With a flurry of space activity expected within next decade, ever-worsening US-China relations will become a more pressing issue, with two key areas of potential friction, reveals a new report from LSE IDEAS.

The report proves timely with the launch of the first module of China’s new orbital space station, just over a week after the US continued its successful new era of crewed spaceflight with t...

Business development and leadership development should go hand in hand, states Pekka Mattila, Associate Dean of Executive Education at Aalto University.

Dr Mattila says that leadership development has a crucial role in creating a competitive business advantage, as previous studies have shown that it improves financial performance, helps attract and retain talent, drives strategy execution, and in...

eToro, the world's leading social investment network, released its Q1 2021 report, produced in partnership with The Tie, a leading provider of alternative data for digital assets, titled Inherent Value. Inherent Value looks at three highly relevant and timely topics. The report covers three timely and relevant issues. First, it explores The Pathology of Hyperinflation and looks at the role Bit...

With the progress of the COVID vaccination campaign in mind, many organisations have communicated that employees are expected to work from the office again.

However new research from Wladislaw Rivkin at Trinity Business School, Fabiola Gerpott and Dana Unger demonstrates that commuting reduces productivity at work by draining mental energy, effecting our ability to fully focus on what we’re doing...

Contract opportunities in South Africa and India are booming as the Coronavirus pandemic continues to shift the focus away from Europe. That’s according to a recent analysis of contractor placement trends from 6CATS International.

The leading provider of contractor management solutions revealed that the increased flexibility of work and a spike in remote working options for contractors has led to...

Throughout lockdown, business leaders have debated the tricky issue of how best to engage and support their people while working from home.

However, according to a major new industry survey “The 2021 Contact Centre People Engagement Survey”, 81% of Agents/Advisers - and 56% of Directors/Managers - say that People Engagement in their Contact Centres is not a problem.

322 UK Contact Centre Directo...

Nearly all employees who are working from home (97%) prefer to keep working from home, even when offices are open, according to respondents in the third round of a joint research conducted by Nyenrode Business University, Open University and Moneypenny. The study found that 9% wants to keep working from home fulltime – 88% prefers a hybrid 50-50 model. The missing of real life formal and informal ...

Global consumer confidence soared to record heights in the first quarter of 2021, according to The Conference Board® Global Consumer Confidence Survey, as vaccination campaigns broadened, travel restrictions loosened, and governments and central banks continued to provide economic stimulus.

The survey found that overall global consumer confidence shot up from 98 in the fourth quarter of 2020...

Authors: Joost Peeters, Ruben Brosens en Simon Geens at STUDIO | LEGALE Advocaten in Belgium

In recent years, various alternative forms of mobility have been introduced to road traffic. Electric bicycles, scooters and speed pedelecs have become part of the everyday public scene. The legal framework has had to be adapted to these new forms of mobility.

The question arises about the insurance of t...