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The recently published “The Swiss Business in China Survey 2025” shows that confidence in China as a business location remains high, even though conditions are becoming more challenging. At the same time, competition is intensifying significantly and requires modified strategies.The study “The Swiss Business in China Survey 2025”, conducted by the China Competence Center at the University of St.Gallen (HSG), examines the situation and expectation

Crowded city centres, early discount campaigns and lively online trade characterised the Christmas season. After several weaker years, initial signs point to a slight recovery. An evaluation by the University of St.Gallen shows that real consumer spending rose by around one per cent, driven primarily by online retail sales around Black Friday.The 2025 Christmas season, from Black Friday through the pre-Christmas period to a few days after Christm

Banks are key players in the green transition, but funds often continue to flow into fossil fuel projects. The new HSG research project “climateB” will investigate how non-governmental pressure can turn the tide in the financial sector.

Black Friday marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Research from the University of St.Gallen’s Monitoring Consumption Switzerland reveals that this year's Black Friday week gave Swiss retailers a boost.

A new report from global research and education pioneers at the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP), the University of St.Gallen and The Impact, provides insight into how private wealth management firms can support wealth holders achieve real-world impact.

How do organizations actually handle a large-scale cyber incident when the "internet is on fire"? A new study from the Center for Security and Resilience at the Stockholm School of Economics provides an inside look at how a major Swedish public sector organization responded to the Log4Shell vulnerability - one of the most critical cybersecurity threats of the past decade.Drawing on semi-structured interviews and organizational documenta

How should we evaluate performance in the public sector when so many outcomes depend on factors beyond local control? A new study from the Center for Municipality Governance at the Stockholm School of Economics, published in The Accounting Review, one of the world's top three accounting journals, explores this question through the lens of the "controllability principle".The controllability principle holds that organizations and indi

Some ways of designing products make R&D teams more creative and efficient, while others can hold them back. A new study published by House of Innovation researcher Stefan Haefliger in Industrial and Corporate Change reveals that understanding two distinct aspects of product modularity is key to improving innovation. By treating standardization and reconfigurability as separate dimensions rather than a single concept, the study offers clearer