Might “Whatever it takes” turn sometime now into “What if?” by Antonis D. Papagiannidis Greek 10-year bonds greeted the month of September with yields higher than 4.2%; crossing the fateful threshold of 4% came just four days earlier, while August had started at less than 3%. May, June and July played out at 3,4%-3.9%. The [...]
A model of how NOT to do media crisis management: a course to be taught at college by Antonis D. Papagiannidis As a model of how NOT to do crisis management in fraught situations where international media are involved – such is the way in which the Greek Government has been dealing with the latest [...]
This issue of Greek Business File looks into the efforts made to make the Greek cities “smart”. It is a challenging task given local authorities have to adjust their ambitious plans to the realities of policy fragmentation, insufficient infrastructure and a very different mindset. In the issue: • Konstantinos Zervas, Mayor of Thessaloniki says that [...]
Greece in the sights of international media by Antonis D. Papagiannidis With Greeks being close to one for every 700 inhabitants of our planet (and one in 40 Europeans, post-Brexit), with Greece’s GDP representing some 0.4% of global GDP (and close to 1% of EU GDP), Greece has been usually over-represented in the interest of [...]
“Greece is a small market of just 10 mn customers. Many business sectors are mature or soon will be. But in today’s global economy, a company which statistically confines itself to satisfy only local demand, will soon find itself pray to competition from multinationals which with new technology and economies of scale, are able to [...]
“Greece is a net energy importer with heavy reliance on oil. Worldwide, oil comprises about two-fifths of primary energy consumption; in Greece it is about three-fifths. Greece is the only country in Europe where demand for oil is anticipated to increase in the near future”. The March 1998 issue of Greek Business File hosts [...]
Greek Business File March-April 2022 Index See the Index here
Can the strategies developed in the field of merchant shipping, be defined, taught and transmitted to a wider audience – especially within the framework of a university approach? George Tsavliris, of the Tsavliris Salvage Group, and Pavlos Emmanouilidis, who teaches Strategic Management and Maritime Strategy at ALBA Graduate School, managed to do so, with the book “Winning Shipping Strategies: [...]
Does TPI rhyme with OMT (of Mario Draghi memory)? by Antonis D. Papagiannidis The “whatever it takes” speech of then relatively fresh at the helm of the ECB Mario Draghi (end-July 2012) gave birth to the Outright Monetary Transactions Programme/OMT. The two, mainly exercising pressure on jittery markets – the OMT “big bazooka” was actually [...]
To explore the “Athens Charter for Business” by Antonis D. Papagiannidis Much talk about democracy, as of lately. The recent shocks arising out of the Ukraine war and the re-emergence of the West/East divide along lines of democracies vs. autocracies (with the former cosying up to the likes of Venezuela or Saudi Arabia, to be [...]
