When geopolitics shifted from tailwind to headwind

Srividya Jandhyala is a professor of Management at ESSEC Business School in Singapore. Her research focuses on global strategy, geopolitics, and international business. She is the author of the best-selling book 'The Great Disruption: How Geopolitics is Changing Companies, Managers, and Work'. Before ESSEC, she was a Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University. She also served on the faculty of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and she received her PhD in Management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In this podcast, we discuss:

1. Geopolitics as a Structural Headwind
2. The End of the "Flat World"
3. Why Corporate Nationality Trumps Product
4. Lessons from Mining and Energy Sectors
5. The Jenga Tower of Global Friction
6. Sovereign AI and Geopolitical Tech
7. China's "Singapore" Playbook
8. The Erosion of the Rules-Based Order
9. Localization and the "Societal License" to Operate
10. The Shift from "Event-Based" Thinking