Every continent has its share of populist movements, both right-wing and left-wing, but only some actually reach a critical mass of power, while others remain on the sidelines. The term “populist” is frequently used as a political weapon to show disdain for a policy, even when it doesn’t quite fit the definition. This is because…

A few months ago, the IESE Cities in Motion Team had the great opportunity to attend the TM Forum Smart City InFocus conference, which took place in Yinchuan (China) on September 7-9, 2016. Through this blog, we would like to share with you a few ideas and thoughts both from the conference and from Yinchuan. This…

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…