Europe

It’s a resurgence other countries should understand before copying.

The story of a royal trading company comes to life on an 18th-century stock certificate.

The European Commission holds out an alluring vision of the single European market: 320 million consumers, a unified economy larger than that of the United States, faster economic growth with lower prices, and at least two million new jobs. But to European managers, the movement toward a unified market looks uneven and untidy. For instance, […]

Here’s how they do it so consistently.

Pulling up the drawbridge has never been an option.

And other things your company should care about this year.

In Russia, 3M is showing how companies can turn cultural variations into business advantages.

Advancing the sustainability goals of the author’s grandfather, his company’s founder

Europe's capitalist system may be better suited to meet the demands of a global economy than its American or Japanese counterparts. In the years ahead,...

Bad news for small countries, safe seas, and the U.S.

The private sector can't handle this on its own.

It takes more to level the playing field.

And what U.S. policymakers need to know about them.

In the midst of hardship, the climate for foreign investment in Russia has never been better. But Westerners should learn from the mistakes of the first wave of joint ventures.

The trend is to downsize corporate headquarters--but sometimes a bigger HQ is better.

An economist explains the French presidential election.

Western managers nurse a number of untested assumptions about Soviet management. The most common are: 1. The Soviets know little about management. Their system has failed and failed widely. They are basically trying with very limited success to apply superior Western management methods. 2. Western and Soviet management systems are operationally incompatible. 3. The two […]

Leaders make decisions every day of their lives, but how they do it changes dramatically over the course of their careers. At lower levels, the job is...

Companies have focused so much on downsizing to contain costs that they've largely neglected a looming threat to their competitiveness: a severe shortage...

Stimulate the economy, shrewdly manage UK-Euro trade talks, and above all, don’t deregulate finance.