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The Flexible Method: How to Survive and Thrive Through the Next Crisis

Leading Blog

But you can be prepared and follow a method to futureproof your business against the next crisis. It is a way through the next crisis you will face. A crisis is a time for deepening your core values, not abandoning them. template ] Develop a procedure for every contingency. Emerging From a Crisis Set Your Future Course.

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Can AI Help Us Understand Whether To Bail Out Banks?

The Horizons Tracker

The decision to bail out banks en masse in 2009 was widely adopted yet far from uncontroversial. Research from UCL explores whether AI can help governments to decide whether to bail out a bank in crisis or not. This short-term cost is justified to the taxpayer because the long-term costs of bank defaults would be more harmful.

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Brands, Leadership and the Climate Crisis

Great Leadership By Dan

Whilst hyper-relevance, ultra-personalisation, collaboration, ethics and sustainability are the crucial foundations of success; those tasked with creating that innovation are now faced with the challenge of the environmental crisis. This meaning that society and business alike are confronted with an existential dilemma.

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How The Financial Crisis Saw Support For Populists Rise

The Horizons Tracker

The financial crisis of 2008 had global implications, but perhaps one of the most considerable was its impact in bolstering support for populist politicians. Research from MIT highlighted how people who succumbed to financial difficulty after the crisis became attracted to populist politics and politicians.

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UNCTAD Report Argues For A New Approach To Tackling Financial Crisis

The Horizons Tracker

A paper from the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) argues that this monetary and fiscal policy could make the global recession worse and inflict damage that exceeds that seen during both the financial crisis of 2008 and the Covid pandemic. There’s still time to step back from the edge of recession,” the authors explain.

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The Climate Crisis and Brand Futures

Strategy Driven

Meanwhile, those tasked with creating that innovation are now faced with the challenge of the environmental crisis meaning that society and business alike are confronted with an existential dilemma. Indeed, the Governor of the Bank of England, memorably declared a few months ago that “firms ignoring the climate crisis will go bankrupt”.

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Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

The Practical Leader

Global banks are much stronger and less leveraged than in 2008. They’ve set up a Covid-19 platform to share information with and among research institutes to develop better testing kits, drugs, and a vaccine. Compared to the 2008 crisis, the financial system is more stable; compared to SARS, medical technology is more advanced.

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