The First 100 Days of the New President
By Dr. Nicholas Nikolaidis, Attorney at Law, Partner, NOA - John & Maria Nikolaidis and Associates, LLB, LLM, Ph.D. in Political Science | Business Partners, Jan-Feb 2021

Shaping Tomorrow

Not since Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated, in the midst of the Great Depression, has an incoming president had to deal with such a difficult situation as that facing Joe Biden. With the daily death toll from Covid-19 climbing to over 4,000 people, the economy devastated by the pandemic and geopolitical challenges from China and…

Microsoft: Our Security Story
By Vangelis Morfis, Director of Marketing and Operations, Microsoft Hellas, Cyprus, Malta | Business Partners, Jan-Feb 2021

Growth for Business

Microsoft recently announced a 40% YOY increase in security revenue—a testament to the trust our customers have placed in us. What drives us now is creating a true Zero Trust mindset: the cornerstone of effective protection and organizational resilience and the future of security. What makes us different? Our approach to security is unique in…

The Roles of the Manager and the Employee in the Flexible Enterprise
By Dr. Dionysis Dionysiou, Associate Professor of Organization and Management, Academic Director of the MSc in Strategic Human Resources Management, Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece | Business Partners, Jan-Feb 2021

ALBA Business Review

With the business environment becoming more and more complex, volatile and unpredictable, more and more businesses are implementing broad organizational changes that include transitioning from traditional forms of hierarchy to more flexible ones, based on networks of autonomous, polymorphous groups. n today’s demanding business environment, the team is the basic “structural” element since the complexity…

Post-Pandemic Office Needs: Time for an Experience that’s Fundamentally Better
By Pantelis Kouzis, General Manager, EKA Hellas | Business Partners, Jan-Feb 2021

Business Toolkit

People are having vastly different experiences while working from home — experiences that are shaping their expectations for what they want work to be like in the future. The pandemic has reshaped many aspects of our lives, including where and how people want to work. Their experiences working from home, and what they face when…

How Taxation Holds Up the Pillars of Sustainable Development: Economy – Society – Environment
By Stavros Kostas, Economist, Chair of AmChamGR’s Taxation Committee | Business Partners, Jan-Feb 2021

Sustainability

To truly appreciate the significance of taxation’s contribution to paving the way to sustainable development, we must first examine its role in upholding the individual pillars of such development, such as society and the environment. To understand the role of taxation in driving sustainable development, we must go beyond the temporary and purely economic and…

Business as Usual
By Alexandros Costopoulos, CEO of Foresight Strategy and Communications and Secretary General of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce | Business Partners, Nov-Dec 2020

Viewpoint

Every four years the race for the White House dominates the attention of people around the world, but this year’s elections have been of the most critical of our times. Just like the rest of the world, the United States has changed over the last years through challenges that included economic crises, rising middle class…

GR for Growth
By Business Partners | Nov-Dec 2020

The Interview

Following months of negotiations between the US tech giant and the Greek government, in October this year Microsoft announced a significant technology commitment to support the people, government and businesses of all sizes in Greece with technology and resources to create new opportunities for growth. Business Partners spoke to Theodosis Michalopoulos, General Manager of Microsoft…