Forward for the Family: A Eurobank Initiative to Address Demographic Decline
By Business Partners | Sept-Oct 2021

Looking to the future, and linking Greece’s bicentennial milestone—200 years since the beginning of the Greek War of Independence—with the challenges facing the country today, Eurobank is highlighting the crucial need to take urgent action to tackle Greece’s demographic decline. Aiming to take a leading role in reversing Greece’s declining birth rate, Eurobank launched its…

Pandemic and Telework: Opportunities and Challenges
By Dr. Dionysis Dionysiou, Associate Professor of Organization and Management and Academic Director of the MSc in Strategic Human Resource Management, Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece | Business Partners, Sept-Oct 2021

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, employees and enterprises in Greece were forced to shift to telework aka remote working. While in some EU countries, over 30% of employees worked outside their employers’ premises before the pandemic, in Greece the percentage was one of the lowest (5.3%), comprising mainly self-employed individuals and exhibiting discrepancies…

Learning and the New Normal
By Kostas Axarloglou, Dean, Professor of International Business and Strategy, Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece | Business Partners, Jul-Aug 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic is a disruption in our everyday lives taken straight out of a book: It has affected all countries, all economies, all industries, all of us, and in an (almost) identical way. The Covid-19 pandemic started unexpectedly and out of nowhere, developed incredibly fast, spread rapidly from one country to the next, expanded…

ESG and Climate Change: What Will the Impact Be for Businesses Moving Forward?
By Kleopatra Kalogeropoulou, International Liaison Partner, CPA, ACA, at BDO Greece | Business Partners, Jul-Aug 2021

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG). Three key words that are going to drive significant changes in corporate reporting. There currently exist a plethora of voluntary and diverse corporate reporting frameworks, some of which a number of, mainly large, companies have chosen to adopt. However, the reporting is inconsistent due to the differing requirements of those…