As part of the EMBA 21 Graduation Ceremony, Ognjen Vukoslavović, CTIO and Management Board Member at Hrvatski Telekom and valedictorian of the class, delivered a speech during the diploma award ceremony. The speech is presented in full below. Dear professors, colleagues, friends, […]

EMBA 21 Graduation Ceremony: Speech by Zvonimir Šimić As part of the EMBA 21 Graduation Ceremony, Zvonimir Šimić, General Director at Optika Anda and valedictorian of the class, delivered a speech during the diploma award ceremony. The speech is presented in full […]

EMBA 21 Graduation Ceremony: Speech by Tali Režun As part of the EMBA 21 Graduation Ceremony, Tali Režun, Vice Dean at COTRUGLI Business School, delivered a speech during the diploma award ceremony. The speech is presented in full below. What incredible energy! […]

For COTRUGLI Alumni “The merchant who cannot read the signs of changing trade routes will find his ships sailing to empty ports.” — Benedetto Cotrugli, 1458 In January 2026, something unprecedented happened, not with fanfare, not with corporate press releases, […]

Benedetto Cotrugli described double-entry bookkeeping in Western literature for the first time. This is what NEO Cotruglian Triple Entry (NCTE) proposes. He did not invent it. But he recognized its beauty, its logic, and its power to create trust between […]

We have entered what I call the NEO world: Networked, Exponential, Orchestrated. Here is the uncomfortable truth: most of us — even high performers — grow linearly. And even linear growth is hard, because life is not a straight line. […]

Why Europe’s Digital Identity Wallet and the AI Governance Debate Both Need the Same Missing Layer In 1458, a Ragusan merchant named Benedetto Cotrugli completed the world’s first known treatise on double-entry bookkeeping — Della Mercatura et del Mercante Perfetto […]

For the past two years, the AI race has been framed in almost childish terms: bigger models, bigger clusters, bigger capex, bigger valuations. The market has behaved as if intelligence were simply a function of scale, and scale a function […]

Imagine you are the CEO of one of the most advanced technology companies in the world. It is a Tuesday morning. You open your news feed. And you discover that your product — your AI system, the one with your […]

How a widening conflict could reshape energy, shipping, inflation, and strategic positioning — and what COTRUGLI alumni should be asking now. I. Are We Looking at a Short Campaign — or the Opening Phase of Something Longer? The first question […]