The cancelation of a concert in Israel by Lauryn Hill underlies the importance of developing a deep understanding of history and politics for different regions of the world when doing business internationally as it appears that the pop star was caught off guard by the social media the concert generated.

As you know, the EPL (English Premier League) has sold its media rights for the next three years for £1 billion per year. For the sake of comparison, the current deal for the Spanish league is about €600 million (a bit less than half the EPL’s new deal); even if Spanish teams were finally to…

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