As I ventured into Nigeria and Kenya, the locals warned me: "don’t think all of Africa is like us." In fact,  This has important implications for companies doing business in Africa and expanding in the continent: whether traditional multinationals, emerging market multinationals (EMMs), Pan-African companies, and even African regional companies. What does country distance mean? In his CAGE…

With the US presidential campaign under way once again, we are about to hear, see, and read in our media what central figures like Hillary Clinton say to motivate and inspire the electorate to support them. Today, as in other times, there are many great speakers both inside and outside the United States, but we have…

Shell’s announcement that it plans to buy BG Group is an example of its approach to long term strategic thinking, its conviction that the world will take action to reduce its carbon footprint over the coming decades, and its opinion that the slide in oil prices is probably over

The latest Mercer quality of life survey shows an updated global city ranking and suggests the best places for relocation. Yet, for global business, the destinations with new opportunities rarely sound familiar.