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The IBCircle Think Tank

The best business insights don’t usually come from algorithms or consulting frameworks. They come from people who have done the work — who have navigated the market entries, built the companies, and made the decisions under the same conditions you face today.

The IBCircle Think Tank captures these in two ways: through our quarterly Top Line Considerations for Business Leaders series, authored by senior IBCircle practitioners, and through our flagship Think Tank Reports, drawn from our invitation-only CEO and CFO roundtable events and ongoing discussions, collaborations and sharing.

Both are written by practitioners. Both are built for leaders who need to act — not just to read.

Latest Publications

  • The forces reshaping global business in 2026 — written by a practitioner who has navigated them for thirty years. Essential reading for internationally active leaders.

    This inaugural volume covers the key forces reshaping global business; global growth outlook 2025-2026; energy: enabler, bottleneck and opportunity; strategic adaptations for growth and five concrete action items for your management team to act on before the end of Q3 2026.

    IBCircle Members: $100 · Non-Members: $250

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  • Four volumes. Four IBCircle practitioners. One annual price — and the most efficient way to stay ahead of the global business conversation.

    Each quarterly volume tackles a different dimension of the global business environment, written by a senior IBCircle member with deep operational expertise in that domain. Vol. 1 is available now.

    Upcoming volumes are Energy, AI & the New Industrial Order (Q3/2026); Capital Markets & the Multipolar World (Q4/2026); The Talent & Leadership Imperative (Q1/2027).

    Subscribe now and save — plus receive priority access to each new volume the moment it is released.

    IBCircle Members: $299/year · Non-Members: $699/year

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  • Shifting Global Dynamics for Growth: Critical Insights for Global Business Leaders

    On April 16, 2026, IBCircle convened eight world-class experts at Rocky Mountain Public Media in Denver for a candid, off-the-record CEO and CFO roundtable. No slides. No prepared remarks. Just one of the most direct conversations about where global growth is heading — and what business leaders must do about it — that we have hosted in IBCircle's 22-year history.

    This report captures everything: re-globalization and the two-economy framework; energy as enabler and bottleneck; the natural resources supercycle; China — the local imperative; Nordic resilience; tariffs, AI, and the leadership imperative of nonlinear growth. Plus five strategic priorities drawn directly from the collective intelligence of the room.

    Featuring insights from: Sumanth Channabasappa · Bob Mulverhill · David Cole · Jean Liu · Jeff Hasenfratz · Bjorn Leigvold · Espen Jansen · Nicole Zimmermann

    IBCircle Members: $250 · Non-Members: $397

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