Fortune
In Fortune, BCG’s Nikolaus Lang says that between regional conflicts and the resurgence of trade wars, business leaders around the world are placing geopolitics at the top of their agendas. Lang, who is the chair of BCG’s newly launched Center for Geopolitics, explains that many of today’s C-suite executives have always operated in an environment where geopolitics did not play an outsized role. “But in the past five years, [they] experienced a series of exogenous shocks they were simply not prepared for,” he says. “It puts a lot of pressure on leaders.”