Golden ages: What we can learn from their rise and fall
From Athens and Song China to Renaissance Italy, we’ve had many eras of scientific discovery and economic growth. What is their common...
Creating Persuasive “Digital Moments”
Technology persuade our decision making in many ways. In this lecture, students will learn about the power of persuasive technology and will...
Chaos & Complexity: Modelling Crisis Management in the 2020’s
The frameworks that have defined and supported strategic risk and crisis management since the end of the Second World War are no...
Nanomaterials for Electrical Energy Storage
Nanomaterials offer greatly improved ionic transport and electronic conductivity compared with conventional battery and supercapacitor materials. They offer opportunities for designing high-energy,...
Future(S) of Business and the Art of Making Money”
Sometimes the 1920’s has been referred to as the roaring 20’s. A hundred years later we can indeed say that the 2020’s...
New & improved: How innovations happen
Innovation is the key to growth and prosperity, but how does it happen? Looking at different cases of innovation from history, from...
How economic activities differ: international trade as a source of underdevelopment
Around 1600, Italian economists wondered why all the gold that flooded into Spain from the Americas ended up in industrial cities like...
An Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Research in the United States
In this lecture, we’ll explore the basic elements of qualitative methods used in U.S. research. We’ll review the research paradigms that ground...
Basics of Capital Structure and Corporate Governance
Capital structure and corporate governance are interrelated. How a company raises capital affects how it is governed, and vice versa. This lecture...
Advanced Supervised Learning: Decision Trees and Random Forests
This lecture introduces some advanced machine learning algorithms: decision trees, random forests and boosted trees. These algorithms achieve state-of-the-art performance on many...
Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Communities like Silicon Valley, Boston, Tel Aviv, and London took decades to become robust entrepreneurial ecosystems. In this lecture, we review ecosystem...
Blockchain Basics
Blockchain technology can be a game-changer for accounting, supply chain, banking, contract law, and many other fields. But blockchains will only be...
How to Write a Great Research Paper and Get it Published
The lecturer spent about two decades acting as editor, associate editor and focus issue editor for multiple journals, including Carbon (Elsevier) and...
How to derive a new theory
We will provide an answer to the question: “What kind of observations and assumptions are minimally needed to formulate a physical model?”...
Overview of the importance of trade globally and its organization
This lecture will start with a brief discussion of the role of trade in the industrial revolution and until the millennium. There...
Global Strategy
This lecture focuses on the factors that deliver competitive success in today’s globalized and increasingly digitized world
