| 20-Dec-2023
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| 20-Dec-2023
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| 22-Dec-2023
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New rules for America’s green-hydrogen industry are controversial |
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| 26-Dec-2023
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China is shoring up the great firewall for the AI age |
The Communist Party has created a thriving but sanitised digital economy. Can it do the same with artificial intelligence?
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| 28-Dec-2023
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Who was the best CEO of 2023? |
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| 1-Jan-2024
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Welcome to the era of AI nationalism |
Sovereigns the world over are racing to control their technological destinies
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| 1-Jan-2024
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A new year’s message from the CEO |
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| 3-Jan-2024
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Meet the shrewdest operators in today’s oil markets |
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| 4-Jan-2024
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The Chinese Communist Party wants (a bit) less consumer internet |
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| 4-Jan-2024
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Can Sino-Arabian business ties replace Sino-American ones? |
The Middle Kingdom gets cosy with the Middle East
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| 4-Jan-2024
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Saudi Arabia has an unlikely solar star |
ACWA Power has green ambitions beyond its desert home
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| 8-Jan-2024
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Does Europe at last have an answer to Silicon Valley? |
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| 9-Jan-2024
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Faulty door plugs open old wounds at Boeing |
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| 10-Jan-2024
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Is Harvard Business School too woke? |
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| 11-Jan-2024
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AI can transform education for the better |
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| 11-Jan-2024
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When your colleagues are also your rivals |
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| 11-Jan-2024
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Saudi Arabia wants to be the Saudi Arabia of minerals |
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| 11-Jan-2024
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German farmers and train drivers are scaring the country’s bosses |
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| 15-Jan-2024
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China may be losing its sway over Taiwanese business |
The election of a pro-independence president will intensify bullying from Beijing
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| 16-Jan-2024
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Many CEOs fear a second Trump term would be worse than the first |
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| 17-Jan-2024
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The bosses of OpenAI and Microsoft talk to The Economist |
Tech’s best bromance reflects on regulation, the future of AI and how to control superhuman intelligence
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| 18-Jan-2024
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Donald Trump’s populism is turning off corporate donors |
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| 18-Jan-2024
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Donald Trump’s tax cuts would add to American growth—and debt |
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| 18-Jan-2024
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Why BlackRock is betting billions on infrastructure |
Demand for investment is soaring thanks to decarbonisation, digitisation and deglobalisation
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| 18-Jan-2024
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A $35bn mega-merger strengthens a quiet chip duopoly |
The purchase of Ansys by Synopsys is a bet on the ubiquity of semiconductors
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| 18-Jan-2024
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Can Arc’teryx’s owner revive Chinese IPOs in America? |
Amer and its Chinese parent, Anta, eye a $1bn New York listing
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| 18-Jan-2024
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Companies run to their own annual rhythms |
Seasonality in firms, from budgeting cycles to bonus rounds
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| 21-Jan-2024
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Why America’s controls on sales of AI tech to China are so leaky |
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| 24-Jan-2024
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India’s businessmen like Narendra Modi. They also fear him |
Company bosses are grateful for a strong economy, but worried about retribution
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| 24-Jan-2024
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What could bring Apple down? |
Trustbusters, platform shifts and geopolitics could all hurt the iPhone-maker
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| 25-Jan-2024
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Can MSCI drag private markets out of the shadows? |
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| 25-Jan-2024
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Why you should never retire |
Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling
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| 29-Jan-2024
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Many family firms lack heirs. Unrelated help is at hand |
How to succeed when you have no successor
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| 29-Jan-2024
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Jürgen Klopp and the importance of energy |
The resignation of a football manager is a reminder of a CEO superpower
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| 31-Jan-2024
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Could AMD break Nvidia’s chokehold on chips? |
Taking on the top AI chipmaker will be hard—but maybe not impossible
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| 31-Jan-2024
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Apple’s Vision Pro headset ushers in a new era of personal technology |
Tech firms are racing to build the gadget that supplants the smartphone
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| 1-Feb-2024
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Joe Biden’s limits on LNG exports won’t help the climate |
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| 1-Feb-2024
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How much should TikTok fear a resurgent Donald Trump? |
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| 1-Feb-2024
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Rolls-Royce goes electric—in style |
Battery power suits the priciest vehicles
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| 4-Feb-2024
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America’s economy is booming. So why are bosses worried? |
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| 6-Feb-2024
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Musk v Zuckerberg: who’s winning? |
One burned billions, the other has earned them
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| 8-Feb-2024
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Vladimir Putin wants to catch up with the West in AI |
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| 8-Feb-2024
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Fairness: the hidden currency of the workplace |
It animates bosses, employees and customers alike
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| 8-Feb-2024
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Can Giorgia Meloni reinvigorate Italia SpA? |
Why Italian companies find it so hard to grow
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| 8-Feb-2024
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Media companies club together for a joint sport-streamer |
Disney, Fox and Warner Bros Discovery have a new game plan
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| 8-Feb-2024
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Samsung’s boss avoids prison, again |
Lee Jae-yong’s acquittal will benefit him, but not necessary South Korea
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| 13-Feb-2024
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China is quietly reducing its reliance on foreign chip technology |
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| 15-Feb-2024
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The row over US Steel shows the new meaning of national security |
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| 15-Feb-2024
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How worried should Amazon be about Shein and Temu? |
Dirt-cheap products and marketing splurges are catching clicks
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| 15-Feb-2024
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How to benefit from the conversations you have at work |
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| 15-Feb-2024
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Why Costco is so loved |
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| 15-Feb-2024
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Suitors are wooing Paramount |
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| 15-Feb-2024
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Japan’s semiconductor toolmakers are booming |
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| 18-Feb-2024
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Why the world’s mining companies are so stingy |
The energy transition requires vast quantities of metals. But miners are reluctant to invest
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| 20-Feb-2024
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Is running a top university America’s hardest job? |
Balancing a motley crew of interested parties is becoming nearly impossible
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| 22-Feb-2024
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TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America |
Truculent workers and red tape have slowed its efforts in Arizona
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| 22-Feb-2024
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The age of the unicorn is over |
Don’t expect AI to bring it back
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| 22-Feb-2024
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The making of a PowerPoint slide |
Loosely based on almost-true events
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| 22-Feb-2024
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Why does landlocked Eswatini have a ship registry? |
Countries like it may be helping to fuel the growth of a “dark fleet”
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| 22-Feb-2024
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The world’s biggest maker of spectacles wants to be a tech firm |
Luxottica is experimenting with smart glasses and built-in hearing aids
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| 26-Feb-2024
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Meet the French startup hoping to take on OpenAI |
Mistral unveils its latest large language model—and a deal with Microsoft
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| 29-Feb-2024
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How Argentine businessmen size up Javier Milei |
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| 29-Feb-2024
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Car shows in the West are in terminal decline |
Chinese firms are keeping them on life support
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| 29-Feb-2024
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Can whisky conquer Chinese palates? |
Western spirit pedlars think so
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| 29-Feb-2024
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Why you should lose your temper at work |
Sometimes. And without throwing anything
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| 29-Feb-2024
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Western multinationals’ Russian dilemmas |
Staying in Russia carries risks. So does leaving
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| 29-Feb-2024
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How businesses are actually using generative AI |
Some experiments with chatbots are more useful than others
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| 3-Mar-2024
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Apple is right not to rush headlong into generative AI |
One day the Vision Pro could exploit the technology to the full
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| 4-Mar-2024
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The battle over the trillion-dollar weight-loss bonanza |
Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are making blockbuster drugs. Can they maintain their lead?
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| 6-Mar-2024
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OpenAI’s legal battles are not putting off customers—yet |
Elon Musk, the New York Times and trustbusters all want a piece of the startup
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| 7-Mar-2024
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Brain-boosting substances are all the rage |
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| 7-Mar-2024
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More women are getting onto corporate boards. Good |
Our annual measure of the role and influence of women in the workforce
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| 7-Mar-2024
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Can Bayer recover from its chronic pain? |
The Aspirin-maker is suffering from complications of its acquisition of Monsanto
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| 7-Mar-2024
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How can firms pass on tacit knowledge? |
The problem of knowing what your co-workers know
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| 11-Mar-2024
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Is Saudi Aramco cooling on crude oil? |
Don’t bet on it
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| 12-Mar-2024
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Can lorries go green faster? |
The long road to zero-emission commercial vehicles
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| 13-Mar-2024
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Will TikTok still exist in America? |
As Congress starts the clock on a ban, the app must consider its options
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| 14-Mar-2024
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Elon Musk is not alone in having Delaware in his sights |
Sin City does, too
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| 14-Mar-2024
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Every location has got worse for getting actual work done |
Working from nowhere
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| 14-Mar-2024
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Why are Chinese nationalists turning on Chinese brands? |
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| 17-Mar-2024
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Just how rich are businesses getting in the AI gold rush? |
Nvidia and Microsoft are not the only winners
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| 20-Mar-2024
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Can anything stop Nvidia’s Jensen Huang? |
He has become the generative-AI showman of our time
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| 21-Mar-2024
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Europe wants startups to do AI with supercomputers |
The idea is appealing on paper but fraught in practice
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| 21-Mar-2024
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Demand is soaring for capitalism’s emergency surgeons |
As corporate defaults rise, advisers on restructuring are raking it in
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| 21-Mar-2024
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Luxury hotels are having a glorious moment |
Rich travellers mean rich returns for investors
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| 21-Mar-2024
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Could Aldi’s supermarkets conquer America? |
The European discount chain is the fastest-growing retailer across the Atlantic
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| 21-Mar-2024
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TikTok is not the only Chinese app thriving in America |
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| 21-Mar-2024
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The secret to career success may well be off to the side |
The case for being more like a crab
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| 22-Mar-2024
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America’s trustbusters wage war on Apple |
Whatever the outcome, a wide-ranging antitrust case will hurt the firm
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| 25-Mar-2024
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Dave Calhoun bows out as chief executive of Boeing |
The beleaguered aerospace giant announces a management shake-up
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| 25-Mar-2024
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Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big? |
The golden age for CEO whisperers may be coming to an end
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| 27-Mar-2024
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Meet the digital David taking on the Google Goliath |
Jeff Green has built The Trade Desk into a plucky online-advertising powerhouse
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| 27-Mar-2024
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Dave Calhoun bows out as chief executive of Boeing |
The beleaguered aerospace giant announces a management shake-up
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| 27-Mar-2024
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Regulators are forcing big tech to rethink its AI strategy |
Startup acquisitions have been replaced by hiring sprees and tight partnerships
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| 27-Mar-2024
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The pros and cons of corporate uniforms |
A quarter of the American workforce wears one. Why?
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| 27-Mar-2024
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A marketing victory for Nike is a business win for Adidas |
The contest of the sportswear giants heats up
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| 27-Mar-2024
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Making accounting sexy again |
The profession needs a makeover to attract newcomers
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| 2-Apr-2024
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Why Japan Inc is no longer in thrall to America |
As the home of capitalism turns protectionist, Japan is opening up
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| 2-Apr-2024
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Will GE do better as three companies than as one? |
How to dismantle an industrial icon
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| 3-Apr-2024
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The mind-bending new rules for doing business in China |
Xi Jinping is sending mixed messages to Western bosses and investors
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| 3-Apr-2024
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Bob Iger has defeated Nelson Peltz at Disney. Now what? |
The Magic Kingdom’s transformation is far from over
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| 4-Apr-2024
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India’s biggest conglomerate takes on chipmaking |
Tata Group goes into growth mode
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| 4-Apr-2024
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Meet the French oil major that balances growth and greenery |
TotalEnergies has pulled off something its rivals haven’t
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| 4-Apr-2024
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The six rules of fire drills |
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| 6-Apr-2024
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Airbnb bookings for the solar eclipse reach astronomical levels |
Limited inventory and opportunistic travellers have kept the windfall in check
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| 7-Apr-2024
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Think Tesla is in trouble? Pity even more its wannabe EV rivals |
A fleet of electric-car startups is struggling to stay in business
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| 11-Apr-2024
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Generative AI has a clean-energy problem |
What happens when the AI revolution meets the energy transition
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| 11-Apr-2024
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TSMC’s American chipmaking plans grow $25bn more ambitious |
They still pale next to its Taiwanese endeavours
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| 11-Apr-2024
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Productivity gurus through time: a match-up |
James Clear v Arnold Bennett
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| 11-Apr-2024
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Who wields the power in the world’s supply chains? |
Inventories offer a clue
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| 14-Apr-2024
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Generative AI is a marvel. Is it also built on theft? |
The wonder-technology faces accusations of copyright infringement
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| 15-Apr-2024
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America hits Chinese biotech—and its own drugmakers |
A sweeping bill in Congress could cost patients at home
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| 18-Apr-2024
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Who will lead the LVMH luxury empire? |
Bernard Arnault sizes up his heirs apparent
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| 18-Apr-2024
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The lessons of woke Scrabble |
When heritage meets innovation
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| 18-Apr-2024
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What is weighing on CEOs’ minds this earnings season? |
Shareholder letters are proving to be bleakly prophetic
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| 22-Apr-2024
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How to build a global business empire in the 21st century |
Disney, Ford, Microsoft and the age of the quasi-merger
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| 24-Apr-2024
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Congress tells China: sell TikTok or we’ll ban it |
Only America’s courts can save the video app now
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| 24-Apr-2024
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Tesla faces an identity crisis: carmaker or tech firm? |
Elon Musk’s fiendish conundrum
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| 24-Apr-2024
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Can anyone pull Boeing out of its nosedive? |
The American planemaker needs one hell of a pilot
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| 25-Apr-2024
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Pssst! Want to read something about rumour and innuendo? |
Gossip in the workplace
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| 25-Apr-2024
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Will war snuff out the Gulf’s global business ambitions? |
Companies far and wide are feeling the effects of the conflict
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| 28-Apr-2024
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How to handle populists: a CEO’s survival guide |
Western businesses are learning to live with volatile electoral politics around the world
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| 30-Apr-2024
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Can biotech startups upstage Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk? |
Smaller drugmakers are enjoying a revival
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| 1-May-2024
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Chinese EV-makers are leaving Western rivals in the dust |
They have shone at Beijing’s car jamboree
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| 2-May-2024
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Why does BHP want Anglo American? |
Its $39bn takeover offer is the latest in a string of mining mega-mergers
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| 2-May-2024
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How not to work on a plane |
Hours without interruption and work to do. What could go wrong?
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| 2-May-2024
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Does Perplexity’s “answer engine” threaten Google? |
Taking aim at one of the best business models of all time
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| 5-May-2024
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AI and other tricks are bringing power lines into the 21st century |
Grids are at last becoming smarter and more efficient
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| 5-May-2024
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Big tech’s great AI power grab |
Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft are on the hunt for new energy sources
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| 8-May-2024
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Is America Inc’s war for talent over? |
Competition has cooled—for now
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| 9-May-2024
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Will chatbots eat India’s IT industry? |
TCS, Infosys and others try to harness the technology first
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| 9-May-2024
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Can Alibaba get the magic back? |
China’s e-commerce giant is no longer being stripped for parts. Good
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| 9-May-2024
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For Gen-Z job-seekers, TikTok is the new LinkedIn |
Companies had better start scrolling
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| 13-May-2024
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App stores are hugely lucrative—and under attack |
Governments want to curb their power
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| 15-May-2024
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Can Home Depot’s “amazing era” return? |
Americans are yet to recover their enthusiasm for renovations
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| 16-May-2024
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China’s youth are rebelling against long hours |
The backlash over a series of viral videos says a lot about shifting attitudes
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| 16-May-2024
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How to be a good follower |
First, realise that it matters
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| 16-May-2024
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Meet the Swedish firm trying to shake up heat pumps |
It sees a big opportunity in an old technology
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| 16-May-2024
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How not to name a new car |
Companies that get it wrong risk both derision and outrage
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| 16-May-2024
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What do Joe Biden and the boss of Starbucks have in common? |
Both are grappling with gloomy consumers at home and trouble abroad
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| 19-May-2024
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Can Nvidia be dethroned? Meet the startups vying for its crown |
A new generation of AI chips is on the way
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| 22-May-2024
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Can anyone save the world’s most important diamond company? |
De Beers is in peril
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| 23-May-2024
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Global firms are tapping India’s workers like never before |
They want their brains more than their brawn
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| 23-May-2024
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Africa Inc is ready to roar |
Its businesses are expanding across the continent
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| 23-May-2024
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Americans are fretting over their body odour |
They are covering themselves in new types of deodorant
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| 23-May-2024
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Walmart’s latest product? Its customers |
The retail giant is selling advertisers access to its shoppers
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| 23-May-2024
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The Economist’s agony uncle returns |
Pets, drugs and schedule send: another postbag for Max Flannel
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| 28-May-2024
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Japanese businesses are trapped between America and China |
Could geopolitics kill off an incipient corporate revival?
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| 29-May-2024
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Can Elon Musk’s xAI take on OpenAI? |
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| 29-May-2024
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ExxonMobil rediscovers its swagger |
The bad boy of big oil goes after its shareholders
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| 30-May-2024
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The soldiers of the silicon supply chain are worried |
Geopolitics risks distorting a miracle of modern technology
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| 30-May-2024
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How to write the perfect CV |
A job applicant walks into a bar
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| 30-May-2024
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Can Benetton be patched up? |
Italy’s threadbare casual-fashion icon is stained with red ink
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| 2-Jun-2024
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How Saudi Aramco plans to win the oil endgame |
The world’s biggest energy firm is the linchpin of the kingdom’s ambitions
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| 6-Jun-2024
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G42, an Emirati AI hopeful, has big plans |
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| 6-Jun-2024
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Chinese fast-food insurgents are beating McDonald’s and KFC |
The healthy appetite comes from smaller cities
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| 6-Jun-2024
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Elon Musk could earn more at Tesla than other company bosses |
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| 6-Jun-2024
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Should the world fear China’s chipmaking binge? |
Concerns that cheap Chinese semiconductors will flood the market may be premature
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| 6-Jun-2024
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Is it better to be an early bird or a night owl? |
The promise and perils of waking before sunrise
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| 6-Jun-2024
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Lessons in capitalism from Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s |
How to build businesses that last
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| 8-Jun-2024
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The war for AI talent is heating up |
Big tech firms scramble to fill gaps as brain drain sets in
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| 11-Jun-2024
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Hey Siri! Help me get Apple out of an AI-shaped hole |
Tim Cook’s prayer to the almighty
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| 12-Jun-2024
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The EU hits China’s carmakers with hefty new tariffs |
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| 13-Jun-2024
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What Indian business expects from Modi 3.0 |
After a brief panic, investors and bosses welcome the new government
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| 13-Jun-2024
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How Gen Zs rebel against Asia’s rigid corporate culture |
Young workers are striking, slouching off and setting sail
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| 13-Jun-2024
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The rise of the hard right alarms German business leaders |
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| 13-Jun-2024
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A price war breaks out among China’s AI-model builders |
It may stymie innovation
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| 17-Jun-2024
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China’s giant solar industry is in turmoil |
Overcapacity has caused prices—and profits—to tumble
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| 20-Jun-2024
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Palmer Luckey and Anduril want to shake up armsmaking |
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| 20-Jun-2024
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India’s electronics industry is surging |
Foreign and domestic firms are investing in local manufacturing
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| 15-Oct-2024
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Why Microsoft Excel won’t die |
The business world’s favourite software program enters its 40th year
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| 13-Oct-2024
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The trouble with Elon Musk’s robotaxi dream |
Scaling up self-driving taxis will be tough, and competition will be fierce
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| 11-Oct-2024
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Sir Jim Ratcliffe, chemicals magnate turned sports mogul |
The British billionaire is buying up teams from sailing to football to cycling
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| 10-Oct-2024
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Masayoshi Son is back in Silicon Valley—and late to the AI race |
This isn’t the first time the Japanese tech investor has missed the hot new thing
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| 10-Oct-2024
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When workplace bonuses backfire |
The gelignite of incentives
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| 10-Oct-2024
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China is writing the world’s technology rules |
It is setting standards for everything from 6G to quantum computing
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| 10-Oct-2024
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Can Mytheresa make luxury e-commerce a success? |
It reckons it can succeed where Richemont has failed
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| 10-Oct-2024
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Ratan Tata, a consequential and beloved figure in Indian business |
He reshaped one of India’s most successful conglomerates
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| 9-Oct-2024
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Big tech is bringing nuclear power back to life |
Artificial intelligence needs clean and reliable energy sources
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| 8-Oct-2024
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Can Israel’s mighty tech industry withstand a wider war? |
Its resilience is being tested
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| 3-Oct-2024
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What makes a good manager? |
Hint: not someone who says I am a good manager
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| 3-Oct-2024
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Transit vans are the key to Ford’s future |
And they earn big profits today
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| 3-Oct-2024
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Workouts for the face are a growing business |
They may not help much in the quest for eternal youth
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| 3-Oct-2024
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Will America’s government try to break up Google? |
Antitrust remedies that target its generative-AI ambitions are more likely
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| 3-Oct-2024
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India’s consumers are changing how they buy |
A giant population turns to deliveries
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| 1-Oct-2024
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The future of the Chinese consumer—in three glasses |
What China’s biggest distiller, brewer and water-bottler say about its economy
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| 29-Sep-2024
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AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers’ world |
Their code will get cheaper. So might they
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| 26-Sep-2024
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Is a Nike lifer the best person to revive the swoosh? |
Insider CEOs come with less risk—but fewer potential rewards
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| 26-Sep-2024
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The hell of the sandwich lunch |
Working and eating do not go together
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| 26-Sep-2024
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The rise of the $40,000 gym membership |
When it comes to working out, consumers want either luxury or thrift
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| 26-Sep-2024
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Northvolt announces more cuts, worrying investors |
Europe’s battery-making champion has overstretched itself
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| 26-Sep-2024
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What does the OpenAI exodus say about Sam Altman? |
Another departure focuses attention on his leadership
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| 25-Sep-2024
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Can anybody save Intel? |
America’s failing chip champion needs a financial-engineering miracle
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| 25-Sep-2024
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Can dealmaking save Intel? |
America’s failing chip champion needs a financial-engineering miracle
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| 24-Sep-2024
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The curse of the Michelin star |
Restaurants awarded the honour are more likely to close, research finds
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| 20-Jun-2024
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Are manufacturing jobs really that good? |
The nostalgia of politicians is misplaced
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| 20-Jun-2024
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Nvidia is now the world’s most valuable company |
Tech giants can’t get enough of its chips
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| 20-Jun-2024
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European airlines are on a shopping spree |
Lufthansa and IAG are pursuing big acquisitions
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| 20-Jun-2024
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The cautionary tale of Huy Fong’s hot sauce |
What went wrong for America’s favourite sriracha brand?
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| 20-Jun-2024
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Floating solar has a bright future |
The technology is now ready to shine
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| 23-Jun-2024
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Is artificial intelligence making big tech too big? |
Previous scares have been overblown. This one might not be
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| 26-Jun-2024
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Is the revival of Paris in peril? |
The French election threatens a remarkable commercial renaissance
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| 27-Jun-2024
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Who shaved $250bn from Kweichow Moutai’s market value? |
Hint: it wasn’t Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive
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| 27-Jun-2024
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Boom times are back for container shipping |
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| 27-Jun-2024
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Why big oil is wading into lithium |
What black gold and the white metal have in common
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| 27-Jun-2024
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Why everyone should think like a lawyer |
The unloved profession has a lot to teach managers
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| 27-Jun-2024
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A new lab and a new paper reignite an old AI debate |
Two duelling visions of the technological future
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| 27-Jun-2024
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European millionaires seek a safe harbour from populism |
Many are fleeing to the Gulf—never mind war next door
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| 1-Jul-2024
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What next for Amazon as it turns 30? |
From Prime Video to AWS, the e-empire is stitching together its disparate parts
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| 3-Jul-2024
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Hollywood enters a frugal new era |
As austerity hits Tinseltown, rivalries are giving way to alliances
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| 4-Jul-2024
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Your conference-survival handbook |
Rules to make gabfests vaguely useful
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| 4-Jul-2024
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Panic rooms and private bunkers are all the rage in Germany |
Everyone from tycoons to typical middle-class families seeks shelter
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| 4-Jul-2024
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Lessons in risk-taking from buccaneering BBVA |
The Spanish lender places brave political bets at home and abroad
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| 7-Jul-2024
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America’s giant armsmakers are being outgunned |
Why there is little sign of a defence-industry bonanza in a post-peace world
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| 8-Jul-2024
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Once high-flying Boeing is now a corporate criminal |
Its woes illustrate the excesses of a lean-and-mean era in corporate America
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| 10-Jul-2024
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The EV trade war between China and the West heats up |
But Elon Musk’s carmaker is somehow escaping the worst of it
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| 11-Jul-2024
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The CEO’s alternative summer reading list |
Some genre-bending management books
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| 11-Jul-2024
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Europe’s biggest debt-collector has a debt problem |
Intrum gets into hot water with its creditors
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| 11-Jul-2024
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What German business makes of France’s leftward turn |
Deutschland AG and France SA are closer than ever
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| 11-Jul-2024
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Why most battery-makers struggle to make money |
This is not your classic boom-and-bust cycle
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| 16-Jul-2024
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What a $600m wedding says about India’s attitude to wealth |
The Ambani nuptials enticed everyone from Justin Bieber and Shah Rukh Khan to John Kerry
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| 17-Jul-2024
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Tech bros love J.D. Vance. Many CEOs are scared stiff |
Donald Trump’s running-mate has a deep-rooted resentment of big business
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| 18-Jul-2024
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How a CEO knows when to quit |
Bosses have a shelf life and plenty of incentives to misjudge what it is
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| 18-Jul-2024
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Can anyone save Macy’s? |
America’s biggest department store has rejected a takeover. Now what?
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| 18-Jul-2024
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Google wants a piece of Microsoft’s cyber-security business |
A $23bn acquisition of Wiz, an Israeli startup, is the search giant’s biggest ever
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| 18-Jul-2024
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Can Burberry put its chequered past behind it? |
The British label’s new boss has his work cut out
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| 18-Jul-2024
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China is the West’s corporate R&D lab. Can it remain so? |
Foreign firms want Chinese boffins. America and China may have other plans
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| 24-Jul-2024
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China’s robotaxis are racing ahead of Tesla’s |
Baidu is leaving Western carmakers in the dust
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| 24-Jul-2024
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Donald Trump’s promise of a golden age for oil is fanciful |
There is not much he could do to boost fossil fuels—or rein in clean energy
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| 24-Jul-2024
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Why is Mark Zuckerberg giving away Meta’s crown jewels? |
Augustus Caesar goes on the open-source warpath
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| 25-Jul-2024
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Machines might not take your job. But they could make it worse |
How robots and AI change the meaningfulness of work
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| 25-Jul-2024
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Can China smash the Airbus-Boeing duopoly? |
It hopes to succeed where others have failed
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| 25-Jul-2024
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LVMH is splurging on the Olympics |
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| 28-Jul-2024
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What could kill the $1trn artificial-intelligence boom? |
A fast-growing supply chain is in danger of over-extending
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| 31-Jul-2024
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What Chipotle and McDonald’s say about the consumer slowdown |
Americans still want more than just the lowest price
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| 1-Aug-2024
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India’s electric-scooter champion goes public |
It promises to be a wild ride for investors
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| 1-Aug-2024
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What is the point of industry awards? |
Booze, sweat and plexiglass
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| 1-Aug-2024
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Dumb phones are making a comeback |
They even have Snake
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| 1-Aug-2024
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Can Samsung get its mojo back? |
Its profits are surging, but its technology is lagging behind
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| 2-Aug-2024
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What is going wrong for Intel? |
The giant chipmaker has shed $40bn in market value in a day
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| 6-Aug-2024
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A history-lover’s guide to the market panic over AI |
Past technologies offer clues to what comes next
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| 6-Aug-2024
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A court says Google is a monopolist. Now what? |
The ruling could lead to a big-tech showdown
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| 8-Aug-2024
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What can Olympians teach executives? |
Citius, altius, spurious
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| 8-Aug-2024
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China is overhauling its company law |
Its leaders want to make business less volatile—and easier to control
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| 8-Aug-2024
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China’s manufacturers are going broke |
Overcapacity is leading to soaring bankruptcies
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| 8-Aug-2024
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Why people have fallen out of love with dating apps |
Tinder and Bumble are struggling as singles refuse to pay up
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| 12-Aug-2024
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Patriotism is replacing purpose in American business |
Beware the costs
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| 14-Aug-2024
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How bosses should play politics: the cautionary tale of Elon Musk |
A new book considers the complex relationship between presidents and company bosses
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| 14-Aug-2024
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Can Chipotle’s boss turn Starbucks around? |
Brian Niccol faces three big challenges
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| 15-Aug-2024
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Hindenburg widens its attack on Adani |
It has taken aim at the boss of India’s securities regulator
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| 15-Aug-2024
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How to take proper breaks from work |
The matinée test
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| 15-Aug-2024
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Startups are finding novel ways to recycle carbon |
Demand is set to rocket as costs continue to fall
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| 15-Aug-2024
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From Taylor Swift to Star Trek, niche cruises are on the rise |
Themed offerings are luring young and old
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| 15-Aug-2024
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The global tourism boom is shifting to Asia |
Travel in the region is roaring after a difficult few years
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| 18-Aug-2024
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Can big food adapt to healthier diets? |
It must contend with weight-loss drugs and concerns about processed foods
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| 21-Aug-2024
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Apple can’t do cars. Meet the Chinese tech giants that can |
Baidu, Huawei and Xiaomi have built thriving auto businesses
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| 22-Aug-2024
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India’s largest airline is flying high |
IndiGo has conquered its home market. Its ambitions are rising
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| 22-Aug-2024
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Why America’s tech giants have got bigger and stronger |
Whatever happened to creative destruction?
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| 22-Aug-2024
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What to do about pets in the office |
Dogs can bring both joy and chaos
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| 22-Aug-2024
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Why Germany’s watchmakers are worried about the AfD |
The far-right party threatens the industry’s brand
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| 22-Aug-2024
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What a takeover offer for 7-Eleven says about business in Japan |
Its merger with a Canadian firm would create a convenience-store goliath
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| 22-Aug-2024
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From Coachella to Burning Man, festivals are having a bad year |
Tickets are no longer selling out
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| 26-Aug-2024
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What could stop the Nvidia frenzy? |
Two contradictions could stymie the AI chipmaker-in-chief
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| 27-Aug-2024
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The case against “Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg” will have lasting effects |
Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, may face prosecution in France
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| 28-Aug-2024
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Meta is accused of “bullying” the open-source community |
It hopes its models will set the standard for open-source artificial intelligence
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| 29-Aug-2024
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Four questions for every manager to ask themselves |
Prompts for bosses
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| 29-Aug-2024
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Pinduoduo, China’s e-commerce star, suffers a blow |
It faces a slowing economy, stiffening competition and angry merchants
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| 29-Aug-2024
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Renault readies itself to take on Chinese rivals |
Luca de Meo is turning the carmaker around
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| 29-Aug-2024
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How Abercrombie & Fitch got hot again |
The once-troubled brand is now a favourite of millennials and gen-Zs alike
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| 29-Aug-2024
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From Southwest to Spirit, budget airlines are in a tailspin |
The woes of America’s low-cost carriers could soon be mirrored elsewhere
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| 1-Sep-2024
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Clean energy’s next trillion-dollar business |
Grid-scale batteries are taking off at last
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| 3-Sep-2024
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Has Warren Buffett lost his touch? |
Assessing Berkshire Hathaway’s recent performance
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| 5-Sep-2024
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Closing factories will not be enough to save Volkswagen |
The car giant needs major repairs
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| 5-Sep-2024
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Commercial ties between the Gulf and Asia are deepening |
It is no longer just about oil
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| 5-Sep-2024
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The mystery of the cover letter |
Why do recruiters still ask for them?
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| 5-Sep-2024
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Can IKEA disrupt the furniture business again? |
It wants to help you sell your Billy bookcase
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| 5-Sep-2024
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How Broadcom quietly became a $700bn powerhouse |
Its rise began well before the artificial-intelligence boom
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| 7-Sep-2024
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Brian Niccol, Starbucks’s new CEO, has a “messianic halo” |
But the turnaround king has his work cut out
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| 8-Sep-2024
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Is the era of the mega-deal over? |
Nippon’s acquisition of US Steel is not the only mega-merger falling apart
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| 9-Sep-2024
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Japan’s sleepy companies still need more reform |
The country’s corporate-governance crusade has a long way to go
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| 10-Sep-2024
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AI will not fix Apple’s sluggish iPhone sales any time soon |
The technology is not yet ready for prime time on phones or other devices
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| 12-Sep-2024
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Why family empires dominate business in India |
Their grip on the economy may be starting to weaken—slowly
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| 12-Sep-2024
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Intel is on life support. Can anything save it? |
Only drastic action can revive America’s chipmaking champion
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| 12-Sep-2024
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Physical proximity has big effects in the workplace |
It needs to be managed wisely
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| 12-Sep-2024
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European firms are smaller and less profitable than American ones |
The continent’s policymakers are right to be worried
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| 12-Sep-2024
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People are splurging like never before on their pets |
Would you buy your furry companion a cologne?
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| 12-Sep-2024
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Demand for high-end cameras is soaring |
The ubiquity of smartphones has helped
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| 17-Sep-2024
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Chinese overcapacity is crushing the global steel industry |
Governments are stepping in to protect local producers
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| 17-Sep-2024
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Why the hype for hybrid cars will not last |
Fully electric vehicles will win the race
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| 19-Sep-2024
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PwC needs to rethink its global governance |
The “big four” accounting giants have outgrown their decentralised structures
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| 19-Sep-2024
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How FIFA was outplayed by Electronic Arts |
The video-game publisher called the football chiefs’ bluff—and won
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| 19-Sep-2024
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Should you be nice at work? |
Kindness is in vogue
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| 19-Sep-2024
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How much trouble is Boeing in? |
A protracted strike could cause lasting damage
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| 19-Sep-2024
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OpenAI’s new fundraising is shaking up Silicon Valley |
Generative AI is forcing America’s disrupters in chief to think differently
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| 22-Sep-2024
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YouTubers like MrBeast are coming for Hollywood |
Scandals will not be enough to stop a new generation from taking over
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