Mike Rosenberg is an Assistant Professor at IESE Business School, joining the faculty after working for more than 15 years as a Management Consultant for companies such as Arthur D. Little, A.T. Kearney, and Heidrich & Struggles, working in Europe, North America, and Asia.  Mike teaches long-term strategy, scenario planning and analysis of business problems in IESE’s MBA, Global Executive MBA and Executive Education programmes. In addition to his academic work, Professor Rosenberg routinely consults with leading international companies and is asked to speak on topics relating to strategy, sustainability, and managing global firms. He is author of Strategy and Sustainability: A Hard Nosed Approach to Environmental Sustainability for Business (2014) and co-Editor of Managing Media Businesses: A Game Plan to Navigate Disruption and Uncertainty (2017).

• Chapter 1. Taken by Surprise Chapter 2. Why Many Businesses Have a Hard Time Internalizing Global Complexity Chapter 3. A Managerial Framework for Making Sense of a Complex World Chapter 4. Europe Stumbles Along Chapter 5. North and South America: Locked in an Awkward Embrace Chapter 6. China’s Re-Emergence as a Global Power Chapter 7. Japan, Korea, and South East Asia: The Search for an Identity between two Giants Chapter 8. India at the Crossroads Chapter 9. Africa Rising: Will It Be the Next China? Chapter 10. The Middle East on the Brink of War and Peace Chapter 11. How to Develop a Resilient Business Strategy and Organization for a Complex World?

Noting that political and social conditions in a country may well determine whether investments there return a profit, Rosenberg offers executives and board members of international companies a geopolitical perspective on the world as it is today as a tool kit to think through issues that affect their businesses in that part of the world where they operate. His purpose is not to replace deep analysis and the work of specialized consultants, but to give decision makers sufficient grounding in the field to ask better questions and decide for themselves what to do when faced with contradictory evidence.