How do capital markets respond when firms in traditional industries integrate AI and advanced analytics (AIAA)? Having analysed stock market reactions to 397 announcements by biopharmaceutical firms between 2001 and 2020, Michael Freeman and […]
How the market values AI and advanced analytics investments
How independent creative workers negotiate audience relationships
Independent creative workers, from visual artists to musicians, need to achieve widespread appeal. But once they do, managing the relationship with their audience is the next challenge. In a study of independent […]
From range anxiety to charge anxiety
Is range anxiety still the main factor limiting EV adoption? Charge anxiety seems to have taken over. It arises from five factors: Anton S. Ovchinnikov and his collaborator present three empirically grounded analytical models, […]
Should you aggregate expert estimates and forecasts?
How frequent are large disagreements in human judgement? Miguel Sousa Lobo and his co-author found that the frequency with which an individual judgement differs substantially from the consensus looks less like a bell curve […]
April 4, 2026: The Business of Rowing (nr. 18): When FLI Took Leadership to the Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race
On Boat Race day in London, The Future Leadership Institute turned one of the world’s oldest university sporting rivalries into a laboratory for leadership. Olympic rowers, business leaders, academics and students gathered […]
DNA shape explains crucial gene-therapy challenges
Researchers at Imperial College London, the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), and the University of Sheffield have shown that the physical twisting of DNA plays an important role in correcting for […]
DNA research to shed light on the alleged remains of the Dukes of Brabant
Does St Peter’s Church in Leuven really contain the remains of the Dukes of Brabant from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries? DNA research led by KU Leuven aims to provide a definitive […]
February 12, 2026: Darwin’s Drink: Raising a Glass to Curiosity, Science and Charles Darwin
Every year on 12 February, The Future Leadership Institute marks the birthday of Charles Darwin with a simple idea: stop for a moment, have a drink, and think about where we came […]
A Revolution in Governance: How AI Will Make Boards More Effective
Far from making directors redundant, AI will enable boards to see further, act faster and govern better. The modern board of directors has its origins in medieval merchant guilds and developed in […]
The rules of global business are being rewritten. Leadership must evolve to keep pace
The forces reshaping global business demand more than strategy. They require leaders who can interpret uncertainty, adapt at speed, and bring coherence to an increasingly unstable environment. For the first time in […]
Learning to Lead as a New Manager
How new managers can better prepare themselves as they transition from an individual contributor to a leader. You’ve just been promoted to a manager. Now what? The truth is that new managers […]
Gut immune cells play a key role in infections and complications in liver cirrhosis
Researchers at KU Leuven have discovered that specific immune cells in the gut play a crucial role in the development of bacterial infections in liver cirrhosis. The findings help explain why patients […]
Vega Is Not as Quiet as We Thought: Astronomers Discover a Complex Magnetic Field
More than a decade of exceptionally precise observations has revealed two very different magnetic fields on Vega, one of the best-known stars in the night sky. The discovery could change our understanding […]
How Cells Keep Their Genetic Balance: A Gene-by-Gene Compensation System
Researchers at KU Leuven and Erasmus MC have discovered that cells can compensate for the loss of genes by increasing the activity of their remaining copy. Surprisingly, this balancing act does not […]
