The Need for Flexibility in the New Hybrid Workplace
By Pantelis Kouzis, General Manager, EKA Hellas | Business Partners Jul-Aug 2022

The New Work

As workers reluctantly return to the office and the world shifts toward hybrid work models, companies are called upon to reexamine traditional notions of control and redefine workplace flexibility. For most people, one of the best elements of working from home was the increased autonomy and flexibility that they enjoyed in terms of both time…

Biting the Bullet: When Not Doing International Business Might Be a Moral Imperative
By Urs Mueller, Associate Professor of Practice at SDA Bocconi; Affiliate Program Director at ESMT Berlin; and visiting lecturer (Executive MBA Program) at Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece | Business Partners Jul-Aug 2022

ALBA Business Review

Should Western firms remain operating in or selling to Russia? Can Greek shipping companies continue to transport Russian oil in good conscience despite the EU embargo? Should corporations do business in countries that continue actively developing stronger economic ties with Russia? What about pursuing projects that, ultimately, contravene climate goals? How to deal with the…

Presenting AmChamGR’s Circular Economy Committee: Mapping Out a Litter Free Future
By Business Partners | Jul-Aug 2022

Special Feature

Nikolaos Bakatselos President, American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce Message from the President We are facing an unprecedented climate and biodiversity crisis that’s only about to get worse. Our habit of overproducing and overconsuming is first and foremost to blame; human-driven resource extraction and processing are responsible for more than 90% of global biodiversity loss and water…

Redefining Sustainability
By Alexandra Loli, PhD | Business Partners, Jul-Aug 2022

Thought Leaders

On September 26 this year, AmChamGR will convene its 20th annual Corporate Responsibility Conference, titled Headwinds: Endure. Adapt. Persevere. Embrace the Changing Future of Sustainability. To honor this anniversary, and working with CR Committee Chair Pakis Papademetriou and CR Committee Coordinator Angela Boyatzis, Business Partners reached out to some of the country’s leading Thought Leaders…

Synergia: Strengthening Transatlantic Cooperation, Investment and Growth
By Business Partners | Jul-Aug 2022

The Interview

A prominent figure in the Greek-American community, an attorney, a philanthropist, a self-made man who has stood at the helm of a successful enterprise, and, since formally presenting his credentials to the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou on May 10 this year, the United States Ambassador to Greece. Here, Ambassador George James Tsunis…

New Horizons
By Business Partners | May-Jun 2022

The Interview

Having successfully overcome incredible challenges and navigated its way through successive national and global crises, Greece now stands at the dawn of a new era, forging a future for itself as a capable and worthy global player. What do you think are the key factors behind this transformation? Greece stands at the precipice of a…