The financial health of the European aviation sector has improved markedly over the last five years. But it is a handful of large airlines that have disproportionately benefited. Many airlines struggle to generate adequate financial returns and several have failed recently. As competition intensifies, airlines need to objectively assess their…
What are the design fundamentals of an effective Integrated Care System? The challenge facing the Australian healthcare system Australia’s healthcare system is under increasing pressure, driven by rising demands and shifting patient expectations. In order to best meet the demand for healthcare services, it is of growing importance that the…
The Challenges Facing NHS Providers NHS Trusts and FTs were designed to be the ‘delivery units’ of the NHS provider sector and, in particular, FTs were designed to be autonomous and competing organisations. Yet this approach has created inefficiencies, unwarranted variation and forced organisations to make decisions out of organisational…
On January 1, 2020, Californians, through the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), will gain unprecedented control over their personal data and rights to privacy, as well as the legal recourse to take action against companies who fail to protect those rights. According to the regulation, Californians will finally be able…
Kevin Kajiwara (KK): Welcome to today’s Teneo Insights call on Hong Kong and the continued unrest there, and the potential path to a resolution. I’m Kevin Kajiwara, co-President of Teneo’s Political Risk Advisory business. Guiding us through today’s conversation, I’m joined by three of my colleagues: Damien Ryan, the CEO…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservatives have won a clear majority of 80 seats in the general election. The opposition Labour party collapsed, while the Liberal Democrats also lost seats. The other big winners were the Scottish Nationalists (SNP). As a result, Johnson’s Brexit deal will now swiftly be passed through…
The fall of Bolivia’s Evo Morales has strongly homegrown causes but shares common threads with recent upheaval in the region. Overlapping issues behind protests include inequality, lack of political renewal, and unmet expectations. The role of the military fits traditional patterns but it is too early to say what its…
On November 5, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3-2 along party lines to issue proposed rules governing the submission and resubmission of shareholder proposals for inclusion in company proxy statements and establishing new regulations for proxy advisory firms. The proposed rules include a wish list of changes long…
The 21st century will be dominated by four major trends (and myriad sub and derivative trends) that corporate decision-makers and investors will have to successfully navigate in order to thrive and perhaps survive. The rise of China and the nature of its relations with the United States; climate change; the…
A few months, ago a middle-aged voter in rural Wales told me why he had voted to leave the European Union in the referendum in 2016. “I found out,” he said solemnly, “that they were going to abolish the Queen.” While there were many misconceptions on both sides of the…
Teneo’s Kevin Kajiwara sits down with Teneo Senior Advisor and current Chairman and CEO of VEON, Ursula Burns and Teneo Senior Advisor and current Chairman of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Pat Russo, to discuss life in the C-Suite, diversity, and the changing role of boards within a company. Kevin Kajiwara (KK): The…
We are in the midst of two concurrent and unprecedented business events. The current economic cycle is the longest in U.S. history, at over ten years, and we are enjoying the longest bull market in history that has seen the S&P 500 rise from 676 in March of 2009 to…