Centre for Economic & Social Development

Established in 2005, the Azerbaijan-based think tank works with governments and civil groups to promote both economic reform and social policy reform across the wider region.

Airbnb

A genuinely disruptive brand, Airbnb’s online marketplace has forced hotel chains around the world to rethink their own business models and refresh long-entrenched modes of business.

FIA Business School

Training the next generation of business leaders, FIA Business School incorporates sustainability and technological fluency, so graduates are prepared to meet a wide range of global challenges.

Airbnb, Deliveroo and Uber all owe a philosophical debt to this delivery network, born of a single Glaswegian florist in 1920. The concept of networked delivery and order systems arguably began with Interflora.

Ringing Bells

The Indian telecommunications company developed the Freedom 251. At around $4 per handset, it is by some distance the cheapest smartphone in the world, bringing connectivity to some of the world’s most deprived areas.

Supplements

2016

Centre for Economic & Social Development

Airbnb

FIA Business School

Interflora