On a trip to Shanghai a couple of years ago, I stumbled upon a grocery store called “Hema” when looking up robot restaurants. More than a typical grocery store, Hema represents the future of retail. Your smartphone acts as a shopping guide: scanning items, providing product details, and managing payments. The store seamlessly combines online…
As the MBA2025 cohort embarked on their campus journey, it dawned on me: I had already completed my exhilarating first year at London Business School. Time truly flies when you’re constantly being pushed and inspired. While many of my peers ventured out on international exchange programs, hungry for new experiences, others were gearing up for…
In today’s ever-changing world, creating social value has become a vital aspect of our social and economic construct. Archana Srivatsan, Head of South and South-East Asia VC at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Joey Savoie, Co-Founder at Charity Entrepreneurship shared their insights on creating social value with Professor Rajesh Chandy at the IB…
Cryptocurrency has been the latest fanfare of the modern economy. Be it the hysteria ensuing Elon Musk’s tweets or the frauds committed by Mt Gox, a Japan based bitcoin exchange; cryptocurrency has never failed to captivate its supporters or detractors. Despite the fact that a major chunk of people is bullish on cryptocurrency, few critics…
This week, I visited the Co-op on Baker Street, close to the School’s Sussex Place Campus, looking for some instant iced coffee. My eyes were drawn to Co-op’s branded Fairtrade Iced Coffee. The blue, green and black logo seemed familiar. I had stumbled upon it a few years ago as I was searching for a…
Unemployment and literacy – two themes that have been met with interest in public policy for decades. While the scrutiny is justified, what perhaps is needed is a nuanced lens to the relationship between the two. Particularly in a post-pandemic world, as businesses and economies navigate for survival with a shift in priorities, the spillover…
Greenwashing is conveying misleading or unproven claims about the positive environmental impact of a company’s product. A recent example is HSBC’s misleading advertisement which faced an immediate backlash. The banking giant rolled out an advertisement highlighting its $1 trillion investment in green initiatives. However, the Advertising Standards Authority noted the bank continues to make huge…
The construction of China’s first overseas military base has quickly directed the world’s attention to one of the smallest countries in the Horn of Africa – Djibouti. Currently, observers are obsessed with the military base and transit port. They have, unfortunately, overlooked the economic potential of the country with geopolitical advantage and a good natural…
The ability of credit-worthy businesses to access trade financing is essential to international trade, and in turn, the growth and development of economies around the world. However, despite its importance, experts believe there will be a trade financing gap of over $2 trillion in 2022 (Kim et al., 2021). To put this number in perspective,…
Despite major changes in laws and norms surrounding the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opinion on the acceptance of homosexuality in society remains sharply divided by country, region and economic development. In Kenya, for example, only 1 in 100 said homosexuality should be accepted in 2002,…
