By Steven Weber, Partner What does it mean in 2022 to be a global firm, and what will it mean as we approach the middle of the decade? In this essay, Steve Weber takes a look back at his most recent book Bloc by Bloc: How to Build a Global Enterprise for the New Regional Order, […]
The long hot summer of 2022 feels like one of the most pessimistic moments in modern history. With reason — we’ve living through a multi-faceted crisis that combines inflation and low economic growth, gun violence at home and a brutal land war in Europe, acute signals of climate change and spiking energy costs, and a […]
By Steve Weber and Arik Ben-Zvi In late April and early May 2020, a little more than a month into the acute phase of the U.S. pandemic, we sketched out four simple scenarios designed to capture critical uncertainties about how the pandemic would impact American society and politics over the following year. Nearly a year […]
By Steve Weber and Arik Ben-Zvi America’s historic 2020 election is (mostly) over and the contours of the 2020s are taking shape. To help navigate this critical time, BWS has developed numerous scenarios that test different combinations of these critical uncertainties. From that process, we identified 5 core scenarios for the first half of the 2020s that […]
By Arik Ben-Zvi, CEO and President The events of the past months have opened a window of opportunity – and demonstrated the acute need – to establish a new covenant between the technology sector and the society that it is meant to serve. The events of the past months have opened a window of opportunity […]
By Arik Ben-Zvi, CEO and President Strategic planning has literally never been harder than it is at this moment. How do you plan for the future when we don’t know whether a Depression lies ahead or a rapid recovery? Or whether this disease will be with us for years, or whether a vaccine is just […]