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Growth & innovation:

• How Europe’s CEOs are winning with quiet resilience — BCG, 2025
• The Future 50: companies that investors and CEOs should watch — Fortune, 2025
• In disruptive times, the resilient win — BCG, 2025
• The vitality code — BCG, 2025
• The Future 50: companies most likely to adapt, thrive, and grow — Fortune, 2024
• Innovation systems need a reboot — BCG, 2024
• China may have Asia’s most vibrant companies — Fortune, 2024
• An ecosystem approach to governing innovation hubs — BCG, 2023
• An innovation culture that gets results — BCG, 2023
• Reaching new heights in uncertain times — BCG, 2023
• Are you ready for green growth? — BCG, 2022
• Overcoming the innovation readiness gap — BCG, 2021
• The serial innovation imperative — BCG, 2020
• Overcoming the four big barriers to innovation success — BCG, 2019
• The five steps all leaders must take — MIT Sloan Management Review, 2017
• Sensemaking and innovation. A primer. — Medium, 2017
• The business of business is no longer just business — BCG, 2017
• Rethinking some assumptions about global business — HBR video, 2017
• Harnessing the secret structure of innovation — MIT Sloan Management Review, 2017
• An agenda for the future of global business — HBR, 2017
• Tackling inequality — Rotman, 2016
• Saving globalization and technology from themselves — BCG, 2016
• Using M&A to increase your capacity for growth — HBR, 2016
• Postmerger integration rejuvenation — BCG, 2016
• The strategy trap successful companies fall into — HBR video, 2016
• Tomorrow never dies — BCG, 2015
• Don’t let your company get trapped by success — HBR, 2015
• In the press:
• Europas Unternehmen sind innovativer als gedacht — WiWo, 2025
• Europas Unternehmen rutschen ab — Kurier, 2022
• Der Apfel als Innovationskaiser — Der Standard, 2021
• Europas Unternehmen fallen innovativ zurück — FAZ, 2021
• Die größten Aufsteiger unter den Innovationsführern — WiWo, 2020
• Wie Corona uns den Zufall raubt — FAZ, 2020

Global talent:

• Global mobility has slowed, but the race for AI talent has not — BCG, 2026
• A forest per worker — CGD, 2026
• Global talent mobility is slowing and shifting — BCG, 2025
• Introducing the top ten global talent hubs — BCG, 2025
• Who’s winning the global race for STEM and AI talent? — BCG, 2024
• Global workers, local impact — BCG, 2024
• Will a green skills gap put climate goals at risk? — BCG, 2023
• How your company can gain a global talent advantage — TED, 2023
• The next billion workers — WEF, 2023
• A new migration strategy for growth and innovation — BCG, 2023
• Migration matters — BCG with UN IOM, 2022
• 5 key predictions for the future of talent migration — WEF, 2022
• Talent is universal. Opportunity is not. — The So What from BCG, 2022
• When innovation has no borders, culture is key — BCG, 2022
• Building a globally diverse team is actually getting easier — HBR, 2022
• L’immigration, moteur de croissance — HBR France, 2021
• Immigration and the future of the welfare state in Europe — Annals AAPSS, 2021
• A fresh look at diversity and innovation — BCG, 2021
• Helping migrants takes imagination — Contexts, 2019
• So wird Deutschland wirklich zum Einwanderungsland — Handelsblatt, 2018
• Diversity at work — BCG, 2017
• Birthplace diversity and economic prosperity — Journal of Economic Growth, 2016
• Immigration, diversity, and economic prosperity — VoxEU, 2013
• Economic costs of the Malaysian brain drain — Malaysian J. Econ. Studies, 2011
• In the press:
• How London can rise again — The Economist, 2026
• The AI talent war is becoming fiercer — The Economist, 2025
• Eine Initiative für die Top-Talente — Manager Magazin, 2023
• Weltweiter Fachkräftemangel gefährdet Erreichen der Klimaziele — Spiegel, 2023
• Deutschland für ausländische Fachkräfte attraktiver geworden — MDR, 2023
• Deutschland zieht global Talente an — Welt, 2023
• Kluge Köpfe für den Arbeitsmarkt — Berliner Zeitung, 2023
• Weltweit nimmt die Migration zu — Business Insider, 2022
• Fachkräftemangel kostet 86 Mrd. € im Jahr — Spiegel, Zeit, SZ, Welt u.a., 2022
• „Jeder ‚Match‘ ist ein Zeichen der Hoffnung“ — Capital, 2022
• Das Tech-Potenzial von Migrantenkindern — Handelsblatt, 2022
• Capital 40 under 40 — Capital, 2021
• Deutschland ist attraktiver als gedacht — SZ, 2021
• So kann man jetzt Menschen in Afghanistan helfen — Tagesspiegel, 2021
• Unternehmensberater bringt Migranten nach Deutschland — FAZ, 2021
• Migration als Chance für Wachstum und Wohlstand — MDR, 2021
• Migration steigert Wohlstand in meisten Ländern — ORF, 2021
• Migration steigert den Wohlstand in den meisten Ländern — APA, 2021
• Migration kann viel Wohlstand schaffen — Welt, 2021

I teamed on some of these with Alberto Alesina, Janina Kugel, Justin Manly, Hillel Rapoport, Martin Reeves, and others.