“People ignore design that ignores people,” stated Frank Chimero, Brooklyn-based brand and product designer, some time ago. Design is and has been an integral part of any successful business for centuries. However, only recently, businesses across the globe have acknowledged more noticeably the value that design adds to any outcome …
This blog isn’t like the others and we purposely wanted it so. We interviewed John Parkhouse, our CEO, on a Thursday afternoon, one of those scattered sunny days of summer 2021. This is the story and the podcast as well. ***** Thursday afternoon. Mary is about to go on holiday. …
It’s that time of year again when your friendly, approachable PwC Luxembourg blog team starts going on summer vacation (not all at once of course, that would be a bit inconsiderate, so we’ll still be producing articles). But before we do, we’d like to propose to you a summer reading …
Meet Sebastien. He is 28 years old, born and raised in Luxembourg. He speaks French, Luxembourgish, English and Spanish – which he learnt during his Erasmus programme in Madrid. When he was in high school, he decided he wanted to be an economist. He found the idea of conducting research, …
The COVID-19 crisis made obvious the fragility of certain supply chains. Who in the entire planet would have thought that we could run out of face masks and hand sanitiser one day? Very likely no one. The crisis, a severe teacher, among other lessons that it taught us, made procurement …
The “Sleeping Giant” has awakened, and its emergence represents an era-defining shift in the global economic landscape. China’s rise in the last two decades has been truly meteoric, catalysing an economic expansion of unprecedented proportions. An average economic growth rate of 9.1% between its accession to the World Trade Organisation …
Historically, gratitude has always been studied with people facing each other. But over the last 15 months or so, in the midst of a pandemic that may be fading but refuses to go away, we have had little or limited direct contact. Then, the fief of digital communication —videoconferences, voice messaging, …
Online investing has made ordinary people discover financial markets. Together with lockdowns and limited mobility triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, came hours and hours spent on social media and the internet, and all that made us even more aware of new ways of investing, among other things and realities. …
Every year in June we have a month, week or day dedicated to the uplifting of LGBT+ voices and culture. Our support to LGBT+ rights, either as a member of the community or as an ally, gets louder and our fight against discrimination feels invigorated. More and more, organisations around …
Does every company understand what falls under the treasury function? Challenging events in the past made the value of the treasury function crystal clear to the business as a whole. However, we still see some companies without a cash culture in place, lacking key metrics and global visibility and/or still …
