CEO Surveys
Oxford Business Group (OBG) CEO Surveys are carefully designed to measure business sentiment among corporate leaders (CEO or equivalent) across a full range of industries, company sizes and specialties, and gauge their outlook for the next 12 months on a confidential basis.
The data gathered allows us to assess business sentiment within a given country, as well as across regions and globally, using a mixture of data visualisation and analysis from OBG Managing Editors.
Global CEO Survey: What is on the horizon for emerging markets?
While the recovery period following the Covid-19 pandemic saw the unlocking of major capital in emerging markets, inflationary pressures, fluctuating commodity prices and geopolitical concerns have since tempered the global economic outlook for 2023. Balancing opportunity and risk has become a priority for shareholders and investors, but emerging markets have remained resilient...
ESG CEO Survey: Is the board room getting greener?
Across government departments, corporate board rooms and management meetings, the implementation of environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies is at the forefront of current planning. It is not just a symbolic tick in the box either. Shareholders and investors are increasingly factoring ESG strategy and trajectory into their decision-making, and consumers are similarly becoming...
Next steps: Where do Egyptian business leaders see things heading in 2021?
A relevant market straddling both Africa and the Middle East, Egypt’s dynamic and varied economy as well as its large and fast growing population have made the country a key investment centre across both of these regions for everything from venture capital to oil and gas. According to the IMF, the country will be the MENA region’s only market to not enter recession this year and one of the few globally...
Crisis management: How are CEOs responding to the pandemic?
The Covid-19 pandemic that spread quickly around the world after emerging in the city of Wuhan in December 2019 has been hard for many and extremely tragic for some. There are currently over 26.5m cases worldwide and almost 900,000 people have succumbed to the virus. Unofficially both figures are expected to be much higher, with the lack of testing and diagnosis in some parts of the world...
Creative disruption: How CEOs expect Covid-19 to reshape business in the region
While Latin America as a whole has struggled to extend the growth and productivity gains it made in the early 2010s, it still remains an appealing and dynamic region to do business. However, the onset of Covid-19 in early 2020 added another layer of complexity to ongoing efforts to improve business environments, from Baja California to Buenos Aires. Although government responses in the...