University of St. Gallen

carry about health, the health of self-employed.

And there are some research, a recent one, 2026, from the University of St. Gallen, found that self-employed workers show flatter daily cortisol curve and higher cortisol levels in the evening, which is a sign of impaired ability to recover from work.

So this is the biological signature of chronic stress.

And so there are about 45% of self-employed workers who suffer of some mental health issues, including chronic stress.

Tamara understands HR not as theory, but as work that has to hold up across plants, across leaders, cultures, and all of the frontline realities.

She is also a doctoral researcher at the University of St. Gallen, where her work looked at inclusive leadership training and found something HR leaders should really take seriously.

The same training can land very differently depending on the leader and depending on that context.

So some people will benefit, some people push back, and the average can hide that split.

You know, one is that, of course, peer reviews, especially transnational ones, have always involved, you know, countries which have, you know, differing commitments to democracy, right? And so, you know, scholars who criticize transnational networks say, sometimes overlook the fact that, you know, maybe in some of these jurisdictions, you know, the domestic decision-making process is not so, you know, legitimate from, or at least we are not able to kind of assess its legitimacy externally and certainly cannot be assumed to be democratic.

Interestingly enough, there was a group of scholars at the University of St. Gallen who were studying the extent to which actually participation by officials in transnational regulatory networks might enhance domestic democracy because they learn certain ways of discussing certain acceptable forms of deliberating certain ways of framing arguments that they can take back home.

And therefore, even if the domestic environment is not particularly democratic or deliberative, that some of these deliberative practices that are, you know, in a way inherent in the transnational networked cooperation might in a way be brought back home.

And so that's one mechanism that I think is possible, right? That you...

I'll just read off the handful of the top schools.

So the number one master's in management program according to the FT, is University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Nova School came in second.

They're in Portugal, just outside of Lisbon.