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Director’s Desk
By Elias Spirtounias, Executive Director | Business Partners Mar-Apr, 2021

First PersonBy admin April 19, 2021

Three months into 2021 and it’s becoming clear that this will be a very interesting and critical year. On the pandemic front, while a third wave is stretching the limits of the health system and social compliance is being undermined by growing lockdown fatigue, the vaccination program is underway—albeit at a slower than hoped for…

Public / Private: A Perfect Match? Part I
By Alexandra Loli, Publisher | Business Partners, Mar-Apr 2021

Thought LeadersBy admin April 19, 2021

Each time a new government is elected and a new cabinet is formed in Greece, one of the many questions that inevitably come up among forward-thinking citizens is whether this is finally going to be the administration to take advantage of the many possibilities that could arise from public-private partnerships. From allowing projects to be…

DSF Strengthening Cybersecurity
March 31, 2021

AmChamGR NEWSBy admin April 1, 2021

The Silver Lining
By Alexandra Loli, PhD, Publisher | Business Partners, Jan-Feb 2021

ViewpointBy admin February 18, 2021

2020 is over and not a moment too soon. The year we just said goodbye to certainly gave the entire world more than we can chew. But the news isn’t all bad. 2020 was a year we’re all happy to have put behind us. As far as bad years go, it truly had it all:…

Follow the Money
By Angelos Benos, Tax Partner, PwC Greece & Antigoni Tsirou, Tax Senior Manager, PwC Greece | Business Partners, Jan-Feb 2021

Tax TalkBy admin February 18, 2021

One thing we can be certain of is that while everyone expects the future to be a slightly modified version of the present, it usually ends up being very different. Few people anticipated the 2008 economic crisis and even fewer (if any) anticipated the outbreak of the pandemic that has defined our lives and wreaked…

Conscious Citizenship: The Role of Education in Creating a Fair and Sustainable Future
By Business Partners | Jan-Feb 2021

The InterviewBy admin February 18, 2021

Dr. Peggy Pelonis, President of the American Community Schools of Athens, talks to Business Partners about her path to ACS Athens, the changing face of education, the importance of learning how to learn, and the crucial role schools have to play in preparing today’s youth to shape a better tomorrow. What is the American Community…

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 TomorrowBy admin February 18, 2021

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 BusinessBy admin February 18, 2021

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 ReviewBy admin February 18, 2021

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 ToolkitBy admin February 18, 2021

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…