Latest blog articles

  • Cross Border Expansion: Seen from a Global Mobility Perspective

    Recently one of my foreign network partners (from France) requested me to assist him in advising and assisting one of his clients in a take over of a Dutch company. He was asked to provide expertise and guidance in the areas of employment law and employee benefits taxation (wage withholding taxes...

    Fabienne Hol - Van Goethem
  • To PhD or not to PhD

    I knew the letter would arrive in June. Every day I walked towards the front door and quickly glanced at the mailbox. No letter. Then, on a sunny Saturday morning, it was there. I felt like all those high schoolers from all those movies who applied for these fancy universities, waiting for their...

    Resnke Zuurveen
  • How to manage your leadership auto-pilot?

     “Perhaps you can change that font and color on that slide there”, I hear myself telling one of my team members.

    There I went again, trying to add some marginal value and get an internal fix of being productive. Looking at the face of my colleague, I just realized that my ‘added value’ wasn’t worth...

    Gaston Schmitz
  • Invest like a Pro

    How private portfolios can benefit from what professional investment managers do

    Christian Wiehenkamp
  • The right people for a successful change-adventure

    For a successful change-adventure you need the right people. You’ll have to build a real movement with them! To that end, a group or team of employees will have to take the lead in the change. We like to refer to this as the necessary coalition of change: a group of people with a shared belief that...

    Woody van Olffen
  • ESST Student Blog: Specialization Session for the Second Semester

    For those who have already looked into the programme, one first impression is that it is crazy short and jam-packed with contents (1 course per 4 weeks). And in being short, choosing your specialization for the second semester (February - June) means the pressure is on for some to make up their...

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  • Measuring emotions from your smartphone?

    Nearly everyone has a smartphone nowadays, and most people also have several other devices (tablets, laptops, etc.) to connect to the internet. Did you know that with just a simple smartphone or laptops companies and universities can already predict what kind of emotions you are experiencing?

    Bart Rienties
  • Measuring the Performance of a Supply Chain

    A supply chain can be defined as a “system whose constituent parts include material suppliers, production facilities, distribution services and customers linked together via the feed forward flow of materials and the feedback flow of information” (Stevens, 1989).

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  • 50/50 Story: Combining academia and policy work

    The story itself: So, how does it feel to work in academia and do policy work at the same time? First, let us talk more about these 2 areas to understand how these work in practice

    Irina Burlacu
  • Lean Startup MVP: How To Make Meaningful Products

    Jon Pittman says this about MVP in his Medium post: “engineering and business culture often focus (sic) on minimum features and forgets the viability part.” While I don’t think this tendency is limited to engineering and business culture, I agree that too many product development teams misuse MVP...

    Brian Pagán