To summarise, a well-thought-out change strategy, emotionally involved people who believe in the soft side of change, leaders with an entrepreneurial mindset putting people first, an ambidextrous approach with a separate “entrepreneurial” business unit and, aligning the corporate strategy with the business …

Concerns about the negative consequences of the excessive underpricing of the current arrangement in the initial public offering (IPO) market for the provision of entrepreneurial finance—book building—have led to research into the viability of auctions for IPO pricing and allocation. IPO firms face a trade-off …

Since 2013, MoneyLab has explored questions around the design of money, the democratization of finance, and the new shifts in fintech.  On 14 and 15 November, the 7th edition of MoneyLab was held in Amsterdam. At MoneyLab #7: Outside of Finance, we looked beyond the world of libertarian startups with …

With the effects of climate change linked to the use of fossil fuels, as well as the prospect of their eventual depletion, becoming more noticeable, political establishment and society appear ready to switch towards using renewable energy. Solar power and wind power are considered to be the most significant …

Anyone who wants to understand the decisions businesses take and how these affect their shareholders needs to study [some level of] corporate finance. But most textbooks are too technical and too specialist for most people’s needs. This book is written for undergraduate students, especially in non-financial …

Closed loop or ‘circular’ production systems known as Circular Economy and Cradle to Cradle represent a unique opportunity to radically revise the currently wasteful system of production. One of the challenges of such systems is that circular products need to be both produced locally with minimum environmental …

Companies are organised to fulfil two distinctive functions: efficient and resilient exploitation of current business and parallel exploration of new possibilities. For the latter, companies require strong organisational infrastructure such as team compositions and functional structures to ensure exploration …

Ontwikkelingen op het gebied van ICT en digitalisering hebben de afgelopen twee decennia een enorme vlucht genomen. Hoewel op het gebied van finance, controlling en accounting vele interessante kansen liggen, zijn de nieuwe ontwikkelingen slechts in beperkte mate geadopteerd door de beroepspraktijk. …

Dit is de samenvatting van een onderzoek dat is uitgevoerd voor de afdeling Finance & Control van Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) ter optimalisatie van de diensten in het kader van het Turnaround project. Het onderzoek eindigt met enkele aanbevelingen voor de afdeling. Heerema Marine Contractors is …

Bankrupting Nature: Denying our Planetary Boundaries by Andres Wijkman and Johan Rockström emerges from the original report of The Club of Rome’s The Limits to Growth authored by Meadows and colleagues in 1972. This book demonstrates that an economy built on the …