Let’s say you are a multinational corporation with headquarters in Canada and plan to send an expatriate to your subsidiary in China. Who would you most likely send, a French Canadian manager, or an ethnic Chinese manager? I suspect you would pick the latter as we quite naturally assume that expatriates, who share similarities with…

From the effects of populism throughout the New and Old World to Russia´s slow, but steady positive growth, the IMF's economic predictions for 2017 have had to take into account the geopolitical volatility. Frankly, it is hard to know what we can expect with so many unexpected precedents. In Europe, all eyes will be on…

Donald Trump has has lied to the American people and imperiled the United States' national security. Fortunately, the American system has a number of checks and balances in it and I am afraid that before this is over, the Congress and the Senate will have to impeach him.

On behalf of the IESE Cities in Motion team, welcome to our blog! IESE Cities in Motion Strategies is a research platform that was launched by the IESE Business School Center for Globalization and Strategy and the IESE Department of Strategy. We are an initiative that brings together an international network of experts, specialized companies…