In recent years, digital integration into organisational processes has evolved from a set of tactical actions into a key component of strategic decision-making. This GBA aims to generate insight and to develop an in-depth understanding of how organisations can adopt and/or integrate big data and related capabilities into their strategy and innovative business models. San Francisco and Silicon Valley, as the world’s foremost entrepreneurial hotbeds in the digital space, constitute the ideal location for this endeavour.

Once a highly protectionist country, Mexico underwent a transformation from the early 1980s under the de Madrid government and its successors, applying neo-liberal policies and embracing global trade. Now business leaders worldwide face the challenge of reverse globalisation, with the rise of protectionism and nationalist populism, with Mexican business leaders among the most exposed to this change. This GBA will seek to understand how Mexican business, political and social leaders are seeking to address this challenge.

Strategic resilience is becoming an important capability for businesses. Greece offers a stimulating environment to understand how it is possible for businesses to thrive when the conditions that surround them are exceptionally challenging. This GBA will enable students to examine resilience at many levels and areas of society, government and business. Particular focus will be placed on examining firms that have excelled despite local conditions as well as Athens’ burgeoning start-up ecosystem, which has become one of Europe’s most active.

After a long period of relative stability and growth, driven by technology change, deregulation and globalisation, developed economies now face a possibly extended period of volatility. Once one of the richest countries in the world (in terms of GDP per capita), Argentina has experienced decades of crisis and volatility on economic, social and political dimensions.  This GBA aims to understand how the leaders of Argentine businesses and other institutions contend with highly uncertain environments, and to consider what our own organisations might learn from this.