In a world where growth is becoming increasingly elusive, companies can still create significant value by adopting a strategy of disciplined stability.

Unlikely as it seems, businesses can not only thrive amid economic uncertainty—they can seize the opportunity to transform for sustained growth.

In 2025, political surprises are adding fuel to the fires of business uncertainty, complexity, and volatility. Here’s how leaders can navigate this special type of risk.

Our 2025 Meeting of Minds explored how businesses can play a crucial role in upholding democratic foundations—mitigating polarization, fostering trust, and ensuring institutions remain accountable.

The rise of AI presents an opportunity for humans to step up to the challenge of refining, emphasizing, and applying our own human strengths to differentiate corporate decision-making. However, human capabilities, like making moral judgments, and using imagination or intuition, are often untrained, impulsive, or implicit. Thus, to distinguish and elevate their decision-making processes, organizations need to actively codify and foster the requisite human decision-making skills. This article outline five imperatives towards this end.

Corporate change is notoriously difficult and often fails. One reason is that success is considered to depend only on how change is executed—that is, the quality of “change management.” We argue that change must instead be treated as a strategic problem, varying the approach to change depending on the type of challenge encountered and the internal characteristics of the company.