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Women in Business 2025 Women in Business 2025

Our latest Women in Business report reveals the pace towards parity in mid-market firms isn’t moving fast enough. A young woman starting her career today will be working for more than a quarter of a century before she can expect to work at a mid-market firm with gender parity in top senior roles. Our research explores how gender balanced teams can bring better business performance – and with small and mid-market firms making up the largest part of the global economy [i], now is the time to keep up the pressure.

1 min read | 22 Oct 2025

Trade in transition Trade in transition

In the next edition of Grant Thornton’s series on trending international insights, we examine how a shifting economic landscape can offer the mid-market an opportunity to grow while their larger counterparts opt to ‘wait and see.’

2 min read | 22 Oct 2025

Thriving through disruption Thriving through disruption

In the next edition of Grant Thornton’s series on trending international insights, we examine how disruption can be an opportunity for growth and differentiate mid-market firms from competitors.

1 min read | 29 Oct 2025

GrowthiQ How to give up the CEO’s chair

Giving up the CEO role is one of the toughest challenges an entrepreneur will face, but doing it successfully will help their business to grow. This article draws on experience of Swedish CEOs and advisers to help business leaders make the transition smoothly.

09 Jun 2015

International Business Report (IBR) Outsourcing: Beyond technical expertise

Companies outsource back-office business processes mainly to boost efficiency and reduce costs. Payroll, HR and accounting processes – the most common to be outsourced – are heavily transactional, and many companies determine that external specialists can execute these far more cost-effectively than they can themselves.

01 Jun 2015

Beyond Borders Why businesses expand overseas

More businesses are spurred on by a ‘fear of missing out’ (known colloquially as ‘FOMO’) than by a positive desire for growth when expanding abroad, according to new research from Grant Thornton's International Business Report (IBR). Business leaders are a fifth more likely to expand when presented with a negatively framed scenario than with the exact same scenario that was framed positively.

27 May 2015

Blog Businesses profit from economic recovery

Ed Nusbaum advises businesses not to forget the pain of the financial crisis: History will look back on the financial crisis that began in 2008 as a major shock to the global economy. IMF managing director, Christine Lagarde, has talked about the "scars" it left behind. Just as when a sportsman or woman suffers a severe injury, it takes time for economies to rediscover their best form.

27 May 2015

International Business Report (IBR) Focus on Latin America

Drawing on data and insight from the Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR), the Grant Thornton Global Dynamism Index (GDI), the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), this short report considers the outlook for Latin America in 2015

21 May 2015

Briefing Can a Capital Markets Union help Europe’s MSBs?

The European Commission (EC) recently announced plans to explore creating more integrated and deeper capital markets across its 28 Member States. Targeting a 2019 launch, the Capital Markets Union (CMU) aims to streamline financial markets and allow businesses access to more diverse financing sources, regardless of geographic location within the EU. Grant Thornton recently submitted recommendations to the EC on those efforts we believe can most help mid-sized businesses (MSBs) benefit from the proposal.

20 May 2015

Blog Digital: the next frontier for hotels

Established players in the hospitality and tourism sector are having to work harder than ever to find growth. A series of recent events have disrupted demand in the short-term, but longer term, the rise of the digital economy is threatening traditional operating models and sales channels. Businesses in the sector need to be alive to the challenges posed by online travel agencies and aggregators (OTAs), as they try to build their brand and maintain market share.

19 May 2015

International Business Report (IBR) The future of Europe 2015

The European recovery is gaining momentum according to Grant Thornton's International Business Report (IBR). However, drawing on interviews with more than 1,100 regional executives, the report uncovers a number of threats, from Greek debt negotiations to high unemployment, which continue to undermine European stability and long-term business growth prospects.

18 May 2015

GrowthiQ Using crowdfunding to grow

Video case study: UK company Berry White used crowdfunding platform CrowdCube to scale up internationally. Here's how they did it.

12 May 2015

Tax BEPS - Country by Country Reporting

Effective management of country-by-country reporting is going to require a new way of looking at transfer pricing

05 May 2015

Blog Get close to the professors

Accountants should work more closely with academia. That was my key takeaway from a trip to Edinburgh last week for the British Accounting and Finance Association meet. It is clear that the academics welcome input from practitioners and I found myself volunteering to share some of my experiences with their students. And I got the impression that lecturers would welcome much more practical input at all stages of research and in all aspects of their work.

05 May 2015

International Business Report (IBR) European businesses worried about Brexit

Businesses across Europe have greater concern about the prospect of the UK leaving the EU than Greece leaving the eurozone, according to new research from Grant Thornton. This comes just as the UK is about to go the polls in an election where a potential EU referendum is a major policy battleground, and just ahead of Greece’s deadline to repay almost €1billion to the International Monetary Fund in May.

30 Apr 2015

GrowthiQ Going beyond borders

Advances in technology and logistics allow businesses to expand across borders more easily, but understanding and overcoming the psychological barriers to expansion abroad is crucial to giving your global growth plans a head-start.

29 Apr 2015

Blog The future of trade: thoughts from the IMF

Dominic King, Editor - global research, draws on a session at the 2015 IMF/World Bank Spring Conference to ask why regional trade deals are trumping a multilateral agreement and how the digital economy is reshaping globalisation.

23 Apr 2015

Blog Tackling tax evasion: thoughts from the IMF

Day three at the IMF: Tackling tax evasion: thoughts from the IMF

19 Apr 2015

Blog Ageing populations: thoughts from the IMF

Day two at the IMF: The challenges and opportunities posed by ageing populations

17 Apr 2015

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