The European Business Review

The European Business Review is a leading business intelligence magazine designed to ensure that its readers make informed decisions. It provides them indispensable insight, current best practices and is their best source of new ideas about what’s important. The European Business Review readers embrace leadership in their jobs and their lives. Their affluence, education, achievements, and wide ranging experience are unparalleled. They are the men and women who shape the world we love, the world we live in.

The European Business Review

LOOKING TOWARDS 2026 WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? • The business environment in 2026 will be heavily impacted by economic fragility, geopolitical instability, and social volatility. Growing protectionism, elevated public debt, populist demands for increased social spending, and the costs of an aging population worldwide (healthcare, social services, pensions) could usher in a period of high inflation and stagnant growth.

Can Europe Inc. make decarbonization its competitive edge? • Europe’s lead on decarbonization has not translated into competitive advantages. But the continent’s policy aims are increasingly to foster growth in new sustainable markets. In response, companies should rethink their market positioning, accelerate decarbonization, and embrace more radical forms of collaboration.

Transforming Business Education Through Sustainability and Innovation • This article explores how business schools can transform education by embedding sustainability and innovation across curricula, research, teaching, and operations. Drawing on global frameworks like the UN SDGs, it outlines actionable strategies to develop responsible leaders equipped to address pressing global challenges, foster social impact, and drive systemic change.

THE DIGITAL PHOENIX EFFECT: HOW ESTABLISHED FIRMS CAN WIN IN THE PLATFORM ERA • Established companies face persistent challenges of inefficient transactions, shifting customer needs, innovation bottlenecks, underused data, and strategic data gaps. Daniel Trabucchi and Tommaso Buganza of the Politecnico di Milano reveal how platform models address these problems and present a methodology to design, ignite, and grow scalable ecosystems.

AI Industry Adoption and Its Management Implications • AI technologies are spreading fast across industries, but adoption varies widely. This article helps managers understand where and how AI is gaining ground across the main U.S. industries in the 2020-2024 period, based on large-scale textual analysis of annual corporate 10-K reports.

ON ULTRAINTELLIGENCE AND ULTRA RISKS • What is your pet goldfish's take on the “Offside” rule? Chances are, it’s a little outside its usual terms of reference. Well, it could be we're all due for a first-hand experience of that beyond-my-fishbowl feeling as our AI systems tend steadily towards the “UI”. Ultra Risk, anyone?

INTEL CORPORATION: Gordon Moore's Unique Leadership Strategic Laws and a Mysterious Strategic Turning Point • This is a peek at Gordon Moore, the co-founder and emeritus CEO of Intel, who has been noted as one of the most prominent and successful managers today. Intel company, under the strategic leadership of Moore Group, has become the largest manufacturer of computer chips in the world. This company is now one of the most admired companies in America and one of the most profitable companies on the “Fortune 500” list. Gordon Moore coined the phrase “strategic turning point”. Moore argues that at the magic point of a strategic turning, all rules change. Moore owes most of his victories to his strategic leadership philosophy, revealed in this article. We recount the experience of his victories and failures and show how he has controlled events and turned threats into opportunities at Intel. The process of decoding the DNA of Moore’s leadership secrets and the strategic turning...