03/31/2025

‘We’re Just Hanging on for Dear Life’

How CEOs are navigating increasing geopolitical uncertainty

We convened a group of CEOs yesterday, in partnership with Boston Consulting Group, to share perspectives on how they’re managing differently. Nikolaus Lang, who heads the BCG Henderson Institute and chairs its Center for Geopolitics, notes that "companies need to build up a geopolitical muscle around talent, functions, and processes."

That’s become even more of an imperative in recent weeks as U.S. policy takes a new direction, with Vice President JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference providing “the clearest wake-up call,” says Lang, that old rules and alliances are no longer a given.

Here are edited highlights of what some of the CEOs had to say.

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