The new Business Forecasts for 2024 survey conducted by Ukraine’s European Business Association (EBA) has identified a range of positive indicators that point to growing confidence within the Ukrainian business community despite Russia’s ongoing invasion. Released on 11 September, the survey found that more than half of respondents (58%), expect to see their business develop […]
Ukrainian business community
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Metro Ukraine CEO Olena Vdovychenko: “Empowered people can do impossible things”
How do you prepare your company for the shock of a full-scale invasion by a military superpower? This is not the kind of management task you will find taught at most business schools or addressed in the average MBA textbook, but it is a situation Ukrainian executives like Metro Ukraine CEO Olena Vdovychenko are all […]
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Vladimir Putin’s biggest mistake was underestimating Ukrainian resilience
Over the past eighteen months, Ukraine’s ability to overcome the destruction and disruption created by Russia’s invasion has been so striking that some outside observers have even questioned the reality of the war. Every so often, video footage of Ukrainians engaged in everyday activities appears on social media accompanied by suggestions that the situation in […]
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Investing in Ukraine
Lenna Koszarny on why today’s Ukraine is a ground-floor investment opportunity powered by “brains, hands, and grains”