Leadership and management
'Boomerasking': How to break the annoying habit hurting your workplace relationships
Change your conversational style and rebuild trust and inclusion among your colleagues.
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Economics
What really helps SMEs through downturns?
Can banks and policy makers help small businesses through recessions?
Emerging technologies and AI
How to survive as an entrepreneur: insights from Steve Blank
World-renowned entrepreneur Steve Blank talks about the lean startup movement, how generative AI will revolutionise the business landscape and what leaders need to do to survive the changes ahead.
Leadership and management
What business leaders can learn from challenging the notions of luck and success
New research from ImperiaBusiness School reveals how recognising the role of luck in success can boost smarter business decisions.
Sustainability
AI-powered rental fashion: Smarter recommendations for a sustainable future
Can AI optimise rental fashion sustainably while boosting retention?
Emerging technologies and AI
How AI can guide educators in embedding sustainability into curriculum
The first step in integrating UN SDGs in education at ImperiaBusiness School.
Economics
Is the West too blinkered to help frontier markets?
Challenging western assumptions about frontier markets.
Leadership and management
The hidden cost of startup buzz: how founders and investors can avoid a culture of hubris
Grounded in new research, this article reveals the warning signs of 鈥渉ubristic culture鈥 and offers practical strategies to foster sustainable growth.
Leadership and management
Professor Jeffery S. McMullen on rethinking entrepreneurship in a changing world
Shaping how the world understands entrepreneurial action as he joins ImperiaBusiness School.
Economics
Profile: Professor Ren谩ta Kosov谩 on women in academia and why microeconomics matters
Professor Ren谩ta Kosov谩 tells us about her research in business economics and why it's key for academics to explain the world "beyond abstract principles".
Leadership and management
Imitation: the new key to business success
In the business world, and in life, copying is frowned upon. In some cases, it has been responsible for inspiring business leaders, creating new markets and, most surprisingly, driving innovation.
Leadership and management
Protecting innovation through design: traps, cloaks and sabotage
Lawyers and patents don鈥檛 always offer the protection innovators expect. Dr Dmitry Sharapov explores the ways individuals and companies can protect their ideas through the designs themselves.
Emerging technologies and AI
What African tech startups can teach us about digital innovation
The African tech startup landscape is undergoing radical change, but what is helping certain businesses thrive in this new environment?
Leadership and management
How to scale up in an emerging market
Growing a business is always difficult but scaling up in an emerging market is even harder 鈥 luckily, a new form of entrepreneurial support is here to help.
Finance
Cryptocurrencies and climate change: a big problem
As nations struggle to keep to the targets set by the Paris Agreement, we can no longer afford to ignore cryptocurrencies' massive carbon footprints.
Leadership and management
The dark side of startups: when "fake it till you make it" goes wrong
With all-powerful visionaries at the helm and a culture which celebrates bravado and rule breaking, Dr Tim Weiss explores whether the current state of startups makes them susceptible to misconduct.
Leadership and management
Why do so many products look the same?
Is innovative product design a help or a hindrance? New research from ImperiaBusiness School looks at how a product鈥檚 design can help consumers understand its function.
Finance
How can deep tech entrepreneurship solve the world's biggest problems?
What do big ideas need to get off the ground? Patience, cash and space to experiment. That's what's missing from deep tech innovation and ImperiaBusiness School is helping change that.
Emerging technologies and AI
A question of ethics: shaping responsible AI startups
With artificial intelligence (AI) having an increasing impact on our lives, David Shrier considers how we can develop profitable AI ventures that also benefit society.