Europe

Your organization can become more decisive—and can implement strategy more quickly—if you know where the bottlenecks are and who’s empowered to break through them.

In Russia, citizens are cleaning up business and government.

Leaders of companies with operations in Russia share how they've navigated new and unexpected challenges during the war in Ukraine.

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

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

Pulling up the drawbridge has never been an option.

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, […]

This month, all of Harvard Business Review's Forethought contributions address avian influenza, its potential to become a pandemic, and the red flags...

It was supposed to be an amicable "merger of equals," an example of European togetherness, a synergistic deal that would create the world's second-largest...

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

According to a study of German firms.

Deutsche Post World Net, the German postal monopoly, faced significant challenges as it began the process of integrating three businesses: Deutsche Post...

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

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

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.

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

A young American businessman in a developing country discovers that nothing gets done unless palms are greased. Should he play the game by his personal ethics—or the local rules?

It’s a different way to approach regulation.

A brief review of the economic history.