Prof. Ghislain Deslandes reviews The Tyranny of Metrics, a book about how the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government – and the quality of our lives.

18 Mar 2021 3 min read
Women looking at diverse profiles for HR recruitment process.
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

“We still have work to do on inclusion, on hiring talents with different capabilities”

Diversity #HumanResources

“Companies must work so that the diversity of the communities in which they operate is reflected in their workforce and value chain.” Coca-Cola’s HR Director for Iberia, Marta Muñoz Ledesma, shares her experience of diversity and inclusion in recruitment as well as the initiatives and projects to promote these topics in a company’s daily life.

17 Mar 2021 4 min read
Illustration of gender pay gap with money and seesaw
Choose to Lead

The psychology of salary negotiation for women

Leadership WomenInBusiness

The final step in breaking the gender pay gap should be taken by women. Here is a step-by-step guide for women on how to do this.

16 Mar 2021 7 min read
ESCP Business School Executive Education roundtable
TL;DR

Making the case for women in times of crisis

#Covid-19 WomenInBusiness

“Men alone cannot build another world. We have to do it together.” Key takeaways from ESCP Business School’s Executive Education roundtable on International Women’s Day 2021.

16 Mar 2021 3 min read
"Wake up, kick ass, repeat." Photo by Justin Veenema/Unsplash.
Choose to Lead

Unleashing the talent of a brain wired differently

InclusionDiversity

A neurodivergent professional born and raised in Verona, Italy, Tommaso Davi tells his story: how his learning difference made him a “fighter”, and acknowledging it gave him the freedom to be his authentic self.

14 Mar 2021 7 min read
The power of representation & imitation of women leaders on social media.
Choose to Lead

“She did it, so I can do it too.”

SocialMedia WomenInBusiness

Imitation is an extremely powerful social behaviour. In a media landscape increasingly dominated by social media, how can we view the voices of leaders, in all their diversity, as a true social responsibility?

10 Mar 2021 4 min read
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TL;DR

Deep learning: a game changer for marketing analytics. Or is it?

Prof. Vafainia takes a look at an article from the MIT Sloan Management Review discussing the performance of deep learning methods compared to traditional ones, and its ability to accurately predict consumer choices.

10 Mar 2021 2 min read
Diversity cannot succeed without inclusion. Hands side by side on a table.
Choose to Lead

Inclusion and Diversity, not the other way around

InclusionDiversity

ESCP’s Associate Dean for Inclusion and Diversity, Cécile Kharoubi shares her take on why some companies’ D&I policies fail. “They have focused on diversity and forgotten about inclusion.”

09 Mar 2021 3 min read
Andreas Kaeshammer, global Head of Football at Infront Sports & Media AG
Their Choice

An insight into the world of football and media

CareerLessons Sports

Interview with Andreas Kaeshammer, the newly-appointed global Head of Football at Infront Sports & Media AG.

09 Mar 2021 6 min read
Chiara Corazza, Managing Director of the Women’s Forum
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

“We have to act now to embrace inclusion and diversity in women’s leadership”

Leadership WomenInBusiness

Chiara Corazza, Managing Director of the Women’s Forum for The Economy & Society, assesses the global challenges women face today and how together we can remove the boundaries to a fairer future.

04 Mar 2021 7 min read
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Choose to Lead

Let’s close the policy-practice gap of LGBTQ+ diversity management

Diversity Management

LGBTQ+ diversity management is happening here and now. In leaving the gap open, we’re missing an important opportunity for both employees and the employer.

03 Mar 2021 4 min read
L’Orbe Vodka x Caviar, from Pernod Ricard - Breakthrough Innovation Group
Their Choice

Behind the scenes with the intrapreneur who created the vodka x caviar

Entrepreneurship Lifestyle

The creative mind behind L’Orbe, a caviar-infused vodka from Pernod Ricard’s Breakthrough Innovation Group, Shéhrazade Schneider shares how she tackled entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship to leverage the best of both worlds.

02 Mar 2021 4 min read
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TL;DR

Helping France relaunch pharmaceutical innovation

Prof. Frédéric Bizard explains that the pandemic showed the country of Pasteur seriously lags behind in pharmaceutical innovation. His call for the creation of “an Airbus of messenger RNA” was answered by the French government not long after, though.

01 Mar 2021 2 min read
Young female traveler in international airport
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Will travel be business as usual?

FutureofWork

Even post-pandemic, it is likely that the ‘normal’ we all know may never return. Businesses will need to reflect on their travel policy and weigh up the costs, risks and environmental impact.

26 Feb 2021 4 min read
Visit Britain
Choose to Lead

The place to be: lessons in branding from the tourism & travel industry

Branding Tourism

Marketing expert Shirley Liu explores some examples of brands that have successfully marketed their destinations and differentiated themselves in this highly competitive industry.

26 Feb 2021 6 min read
Bocas del Toro, Feature photo by Camilo Pinaud/Unsplash
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

The end of the old beginnings: drawing authentic paradises

Sustainability Tourism

The tourism industry can help us build a cleaner and fairer future, but traditional models need a reset. ESCP Professor Lola Herrero takes a deep dive into what “authentic paradises” could look like.

25 Feb 2021 7 min read
Quantum computing: the ultimate digital transformation?
TL;DR

Quantum computing: the ultimate digital transformation?

DigitalTransformation Tech

At a time when Google claims to have the first “quantum computer”, we are allowed to dream. But to turn this dream into reality is a question of being able to achieve quantum supremacy and become a leader…

24 Feb 2021 3 min read
Treble Cone Station with a view of Lake Wānaka, NZ © Armelle Solelhac
Their Choice

A career at the summit

Leadership Tourism

It does not take long for Armelle Solelhac to admit that she has the ultimate dream job: “I’m a consultant for mountain resorts and outdoor tourism”. For The Choice, Armelle discusses the choices she made on her climb to the top.

22 Feb 2021 5 min read
“Travel the World in Berlin” by Berta Luise Heide © Daniel Kessler
Their Choice

Why run when you can walk?

Entrepreneurship Tourism

“Everything is so hectic. Why would you run on your day off?” That’s the question Berta Luise Heide is asking. The founder of WALK THIS WAY explains how she started her business, survived 2020, and what she sees for the future of her industry.

19 Feb 2021 6 min read
"Boat-In" at Paris Plage © MK2
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

“I don’t see cinema dying”

#Covid-19 Culture

For months, cinemas have been closed, raising concerns about the future of these popular cultural institutions. For The Choice, Elisha Karmitz, CEO of MK2, assesses the state of the industry today and how to meet the challenges ahead.

17 Feb 2021 6 min read
Professional chef serving dishes in a guest's home. © La Belle Assiette
Their Choice

The Restaurant Age is not over

Lifestyle Strategy

“We’re still social animals despite these pandemic scars.” Co-founder of La Belle Assiette, Giorgio Riccò shares the strategic vision that has led to more than one successful food business and allowed them to withstand a global pandemic.

16 Feb 2021 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Sustainable tourism post pandemic: How can luxury help?

Sustainability Tourism

Can the tourism industry re-shape tourists’ mindsets for the long term to adopt more sustainable behavior? If so, perhaps the luxury industry can help!

16 Feb 2021 3 min read
Exhibition “Furusiyya: The Art of Chivalry between East and West” organized by Louvre Abu Dhabi, Musée de Cluny and France Muséums in 2020
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How museums can turn a crisis into an opportunity to reconnect with visitors

#Covid-19 Culture

As a result of the pandemic, cultural organisations have had to focus primarily on the digital space. Stéphane-Arnaud Roisin, Deputy CEO of France Muséums, talks about the major changes occurring in the way we engage with culture.

12 Feb 2021 6 min read
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Gen Z & Tiktok: Embrace them or be left behind

SocialMedia Strategy

Co-Founder of marketing agency PlayTheHype, and a Gen-Zer himself, Joshua Bach knows exactly what it takes for brands to stand out on TikTok and connect with his generation.

12 Feb 2021 5 min read
Woman folding her clothing.
TL;DR

The fashion supply chain needs a reset for sustainability

Innovation Sustainability

Addressing the environmental impact of fashion will require major evolutions in the mindset and habits of designers, fashion players and consumers. Though innovation can help.

09 Feb 2021 3 min read
Growing ripples in water. Skipping stones.
Choose to Lead

Everything’s changing – or is it?

#Covid-19 Strategy

The early reaction of hotels to sharing-economy platforms, and the way Airbnb handled the Covid-19 pandemic, shows managers how they should respond to changes.

08 Feb 2021 5 min read
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Their Choice

Choosing to follow your convictions and influence an industry

CareerLessons Sustainability

Growing up with a father who was a chef, Roxane Clément felt working for a great player in the food industry was an alternative path to have a role in this industry that is so essential to our lives.

04 Feb 2021 5 min read
Three co-workers working together on the same screen. Feature photo by John Schnobrich on Unsplash.
Choose to Lead

Engagement: the key to an unforgettable learning experience

ContinuousLearning

Creating a memorable experience with engagement is crucial to maintaining a connection with learners, whether in a hybrid or digital learning environment.

03 Feb 2021 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Happiness economics: Is it really all about money?

Strategy #Well-Being

Whether young or old, people’s happiness equally benefits from certain non-economic factors. Wealth and income are important but not self-sufficient.

03 Feb 2021 6 min read
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Choose to Lead

It’s not rocket science, it’s well‑being science!

Marketing #Well-Being

Today, marketing managers have to provide positive experiences of consumption that move beyond functional and rational expectations to strengthen the relationship between customers and brands.

02 Feb 2021 4 min read
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash. Two businessmen working together.
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Corporate clients deserve a proper customer experience strategy

B2B Strategy

Today, tracking your Amazon parcel or the delivery of an industrial machine is expected to be equally simple. B2B customers desire a quality experience too.

01 Feb 2021 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Comfort, well‑being, quality of life, what if biodiversity was the answer!

#Well-Being Workplace

Bringing biodiversity and nature into the workplace, a win-win for the environment and employee well-being.

29 Jan 2021 4 min read
Business team working together on creative concept
Choose to Lead

In Search of Well‑Being? Practice Creativity!

#Well-Being

Not only does creativity benefit from well-being, but it may also promote it by challenging us to accomplish more and to do better.

29 Jan 2021 6 min read
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Choose to Lead

Well-being and employee productivity: A happy worker is a productive worker

#Well-Being

The happy worker–productive worker hypothesis suggests that employees high in well-being also perform well. Therefore, it is possible that if we understand employee well-being, we will also understand how employees can become more productive.

28 Jan 2021 4 min read
Photo by Simon Abrams on Unsplash
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Flexible working & well-being: what remains unanswered?

FutureofWork #Well-Being

While the pandemic has given some companies the push they needed to adopt flexible working, much remains unanswered when it comes to employee well-being.

27 Jan 2021 4 min read
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Student well-being in the time of COVID-19

Education #Well-Being

Despite the wonders of videoconferencing, students in the time of COVID-19 are relatively isolated from their professors and from each other, leading to an overall negative impact on their well-being.

26 Jan 2021 5 min read
Cozy place at home for working remotely
Their Choice

A French in the land of danish well-being

#Well-Being

Caroline Ferrari, French Ambassador to Denmark, discusses one of the most famous words in Danish, Hygge. And looks at how this philosophy of well-being can be a source of inspiration today.

25 Jan 2021 4 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

The science of well-being in retail

Retail #Well-Being

Prof. Isabella Maggioni discusses the ongoing stream of research investigating how key aspects of the shopping experience impact shoppers’ overall sense of well-being and contribute to their quality of life.

21 Jan 2021 4 min read
A day without pleasure is a day lost.
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

“Why am I here?”: Rekindling Meaning & Work

FutureofWork #Well-Being

They say that at one‘s grave, nobody wishes to have spent more days at the office. Imagine people did.

21 Jan 2021 3 min read
Conversation between ESCP Professors Benoît Heilbrunn and Philippe Gabilliet
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Well-being, the eternal quest for balance

#Well-Being

Benoît Heilbrunn and Philippe Gabilliet are both professors at ESCP. But each has a different take on well-being, particularly when it comes to the world of work.

20 Jan 2021 8 min read
Photo by CoWomen on Unsplash. Two women working together.
Choose to Lead

Top Management and Millennials: Towards an inspiring and caring leadership

Management

Old management methods no longer work. By 2025, roughly 75% of the global workforce will be Millennials; in other words, a major force to be reckoned with.

19 Jan 2021 3 min read
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Their Choice

“Keep Learning”: Career lessons from an oncologist

CareerLessons

Keep learning, whatever your age or previous experience. That’s the view of Chadi Saba, an oncologist working in one of the leading pharmaceutical companies. At 46, he has just received an Executive MBA Global Track from ESCP and ESA Beirut.

14 Jan 2021 4 min read
Group bridge concept and building connections as a business success by joining teams together with 3D illustration.
Choose to Lead

Social Procurement: A Missing Link in Corporate Activism

CorporateActivism

When social procurement supports the same cause as that of corporate activism, it can complement such movements by creating authenticity and greater impact.

12 Jan 2021 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

The liberated company goes well beyond well-being

FutureofWork #Well-Being

For Isaac Getz, some companies have been able to create the conditions for a good life by changing the nature of relations between employees, not by introducing perks or wellness programmes.

07 Jan 2021 4 min read
Malene Rydahl is a former executive in corporate communication and currently a writer, speaker and executive coach specializing in happiness, well-being and management.
Choose to Lead

Approaching 2021 with a “realistic optimistic frame of mind”

#Well-Being

Around the world, Malene Rydahl shares her expertise on happiness, well-being & performance in business. For The Choice, she discusses how to approach these topics in 2021.

06 Jan 2021 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Five core challenges to creating circular supply chains

CircularEconomy

Though the “reverse” supply chain is nothing new for business, are our supply chains truly equipped for a circular economy?

18 Dec 2020 3 min read
Tiktok on Smart Phone Screen. Young Girl Pointing or Texting Mobile Phone During a Pandemic Self-Isolation and Coronavirus Prevention.
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

2020: The right time for TikTok

SocialMedia

Between the pandemic lockdown and social unrest, 2020 was an important year for social media. For The Choice, Michael Haenlein, Professor of Marketing at ESCP, looks at the past year and future challenges of social media platforms.

17 Dec 2020 5 min read
Man buying something with a credit card online. Photo by rupixen.com on Unsplash.
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Black Friday: Retail Heaven or Supply Chain Surge?

Retail

Can you imagine the future of Black Friday after Covid-19? For The Choice, BearingPoint UK Partner, Stuart Higgins looks at how retailers can meet online demand while making a profit.

17 Dec 2020 5 min read
Trees growing on coins, sustainable finance
Choose to Lead

A first (easy?) step for sustainability in corporate finance

Finance Sustainability

The concepts of sustainability seem to apply easily to certain disciplines, like supply chain management. But what about in corporate finance?

16 Dec 2020 4 min read
A different small lightbulb growing on soil.
Choose to Lead

Sustainability at Universities: Walking the Talk and Leading by Example

Education Sustainability

Sustainability has become a key driver for a university’s reputation. Yet, “teaching sustainability as well as further societal skills, will not be enough,” says Andreas Kaplan, professor of marketing.

16 Dec 2020 3 min read
Adobe Stock
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

With Big Data comes a Big Energy Impact

Sustainability Tech

The exponential increase in data flows, and amount of energy consumed, makes radical changes necessary and urgent in companies and society as a whole.

16 Dec 2020 4 min read
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Circular economy: understanding the issue with just a “Look’Around”

Sustainability

Do you find yourself asking, what exactly IS the circular economy? Take a “Look’Around” the subject with a collection of articles from the ESCP Deloitte Chair.

15 Dec 2020 3 min read
Photo by Del Barrett on Unsplash
Choose to Lead

How can digital support a sustainable economy?

Sustainability TechForGood

Co-founder of French start-up CodaBene, Nicolas Arias shares his take on the application of digital technologies in the fight against food waste.

14 Dec 2020 4 min read
Soccer stadium
Their Choice

Meet Elias Orphelin, co-founder of Footonomics, Easynomics & CovidTracker

Entrepreneurship

At only age 22, Elias is committed to decrypting some of society’s most daunting questions, from economics to the evolution of the pandemic. Some might call him a “disseminator of knowledge.”

11 Dec 2020 5 min read
An alarm clock sitting on a stool
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

2025, 2030, 2050… which career paths to face the crises of the 21st century?

CareerLessons Sustainability

Working to reduce risks & adapt our society to better control our collective destiny in the next 10, 20 or 30 years is necessary, exciting, and a source of many professional opportunities. Learn how.

10 Dec 2020 5 min read
Choose to Lead

Accelerating change towards a more sustainable food model

Sustainability

As the link between consumers & producers, agri-food leaders have the potential to encourage collective action for a more sustainable food model. Interview with Bel’s Sustainability Director Elodie Parre

09 Dec 2020 6 min read
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

“Finance and sustainability are a necessary choice from an environmental, social and governance point of view”

Finance Sustainability

For The Choice, BNP Paribas Head of Corporate Engagement Mauro Bombacigno explains how banks play a key role in promoting sustainable finance.

09 Dec 2020 4 min read
Thomas Friang, founder of L’Institut Open Diplomacy
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Sustainability is unavoidable, but “we are missing our chance to take action”

Sustainability

On World Climate Day, Thomas Friang, founder of L’Institut Open Diplomacy, reviews for The Choice current policies for sustainability.

08 Dec 2020 6 min read
Do something great
Choose to Lead

The Emergence of Impact Entrepreneurship: Is it really something new?

Entrepreneurship

Impact entrepreneurship does not seem to be a new trend or a new phenomenon but a way of doing business that we already know from our history. And we need it now more than ever.

07 Dec 2020 4 min read
TL;DR

A waste hierarchy for the circular economy

Sustainability

The inclusion of a waste hierarchy in the circular economy is crucial. Failing to do so results in an unsustainable model.

03 Dec 2020 2 min read
Choose to Lead

To face uncertainty, think like an entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship

By applying the Art Thinking approach and the Effectuation Theory of Entrepreneurship, two intrapreneurs learned to make decisions in uncertain situations.

30 Nov 2020 5 min read
Accelerator Concept
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

A hitchhiker’s guide to corporate innovation

Innovation Strategy

Before selecting your next corporate innovation tool, answer these three questions. Without some introspection on your corporate innovation objectives, you risk chasing the newest trends and not getting the bang for your buck.

24 Nov 2020 5 min read
Alexia Genta, Founder of Geraldine London
Their Choice

The choice that saved her business

Entrepreneurship

What kind of creative resilience is required to be an entrepreneur during the COVID-19 era? Alexia Genta discusses the choice that saved her business.

23 Nov 2020 7 min read
TL;DR

Can tech & AI help provide the best student experience?

Education

AI & chatbot technology are essential tools for a personalized, seamless experience, including in higher education.

23 Nov 2020 3 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

Shutting down your business: It’s anything but a failure

Entrepreneurship

While the Covid-19 pandemic has forced many entrepreneurs to close up shop, these young business leaders inspire us to see business closure not as a failure but a springboard to new opportunities.

23 Nov 2020 5 min read
Women Making Business Notes
Choose to Lead

Mentoring for Women: A start-up with a difference

Entrepreneurship

Even with the best will of the world, everybody needs a little help to reach their goals. That’s where mentorship can step in. To mark Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, The Choice met Julia Stadler, co-founder of Femstory, a company that provides mentoring to young businesswomen. At only 28, she already has a unique insight into the opportunities and challenges facing young women in the corporate world.

20 Nov 2020 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

Management to Leadership: What Makes the Difference?

Management

Can being a manager and being yourself go hand in hand? We think so! Better yet, it could make you a more successful leader.

08 Nov 2020 6 min read
Christoph Koenig speaks to ESCP Business School Student
Their Choice

Rewriting the rules: how a young entrepreneur reimagined student feedback

Entrepreneurship

Student or Entrepreneur . . . why not both? ESCP alumnus and Founder of Clay, Christoph Koenig knew exactly what lied ahead of him after graduation this year: growing his business.

08 Nov 2020 5 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

The Time Has Come to Rethink CSR

#Covid-19 CSR

The COVID-19 health crisis has highlighted the need for CSR, now more than ever. But how can businesses combine short-term responsiveness with a medium to long-term vision for their stakeholders? Think strategic CSR.

08 Nov 2020 4 min read
An open door on the horizon
Tomorrow's Choices, Today

How to make a career change, even when you run the business

HR

Deciding to change your job or your company is never easy. And it’s even harder if you are running the company. Monique Chézalviel, Executive Advisor at LHH ICEO France, provides senior managers with advice and support for their career strategies.

08 Nov 2020 3 min read
Man working from home
Choose to Lead

“Tomorrow’s winning companies will include homeworking as part of the business”

FutureofWork Management

For platform.sh, the end-to-end web hosting service founded in 2014, homeworking has been a part of their DNA since nearly day one. Co-founder and CEO Frédéric Plais explains the reasons behind this pioneering choice.

04 Nov 2020 4 min read
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TL;DR

Demystifying the “working from home” panacea

#Workingfromhome

Working from home appears here to stay. While many praise this new way of working, research on the topic is less enthusiastic. ESCP Professor and Behavioural Scientist Benjamin Voyer shares his scepticism.

31 Oct 2020 2 min read
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Tomorrow's Choices, Today

To prepare for the future of work, develop the skills of future leadership

FutureofWork Leadership

We cannot predict exactly what the future of work will look like. So rather than fruitlessly attempting to determine what jobs lie ahead, we’ve applied an alternative approach to identify the essential skills of future leadership.

31 Oct 2020 4 min read
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Choose to Lead

4 benefits of cultural diversity in the workplace

Inclusion Workplace

There is no question about it. Understanding and embracing diversity is the first step to becoming competitive on an international scale.

31 Oct 2020 2 min read
Mélanie Marcel is an engineer, neuroscientist and entrepreneur. In 2012, she decided to create SoScience, a company that promotes responsible research.
Their Choice

The meaning of responsible research with Mélanie Marcel, entrepreneur & neuroscientist

Entrepreneurship Research

Mélanie Marcel is an engineer, neuroscientist and entrepreneur. In 2012, she decided to create SoScience, a company that promotes responsible research – the kind that makes a positive impact on daily life, in both social and environmental terms.

27 Oct 2020 4 min read
Tictatrip People Meeting
Their Choice

When finding a sustainable travel solution means building it yourself

Entrepreneurship

While at ESCP, Hugo Bazin and Simon Robain had the idea of developing a reservation platform for travel. In launching Tictactrip, the two co-founders quickly realised that their success depended on seizing every opportunity that came their way.

26 Oct 2020 4 min read
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