https://www.naggroup.fi/boston/ Cutting edge leadership thinking. https://www.naggroup.fi/static/images/favicon-96x96.png https://www.naggroup.fi/boston/ https://www.naggroup.fi/boston/ We don't just serve our clients in their strategic and transaction needs. We see our partnership much more broadly. Keeping our clients up-to-date on the cutting edge leadership thinking is one of the roles we think belongs to our part of our relationship bargain. In our knowledge building efforts we cooperate closely with Harvard Business School professors Boris Groysberg and William Kerr, and with MIT professor Jonathan Byrnes. In big data engagements, we cooperate closely with John Wass and Boston based firm Profit Isle. https://www.naggroup.fi/insights/ai-in-the-strategy-process/ https://www.naggroup.fi/insights/ai-in-the-strategy-process/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0300 Findings from AI-led interviews with Finnish executives before the NAG Executive Forum in September 2026: 7 of 8 use AI to sense or interpret, 6 of 8 want AI as a challenger or sparring partner, and none wants AI to take the decision. https://www.naggroup.fi/static/docs/HBR14012025.pdf Increasingly, companies face pressure to sever ties with politically fraught regions, such as Russia, following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Interviews with 16 leaders from 10 companies reveal six lessons for managing crises https://www.naggroup.fi/static/docs/HBR21042023.pdf Scenario planning, traditionally used to prepare for foreseeable risks, falters when unexpected shocks arise. This article draws on insights from Nordic executives who navigated both the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine https://www.naggroup.fi/static/docs/NAG_White_Paper_January_2023.pdf Companies are increasingly confronted with significant, and sometimes existential, events that they would not have been contemplated even six months earlier. Pandemic and the war in Ukraine being prominent examples. Professors Kaplan, Leonard, and Mikes of Harvard and Oxford labeled these events as “novel risks,” suggesting they come “from unforeseen events, from complex combinations of apparently routine events, and from apparently familiar events occurring at an unprecedented scale and scope.” https://www.naggroup.fi/static/docs/HBR28062021.pdf As more and more companies turn to a hybrid model of work more than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, what challenges are leaders likely to face when managing people both in the office and remotely? Interviews with 38 executives in Nordic countries point to four main tensions.. Heikkinen K., Kerr W., Malin M. and Routila P. Business Review (28.6.2021). https://www.naggroup.fi/static/docs/TE06042021.pdf Maailmanlaajuisen pandemian vuosipäivänä fyysinen kanssakäyminen on vähitellen palaamassa työpaikoille. Töitä tehdään kuitenkin tulevaisuudessakin hybridinä, eli myös etänä ja virtuaalisesti. Johtajien on nyt hyvä pohtia sitä, miltä oma hybridiorganisaatio jatkossa näyttää ja miten johtaa sitä https://www.naggroup.fi/static/docs/EBR28092020.pdf Past months have thrown business leaders and their top management teams into a virtual treadmill. Nobody knows how long this uncertainty will last. However, we believe that the practices that the best leaders developed in managing remote work are valuable no matter what future holds https://www.naggroup.fi/static/docs/KL19092020.pdf Viime kuukaudet ovat heittäneet johtajat täysin uuteen ja ennakoimattomaan tilanteeseen. Paluu kohti uutta normaalia käynnistyy vähitellen kesän ja syksyn kuluessa. Tämä uusi normaali tulee olemaan hybridimaailma, jossa yhdistyy fyysinen ja virtuaalinen johtaminen. Ohessa havaintoja parhaiden yritysjohtajien johtamiskäytännöistä, joiden uskomme olevan arvokkaita riippumatta siitä, mitä tulevaisuus tuo tullessaan. https://www.naggroup.fi/static/docs/BostoniLabStaffPaper2-2020.pdf GLOBAL INTEGRATION of business presents established Finnish companies with abundant opportunities alongside deep, existential threats. Take artificial intelligence and advanced technologies https://www.naggroup.fi/static/docs/BoardviewMagazine2019.pdf To stay in the forefront of new technologies, companies are building a presence at the hot spots of knowledge and innovation. William R. Kerr, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, edited by Kalle Heikkinen, Managing Partner, NAG. Boardview Magazine (1/2019). https://www.naggroup.fi/static/docs/KLOptioAug2018.pdf NAG Managing Partner Kalle Heikkinen in Kauppalehti Optio (2018, August 16). https://www.naggroup.fi/static/docs/KLOptioFeb2018.pdf NAG Managing Partner Kalle Heikkinen interviewed in Kauppalehti Optio (2018, February 4). https://www.naggroup.fi/static/docs/NAGTT07062017.pdf Groysberg B, Heikkinen K. Finnish and Global Executives' Finnish and Global Executives' Assessments of Their Firms in 2017. (2017) https://www.naggroup.fi/static/docs/KLJuly2016.pdf Interview of NAG Managing Partner Kalle Heikkinen, (2016, July 18). Kauppalehti. (Only in Finnish). https://www.naggroup.fi/static/docs/NAG_White_Paper_April_2015.pdf NAG White Paper April 2015 by Senior Lecturer at MIT, and the Founder of Profit Isle Jonathan L. Byrnes and NAG Managing Partner Kalle Heikkinen. https://www.naggroup.fi/static/docs/KL19012015.jpg Article by NAG Managing Partner Kalle Heikkinen and Harvard Business School Professor William Kerr (2015, Jan 19). Kauppalehti, p. B 18. (Only in Finnish). https://www.naggroup.fi/static/docs/NAGTT27112014.pdf NAG Research note 11/2014.