Business & Strategy

Insights and analysis on markets, the global economy, investment, financial management, and value creation.

How to avoid escalating conflicts in a negotiation?

Negotiation processes characterised by high tension and confrontation are recurrent and represent losses for both parties. In this article, we have compiled some tips from Professor Luís Almeida Costa on how to avoid escalating conflicts and create a constructive negotiation atmosphere.

Manuel Tânger: "Thinking like a start-up is the most important thing for a company's success"

Manuel Tânger, co-founder of Beta-i and speaker at SU Portugal, guarantees that more than 12 years of experience working with start-ups made him see that there is a mentality behind these businesses that is important in times of exponential growth.

We start the 2021/2022 school year with 5 new programmes

A partnership with the Portuguese Football Federation, a programme on Blockchain and cryptocurrency, new training courses dedicated to leadership, business strategy and SMEs - we inaugurate the next academic year with a wider, more up-to-date offer for all tastes!

We have broadened the training offer to meet the challenges of the "new normal

The challenges created by the pandemic inspired us to broaden our training offer. Nova SBE Executive Education wants to do more and better, responding to the new issues that have emerged with COVID, in different sectors of the economy. Ready to face the "new normal"?

General Management Course: "I should have done this programme earlier. It was spectacular!"

The General Management Course is the postgraduate course with the most editions in the Nova SBE Executive Education portfolio, and the next one is about to start. With a benchmark programme in the market and a unique format, its mission is to transform experienced managers into the leaders of tomorrow. We know it is a transformative training, but nothing is more rewarding than hearing from our alumni.

Planning: the new strategic competence

Ana Varela, Sales Excellence Manager at Nova School of Business and Economics, explains what has changed recently in the management of companies

Lessons from Silicon Valley to tackle the crisis COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic generated an unprecedented global economic crisis in a short period of time, with impacts that also hit what is considered by many as the world's leading hub of innovation, technology and entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley. However, living here for more than 5 years I risk saying that the biggest technology companies were already "prepared" in advance for this crisis.