| 1-Apr-2025
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Donald Trump digs deep to revive American mining
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| 1-Apr-2025
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Are there any business winners in Trump 2?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Lessons in capitalism from Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s
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How to build businesses that last
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The war for AI talent is heating up
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Big tech firms scramble to fill gaps as brain drain sets in
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Hey Siri! Help me get Apple out of an AI-shaped hole
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Tim Cook’s prayer to the almighty
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The EU hits China’s carmakers with hefty new tariffs
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Duties will only hold them back for a while
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What Indian business expects from Modi 3.0
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After a brief panic, investors and bosses welcome the new government
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How Gen Zs rebel against Asia’s rigid corporate culture
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Young workers are striking, slouching off and setting sail
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The rise of the hard right alarms German business leaders
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| 26-Mar-2025
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A price war breaks out among China’s AI-model builders
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It may stymie innovation
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| 26-Mar-2025
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China’s giant solar industry is in turmoil
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Overcapacity has caused prices—and profits—to tumble
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Palmer Luckey and Anduril want to shake up armsmaking
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The 31-year-old flip-flop-wearer should not be underestimated
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| 26-Mar-2025
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India’s electronics industry is surging
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Foreign and domestic firms are investing in local manufacturing
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| 26-Mar-2025
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European airlines are on a shopping spree
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Lufthansa and IAG are pursuing big acquisitions
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The cautionary tale of Huy Fong’s hot sauce
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What went wrong for America’s favourite sriracha brand?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Nvidia is now the world’s most valuable company
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Tech giants can’t get enough of its chips
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Floating solar has a bright future
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The technology is now ready to shine
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Are manufacturing jobs really that good?
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The nostalgia of politicians is misplaced
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Is artificial intelligence making big tech too big?
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Previous scares have been overblown. This one might not be
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Is the revival of Paris in peril?
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The French election threatens a remarkable commercial renaissance
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Who shaved $250bn from Kweichow Moutai’s market value?
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Hint: it wasn’t Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Boom times are back for container shipping
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Can they last?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why big oil is wading into lithium
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What black gold and the white metal have in common
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why everyone should think like a lawyer
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The unloved profession has a lot to teach managers
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| 26-Mar-2025
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A new lab and a new paper reignite an old AI debate
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Two duelling visions of the technological future
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| 26-Mar-2025
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European millionaires seek a safe harbour from populism
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Many are fleeing to the Gulf—never mind war next door
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What next for Amazon as it turns 30?
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From Prime Video to AWS, the e-empire is stitching together its disparate parts
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Hollywood enters a frugal new era
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As austerity hits Tinseltown, rivalries are giving way to alliances
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Your conference-survival handbook
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Rules to make gabfests vaguely useful
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Panic rooms and private bunkers are all the rage in Germany
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Everyone from tycoons to typical middle-class families seeks shelter
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Lessons in risk-taking from buccaneering BBVA
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The Spanish lender places brave political bets at home and abroad
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| 26-Mar-2025
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America’s giant armsmakers are being outgunned
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Why there is little sign of a defence-industry bonanza in a post-peace world
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Once high-flying Boeing is now a corporate criminal
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Its woes illustrate the excesses of a lean-and-mean era in corporate America
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The EV trade war between China and the West heats up
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But Elon Musk’s carmaker is somehow escaping the worst of it
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The CEO’s alternative summer reading list
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Some genre-bending management books
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Europe’s biggest debt-collector has a debt problem
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Intrum gets into hot water with its creditors
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What German business makes of France’s leftward turn
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Deutschland AG and France SA are closer than ever
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why most battery-makers struggle to make money
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This is not your classic boom-and-bust cycle
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What a $600m wedding says about India’s attitude to wealth
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The Ambani nuptials enticed everyone from Justin Bieber and Shah Rukh Khan to John Kerry
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Tech bros love J.D. Vance. Many CEOs are scared stiff
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Donald Trump’s running-mate has a deep-rooted resentment of big business
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can Burberry put its chequered past behind it?
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The British label’s new boss has his work cut out
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| 26-Mar-2025
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China is the West’s corporate R&D lab. Can it remain so?
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Foreign firms want Chinese boffins. America and China may have other plans
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can anyone save Macy’s?
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America’s biggest department store has rejected a takeover. Now what?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How a CEO knows when to quit
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Bosses have a shelf life and plenty of incentives to misjudge what it is
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Google wants a piece of Microsoft’s cyber-security business
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A $23bn acquisition of Wiz, an Israeli startup, is the search giant’s biggest ever
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| 26-Mar-2025
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China’s robotaxis are racing ahead of Tesla’s
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Baidu is leaving Western carmakers in the dust
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Donald Trump’s promise of a golden age for oil is fanciful
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There is not much he could do to boost fossil fuels—or rein in clean energy
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why is Mark Zuckerberg giving away Meta’s crown jewels?
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Augustus Caesar goes on the open-source warpath
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Machines might not take your job. But they could make it worse
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How robots and AI change the meaningfulness of work
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can China smash the Airbus-Boeing duopoly?
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It hopes to succeed where others have failed
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| 26-Mar-2025
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LVMH is splurging on the Olympics
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Will it pay off?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What could kill the $1trn artificial-intelligence boom?
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A fast-growing supply chain is in danger of over-extending
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What Chipotle and McDonald’s say about the consumer slowdown
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Americans still want more than just the lowest price
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| 26-Mar-2025
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India’s electric-scooter champion goes public
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It promises to be a wild ride for investors
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What is the point of industry awards?
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Booze, sweat and plexiglass
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Dumb phones are making a comeback
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They even have Snake
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can Samsung get its mojo back?
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Its profits are surging, but its technology is lagging behind
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What is going wrong for Intel?
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The giant chipmaker has shed $40bn in market value in a day
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| 26-Mar-2025
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A history-lover’s guide to the market panic over AI
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Past technologies offer clues to what comes next
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| 26-Mar-2025
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A court says Google is a monopolist. Now what?
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The ruling could lead to a big-tech showdown
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| 26-Mar-2025
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China’s manufacturers are going broke
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Overcapacity is leading to soaring bankruptcies
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why people have fallen out of love with dating apps
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Tinder and Bumble are struggling as singles refuse to pay up
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What can Olympians teach executives?
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Citius, altius, spurious
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| 26-Mar-2025
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China is overhauling its company law
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Its leaders want to make business less volatile—and easier to control
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Patriotism is replacing purpose in American business
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Beware the costs
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How bosses should play politics: the cautionary tale of Elon Musk
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A new book considers the complex relationship between presidents and company bosses
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can Chipotle’s boss turn Starbucks around?
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Brian Niccol faces three big challenges
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Hindenburg widens its attack on Adani
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It has taken aim at the boss of India’s securities regulator
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How to take proper breaks from work
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The matinée test
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Startups are finding novel ways to recycle carbon
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Demand is set to rocket as costs continue to fall
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| 26-Mar-2025
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From Taylor Swift to Star Trek, niche cruises are on the rise
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Themed offerings are luring young and old
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The global tourism boom is shifting to Asia
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Travel in the region is roaring after a difficult few years
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can big food adapt to healthier diets?
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It must contend with weight-loss drugs and concerns about processed foods
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Apple can’t do cars. Meet the Chinese tech giants that can
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Baidu, Huawei and Xiaomi have built thriving auto businesses
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| 26-Mar-2025
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India’s largest airline is flying high
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IndiGo has conquered its home market. Its ambitions are rising
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why America’s tech giants have got bigger and stronger
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Whatever happened to creative destruction?
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| 16-Dec-2024
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What a takeover offer for 7-Eleven says about business in Japan
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Its merger with a Canadian firm would create a convenience-store goliath
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why Germany’s watchmakers are worried about the AfD
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The far-right party threatens the industry’s brand
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| 26-Mar-2025
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From Coachella to Burning Man, festivals are having a bad year
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Tickets are no longer selling out
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What to do about pets in the office
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Dogs can bring both joy and chaos
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What could stop the Nvidia frenzy?
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Two contradictions could stymie the AI chipmaker-in-chief
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The case against “Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg” will have lasting effects
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Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, may face prosecution in France
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Meta is accused of “bullying” the open-source community
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It hopes its models will set the standard for open-source artificial intelligence
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| 26-Mar-2025
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From Southwest to Spirit, budget airlines are in a tailspin
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The woes of America’s low-cost carriers could soon be mirrored elsewhere
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Renault readies itself to take on Chinese rivals
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Luca de Meo is turning the carmaker around
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Four questions for every manager to ask themselves
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Prompts for bosses
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How Abercrombie & Fitch got hot again
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The once-troubled brand is now a favourite of millennials and gen-Zs alike
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Pinduoduo, China’s e-commerce star, suffers a blow
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It faces a slowing economy, stiffening competition and angry merchants
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Clean energy’s next trillion-dollar business
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Grid-scale batteries are taking off at last
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Has Warren Buffett lost his touch?
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Assessing Berkshire Hathaway’s recent performance
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Closing factories will not be enough to save Volkswagen
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The car giant needs major repairs
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Commercial ties between the Gulf and Asia are deepening
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It is no longer just about oil
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How Broadcom quietly became a $700bn powerhouse
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Its rise began well before the artificial-intelligence boom
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The mystery of the cover letter
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Why do recruiters still ask for them?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can IKEA disrupt the furniture business again?
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It wants to help you sell your Billy bookcase
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| 28-Mar-2025
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Brian Niccol, Starbucks’s new CEO, has a “messianic halo”
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But the turnaround king has his work cut out
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Is the era of the mega-deal over?
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Nippon’s acquisition of US Steel is not the only mega-merger falling apart
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| 16-Dec-2024
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Japan’s sleepy companies still need more reform
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The country’s corporate-governance crusade has a long way to go
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| 26-Mar-2025
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AI will not fix Apple’s sluggish iPhone sales any time soon
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The technology is not yet ready for prime time on phones or other devices
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why family empires dominate business in India
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Their grip on the economy may be starting to weaken—slowly
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| 26-Mar-2025
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People are splurging like never before on their pets
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Would you buy your furry companion a cologne?
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| 26-Mar-2025
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European firms are smaller and less profitable than American ones
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The continent’s policymakers are right to be worried
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Demand for high-end cameras is soaring
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The ubiquity of smartphones has helped
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Intel is on life support. Can anything save it?
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Only drastic action can revive America’s chipmaking champion
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Physical proximity has big effects in the workplace
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It needs to be managed wisely
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Chinese overcapacity is crushing the global steel industry
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Governments are stepping in to protect local producers
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| 19-Sep-2024
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Why the hype for hybrid cars will not last
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Fully electric vehicles will win the race
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Should you be nice at work?
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Kindness is in vogue
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How much trouble is Boeing in?
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A protracted strike could cause lasting damage
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| 26-Mar-2025
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OpenAI’s new fundraising is shaking up Silicon Valley
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Generative AI is forcing America’s disrupters in chief to think differently
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How FIFA was outplayed by Electronic Arts
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The video-game publisher called the football chiefs’ bluff—and won
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| 26-Mar-2025
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PwC needs to rethink its global governance
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The “big four” accounting giants have outgrown their decentralised structures
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| 26-Mar-2025
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YouTubers like MrBeast are coming for Hollywood
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Scandals will not be enough to stop a new generation from taking over
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The curse of the Michelin star
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Restaurants awarded the honour are more likely to close, research finds
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can dealmaking save Intel?
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America’s failing chip champion needs a financial-engineering miracle
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What does the OpenAI exodus say about Sam Altman?
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Another departure focuses attention on his leadership
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The rise of the $40,000 gym membership
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When it comes to working out, consumers want either luxury or thrift
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Northvolt announces more cuts, worrying investors
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Europe’s battery-making champion has overstretched itself
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Is a Nike lifer the best person to revive the swoosh?
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Insider CEOs come with less risk—but fewer potential rewards
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The hell of the sandwich lunch
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Working and eating do not go together
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| 26-Mar-2025
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AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers’ world
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Their code will get cheaper. So might they
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The future of the Chinese consumer—in three glasses
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What China’s biggest distiller, brewer and water-bottler say about its economy
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| 26-Mar-2025
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India’s consumers are changing how they buy
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A giant population turns to deliveries
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Workouts for the face are a growing business
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They may not help much in the quest for eternal youth
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What makes a good manager?
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Hint: not someone who says I am a good manager
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Will America’s government try to break up Google?
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Antitrust remedies that target its generative-AI ambitions are more likely
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Transit vans are the key to Ford’s future
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And they earn big profits today
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can Israel’s mighty tech industry withstand a wider war?
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Its resilience is being tested
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Big tech is bringing nuclear power back to life
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Artificial intelligence needs clean and reliable energy sources
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Ratan Tata, a consequential and beloved figure in Indian business
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He reshaped one of India’s most successful conglomerates
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can Mytheresa make luxury e-commerce a success?
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It reckons it can succeed where Richemont has failed
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| 26-Mar-2025
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When workplace bonuses backfire
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The gelignite of incentives
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| 31-Dec-2024
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China is writing the world’s technology rules
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It is setting standards for everything from 6G to quantum computing
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Masayoshi Son is back in Silicon Valley—and late to the AI race
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This isn’t the first time the Japanese tech investor has missed the hot new thing
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| 28-Mar-2025
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Sir Jim Ratcliffe, chemicals magnate turned sports mogul
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The British billionaire is buying up teams from sailing to football to cycling
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The trouble with Elon Musk’s robotaxi dream
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Scaling up self-driving taxis will be hard, and competition will be fierce
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why Microsoft Excel won’t die
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The business world’s favourite software program enters its 40th year
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can artificial intelligence rescue customer service?
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The adoption of AI is surging in call centres
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Pity the superstar fashion designer
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Creative directors are coming and going faster than the latest trends
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Poland’s stockmarket has a hot new entrant
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The IPO of Zabka could help revive Warsaw’s beleaguered bourse
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| 26-Mar-2025
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BHP and Rio Tinto are heading in different directions
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The strategies of the world’s two most valuable miners are diverging
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What if carmaking went the way of consumer electronics?
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The Foxconnification of electric vehicles
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The horrors of the reply-all email thread
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Easy to start, impossible to stop
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| 26-Mar-2025
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America’s growing profits are under threat
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Look beyond a bullish earnings season and risks loom
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Are bosses right to insist that workers return to the office?
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Company mandates are infuriating employees
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Competition will make weight-loss drugs better, cheaper and bigger
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Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly face a growing number of challengers
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| 26-Mar-2025
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South-East Asia’s stodgy conglomerates are holding it back
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The region’s ageing corporate empires are stuck in the past—and too cosy with politicians
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How to manage politics in the workplace
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Polarisation affects bosses as well as employees
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Memory chips could be the next bottleneck for AI
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SK Hynix is dominating the market
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can Google or Huawei stymie Apple’s march towards $4trn?
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The contest for global smartphone dominance gets interesting
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What if Microsoft let OpenAI go free?
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It may not be as crazy as it sounds
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Too many people want to be social-media influencers
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| 26-Mar-2025
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China is tightening its grip on the world’s minerals
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Volkswagen’s woes illustrate Germany’s creeping deindustrialisation
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| 31-Dec-2024
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Can Japan’s toilet technology crack global markets?
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The leading maker of electronic bidets shows the difficulties facing Japanese companies abroad
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Can anyone besides Nvidia make big bucks from chips?
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The strange economics of the semiconductor supply chain
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How to beat jet lag
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why your company is struggling to scale up generative AI
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Huawei’s new made-in-China software takes on Apple and Android
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With its latest operating system, it is cutting ties with Western tech
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| 26-Mar-2025
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India’s startup scene is picking up speed again
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Zippy new firms are emerging in a number of areas
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Oil bosses have big hopes for the AI boom
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Data centres are fuelling demand for natural gas—for now
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How will business deal with Donald Trump this time?
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Very carefully
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What would Elon Musk do in government?
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No CEO has ever bet so big on a commander-in-chief—and won
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Why being wrong is good for you
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Tesla is not the only winner under Donald Trump
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Donald Trump is bad news for German business
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| 26-Mar-2025
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America Inc is hoping for a tax bonanza. It may be disappointed
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Donald Trump’s promise of big tax cuts may not materialise
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| 26-Mar-2025
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TSMC walks a geopolitical tightrope
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Taiwan’s giant chipmaker must balance demands from America, China and home
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Nike and Adidas are losing their lead in running shoes
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On, Hoka and other challengers are catching up fast
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| 26-Mar-2025
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The magic and the minefield of confidence
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Self-doubt, hubris and everything in between
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Big oil may be softening its stance on climate-change regulation
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ExxonMobil’s boss wants America to stick with the Paris accord
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Is America’s last big industrial conglomerate about to break up?
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Elliott Management wants to split Honeywell in two
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How Chinese is Shein?
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For the fast-fashion giant, nationality has become a vexed question
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Spirit’s woes reveal the dismal state of America’s budget airlines
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Its bankruptcy shows how strained the low-cost model has become
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| 26-Mar-2025
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What ChatGPT’s corporate victims have in common
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The first casualties of generative AI offer lessons for other businesses
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Does Dallas offer a vision of America’s future?
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The Texan city embodies the allure of small government
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| 21-Nov-2024
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Nvidia’s boss dismisses fears that AI has hit a wall
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But it’s “urgent” to get to the next level, Jensen Huang tells The Economist
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Gautam Adani faces bribery charges in America
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Prosecutors allege one of India’s richest men paid off local officials
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| 26-Mar-2025
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How to behave in lifts: an office guide
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Life in an elevator
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Donald Trump’s victory has boosted shares in private-prison companies
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A hard line means hard cash
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Elon Musk’s xAI goes after OpenAI
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The fight is turning nasty
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Audiobooks are booming, thanks to streaming subscriptions
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| 26-Mar-2025
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TikTok wants Western consumers to shop like the Chinese
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| 26-Mar-2025
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After Northvolt’s failure, who will make Europe’s EV batteries?
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The continent looks ever more reliant on Asian producers
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Will the trouble ever end for Volkswagen and its rivals?
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From strikes to Trump tariffs, calamities abound
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Has Sequoia Capital outgrown its business model?
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Venture capital’s hardiest perennial gets back to its roots
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Could seaweed replace plastic packaging?
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Companies are experimenting with new ways to reduce plastic waste
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| 26-Mar-2025
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On stupid rules and quick wins
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Why every boss can benefit from asking employees what most infuriates them
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| 16-Dec-2024
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Intel’s troubles deepen, as its boss makes an abrupt exit
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Pat Gelsinger’s surprise departure poses a dilemma for Donald Trump
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| 16-Dec-2024
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How painful will Trump’s tariffs be for American businesses?
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Their options range from hoarding goods and raising prices to rewiring supply chains
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| 16-Dec-2024
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Russian businesses are beginning to bear the cost of war
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Soaring interest rates, a plunging currency and labour shortages are biting harder
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| 16-Dec-2024
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How to inspire people
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The answer is not another video of Steve Jobs
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Will Europe ease up on big tech?
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The clash between Silicon Valley and Brussels enters a new phase
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| 16-Dec-2024
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Not all European business is a profitless wasteland
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How to spot a corporate star, old-world edition
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| 16-Dec-2024
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Can teenagers outwit Australia’s social-media ban?
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Enforcing the new law may prove tricky
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| 16-Dec-2024
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From Apple to Starbucks, Western firms’ China dreams are dying
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Economic growth is slowing, competition is stiffening and geopolitical tensions loom
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| 16-Dec-2024
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The PayPal Mafia is taking over America’s government
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America’s right-wing tech bros are celebrating Donald Trump’s victory
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| 16-Dec-2024
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What do the gods of generative AI have in store for 2025?
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OpenAI and Google have unveiled their next generation of products
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| 16-Dec-2024
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Why judges were wrong to block the Kroger-Albertsons merger
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Antitrust concerns rest on an outdated idea of how Americans shop
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| 16-Dec-2024
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Farewell, Don Draper: AI is coming for advertising
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Omnicom’s takeover of Interpublic signals an industry in trouble
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| 16-Dec-2024
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What Trump’s new antitrust enforcers mean for business
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| 16-Dec-2024
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The employee awards for 2024
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Least accurate website photo. Best AI-washer. Let’s celebrate our winners
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| 16-Dec-2024
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Tesla, Intel and the fecklessness of corporate boards
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Too many directors at American companies aren’t doing their job
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| 19-Dec-2024
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Why Louis Vuitton is struggling but Hermès is not
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Worries that the luxury business is peaking are overblown
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| 19-Dec-2024
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Workers love Donald Trump. Unions should fear him
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The president-elect is no friend to organised labour
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| 19-Dec-2024
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A tie-up between Honda and Nissan will not fix their problems
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Speed, not scale, is what they require
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| 19-Dec-2024
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Can Lego remain the world’s coolest toymaker?
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And get greener too?
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| 19-Dec-2024
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The business of nicknames
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When they help brands and employees. And when they hurt
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| 19-Dec-2024
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Meet the most ruthless CEO in the trillion-dollar tech club
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Hock Tan of Broadcom is less Jensen Huang or Tim Cook and more Jack Welch on steroids
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| 27-Dec-2024
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Who was the best CEO of 2024?
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Our annual assessment of the world’s business bigwigs
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| 2-Jan-2025
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Why are Nordic companies so successful?
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From Lego to Novo Nordisk, many of Europe’s top firms come from the region
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| 2-Jan-2025
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China is catching up with America in quantum technology
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| 24-Mar-2025
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America’s marijuana industry is wilting
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Donald Trump seems to want looser rules on pot. Why are investors not excited?
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Meet Silicon Valley’s shrewdest talent spotters
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An elite group of early-stage investors make supersized returns
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Netflix has big ambitions for live sport
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Christmas NFL games are just the start
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| 2-Jan-2025
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Beware the dangers of data
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Numbers have an authority that disguises their flaws
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| 24-Mar-2025
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MAGA’s war on talent frightens CEOs—and angers Elon Musk
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American businesses’ ability to tap the world’s human capital is under threat
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| 24-Mar-2025
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A new electricity supercycle is under way
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Why spending on power infrastructure is surging around the world
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Alcohol-free drinks are becoming big business
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Will Mark Zuckerberg’s Trump gamble pay off?
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He risks making enemies elsewhere
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| 24-Mar-2025
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America’s internet giants are being outplayed in the global south
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From e-commerce to online banking, regional competitors are innovating rapidly
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| 24-Mar-2025
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The signals of workplace submissiveness
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Deference is all around you, unfortunately
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Foxconn and other gadget-makers are expanding their empires
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The world’s contract manufacturers are moving into new products and places
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| 24-Mar-2025
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What next for US Steel?
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The faded industrial icon has few good options without a Nippon deal
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Meet the ambitious wolf cubs of Wall Street
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A duo of whippersnappers is taking on Goldman Sachs
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Why elite MBA graduates are struggling to find jobs
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Is a degree still worth it?
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| 24-Mar-2025
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One of the biggest energy IPOs in a decade could be around the corner
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Venture Global, a large American gas exporter, is going public
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Can the Gulf states become tech superpowers?
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The region’s rulers want to move away from fossil fuels
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| 24-Mar-2025
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The year ahead: a message from the CEO
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From the desk of Stew Pidd
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Will Elon Musk scrap his plan to invest in a gigafactory in Mexico?
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Donald Trump’s return to the White House may have changed Tesla’s plans
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| 24-Mar-2025
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The UFC, Dana White and the rise of bloodsport entertainment
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There is more to the mixed-martial-arts impresario than his friendship with Donald Trump
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Germany is going nuts for Dubai chocolate
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Will the hype last?
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Donald Trump once tried to ban TikTok. Now can he save it?
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To keep the app alive in America, he must persuade China to sell up
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| 24-Mar-2025
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OpenAI’s latest model will change the economics of software
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The more reasoning it does, the more computer power it uses
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Donald Trump’s America will not become a tech oligarchy
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Reasons not to panic about the tech-industrial complex
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| 24-Mar-2025
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A $500bn investment plan says a lot about Trump’s AI priorities
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It’s build, baby, build
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Knowing what your colleagues earn
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The pros and cons of greater pay transparency
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Germans are world champions of calling in sick
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It’s easy and it pays well
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| 24-Mar-2025
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DeepSeek sends a shockwave through markets
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A cheap Chinese language model has investors in Silicon Valley asking questions
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Nvidia is in danger of losing its monopoly-like margins
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But don’t count it out yet
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| 24-Mar-2025
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DeepSeek poses a challenge to Beijing as much as to Silicon Valley
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The story of Liang Wenfeng, the model-maker’s mysterious founder
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| 24-Mar-2025
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No one gains from American tariffs on cars from Mexico and Canada
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Donald Trump’s levy will hit his country’s carmakers hardest
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| 24-Mar-2025
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From cribs to carriers, high-end baby products are in vogue
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Demographic and technological changes are making infancy more expensive
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| 24-Mar-2025
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The allure of the company town
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Lego, Corning and the survival of an old idea
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| 24-Mar-2025
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What Elon Musk should learn from Larry Ellison
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The founder of Oracle has demonstrated remarkable staying power
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Football clubs are making more money than ever. Players not so much
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For both teams and their top stars, it helps to have a brand
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Corporate America’s diversity wars are just getting started
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Donald Trump’s attacks on DEI are causing huge headaches for bosses
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Can Nintendo’s new console propel it to even greater heights?
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The Switch 2 is another bet that price and portability will beat processing clout
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| 24-Mar-2025
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The data-centre investment spree shows no signs of stopping
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Demand for processing power will continue to outpace supply
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| 24-Mar-2025
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An encounter with the reception desk
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The place where first impressions are made
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Shein and Temu are in Donald Trump’s cross-hairs
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An end to the de minimis exemption will hurt Chinese e-commerce firms—and enrage American consumers
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Donald Trump loves big oil. Does big oil love him back?
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American supermajors’ shareholders have mixed feelings
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| 10-Feb-2025
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German business is being suffocated by high costs and red tape
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Many bosses doubt that the upcoming election will change that
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| 24-Mar-2025
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BP is underperforming and under pressure
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Yet another strategic U-turn is on the cards
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Elon Musk’s $97bn offer is a headache for Sam Altman’s OpenAI
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Tesla’s boss is willing to use whatever means he can to hobble his opponent
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Chinese cars are taking over the global south
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Petrol engines, not batteries, are powering their growth
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| 24-Mar-2025
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How to get people to resign
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Without torching the organisation or losing your best employees
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Could a German startup disrupt Europe’s arms industry?
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Meet Helsing, Europe’s defence-tech unicorn
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Defence tech is blowing up Silicon Valley’s beliefs
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Hardware is all the rage. So is patriotism
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| 24-Mar-2025
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It’s not just AI. China’s medicines are surprising the world, too
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Its firms are at the forefront of cheaper, faster drug discovery
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Why Xi Jinping is making nice with China’s tech billionaires
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Jack Ma’s return may be the most lucrative of all time
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Elon Musk spells danger for Accenture, McKinsey and their rivals
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Why the American government could turn against consultants
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Europe is set to start cutting red tape—lightly
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But those hoping for radical deregulation will be sorely disappointed
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Hollywood’s Trump-baiting Oscars
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As Silicon Valley embraces the president, legacy media steers clear
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| 24-Mar-2025
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Leaving the seat of power
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The doctrine of management by walking around matters more than ever
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| 27-Feb-2025
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A guide to dodging Donald Trump’s tariffs
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How companies can lessen the blow from the American president’s assault on trade
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| 27-Feb-2025
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Nvidia is fighting both Trump and China
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Can the sizzling revenue growth last?
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| 27-Feb-2025
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The trouble with MAGA’s chipmaking dreams
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TSMC will keep making most of the world’s advanced chips at home for years to come
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| 27-Feb-2025
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Zyn is giving investors a buzz—for now
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Nicotine pouches are growing fast
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| 28-Feb-2025
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The business of second-hand clothing is booming
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Can it be profitable, too?
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| 27-Feb-2025
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Airbus has not taken full advantage of Boeing’s weakness
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That could leave a gap for other planemakers to fill
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| 28-Feb-2025
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The smiling new face of German big business
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From Allianz to Zalando, pedlars of services are outdoing industrial firms at home—and foreign rivals abroad
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| 27-Feb-2025
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The Economist’s office agony uncle is back
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Another bulging postbag for Max Flannel
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| 6-Mar-2025
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America's carmakers win a tariff reprieve, but still face a tricky dilemma
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They must hope levies are never imposed
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| 6-Mar-2025
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As Germany’s defence stocks go ballistic, armsmakers are tooling up
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They are snapping up staff and sites from ailing firms
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| 6-Mar-2025
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The pay gap between men and women won’t go away
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Our glass-ceiling index makes gloomy reading
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| 10-Mar-2025
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The behaviour that annoys colleagues more than any other
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And the reasons to try to remain calm
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| 6-Mar-2025
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Catering to protein-rich diets is a tasty business
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“High protein” is the new “low calorie”
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| 10-Mar-2025
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Mistral, Europe’s biggest AI startup, is blowing hot
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Not being American or Chinese may now be a help, not a hindrance
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| 6-Mar-2025
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The world’s trustbusters hint that they want more deals
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Do they really?
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| 13-Mar-2025
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China’s AI boom is reaching astonishing proportions
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What might derail it?
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| 13-Mar-2025
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Trump’s metals tariffs will cost American industry dearly
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Not least because the president keeps threatening to ratchet up duties
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| 13-Mar-2025
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Elon Musk’s antics are not the only problem for Tesla
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The carmaker’s sales are sinking for other reasons too
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| 13-Mar-2025
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Western companies are experimenting with DeepSeek
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But concerns over security, censorship and dependence on China remain
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| 13-Mar-2025
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The importance of repetition in the workplace
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The importance of repetition in the workplace
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| 13-Mar-2025
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7-Eleven is still struggling to fend off its Canadian suitor
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| 27-Mar-2025
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| 27-Mar-2025
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| 27-Mar-2025
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| 27-Mar-2025
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| 27-Mar-2025
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| 28-Mar-2025
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What space, submarines and polar research teach about teamwork
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| 1-Apr-2025
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Donald Trump’s plan for American carmaking is full of potholes
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| 31-Mar-2025
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Donald Trump’s plan for American carmaking is full of potholes |
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| 27-Mar-2025
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What space, submarines and polar research teach about teamwork |
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| 27-Mar-2025
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Teams and extremes |
What space, submarines and polar research teach about teamwork
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| 27-Mar-2025
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How safe is your DNA in a bankruptcy? |
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| 27-Mar-2025
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Barnes & Noble, a bookstore, is back in the business of selling books |
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Big law’s capitulation to Donald Trump may be bad for business |
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| 26-Mar-2025
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| 26-Mar-2025
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Big law’s capitulation to Donald Trump is a business failure |
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| 25-Mar-2025
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ASML’s boss has a warning for Europe |
Christophe Fouquet threatens to head elsewhere if his firm is not better protected
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| 23-Mar-2025
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Musk Inc is under serious threat |
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| 20-Mar-2025
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East Asia’s armsmakers are on the rise |
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| 20-Mar-2025
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Should BHP, Rio Tinto and Vale learn from Chinese rivals? |
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| 20-Mar-2025
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The horrors of shared docs |
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| 20-Mar-2025
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The luxury industry is poised for a deal wave |
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| 20-Mar-2025
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How hospitals inflate America’s giant health-care bill |
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| 20-Mar-2025
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East Asia’s arms-makers are on the rise |
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| 17-Mar-2025
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Will Trump’s tariffs turbocharge foreign investment in America? |
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| 13-Mar-2025
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America First may be a boon for Walmart’s Mexican business |
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| 13-Mar-2025
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The race to elect the next head of the Olympics is heating up |
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| 13-Mar-2025
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7-Eleven is still struggling to fend off its Canadian suitor |
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| 13-Mar-2025
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The importance of repetition in the workplace |
The importance of repetition in the workplace
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| 13-Mar-2025
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Western companies are experimenting with DeepSeek |
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| 12-Mar-2025
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Elon Musk’s antics are not the only problem for Tesla |
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| 11-Mar-2025
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Trump’s metals tariffs will cost American industry dearly |
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| 11-Mar-2025
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| 6-Mar-2025
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The world’s trustbusters hint that they want more deals |
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| 6-Mar-2025
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The behaviour that annoys colleagues more than any other |
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| 6-Mar-2025
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Mistral, Europe’s biggest AI startup, is blowing hot |
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| 6-Mar-2025
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The pay gap between men and women won’t go away |
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| 6-Mar-2025
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Catering to protein-rich diets is a tasty business |
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| 6-Mar-2025
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| 4-Mar-2025
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America's carmakers win a tariff reprieve, but still face a tricky dilemma |
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| 4-Mar-2025
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How Trump’s tariffs could crush American carmakers |
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| 4-Mar-2025
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How Trump’s tariffs will crush American carmakers |
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| 27-Feb-2025
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The business of second-hand clothing is booming |
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| 27-Feb-2025
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The smiling new face of German big business |
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| 27-Feb-2025
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The Economist’s office agony uncle is back |
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| 27-Feb-2025
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The business of secondhand clothing is booming |
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| 27-Feb-2025
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Airbus has not taken full advantage of Boeing’s weakness |
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| 27-Feb-2025
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Zyn is giving investors a buzz—for now |
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| 24-Feb-2025
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A guide to dodging Donald Trump’s tariffs |
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| 25-Feb-2025
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Nvidia is fighting both Trump and China |
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| 25-Feb-2025
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Nvidia is fighting off two threats. Both involve China |
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| 26-Feb-2025
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The trouble with MAGA’s chipmaking dreams |
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| 25-Feb-2025
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Nvidia is fighting off two threats |
DeepSeek and Donald Trump
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| 24-Feb-2025
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A guide to dodging Trump’s tariffs |
How companies can lessen the blow from the American president’s assault on trade
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| 20-Feb-2025
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Hollywood’s Trump-baiting Oscars |
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| 20-Feb-2025
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Leaving the seat of power |
The doctrine of management by walking around matters more than ever
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| 20-Feb-2025
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Europe is set to start cutting red tape—lightly |
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| 19-Feb-2025
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Elon Musk spells danger for Accenture, McKinsey and their rivals |
Why the American government could turn against consultants
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| 17-Feb-2025
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Xi’s rehabilitation of Jack Ma may be the most lucrative ever |
Why China’s leader is making nice with the country’s tech billionaires
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| 17-Feb-2025
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Xi Jinping’s rehabilitation of Jack Ma may be the most lucrative ever |
Why China’s leader is making nice with the country’s tech billionaires
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| 17-Feb-2025
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Why Xi Jinping is making nice with China’s tech billionaires |
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| 16-Feb-2025
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It’s not just AI. China’s medicines are surprising the world, too |
Its firms are at the forefront of cheaper, faster drug discovery
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| 13-Feb-2025
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Defence tech is blowing up Silicon Valley’s beliefs |
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| 13-Feb-2025
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How to get people to resign |
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| 13-Feb-2025
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Could a German startup disrupt Europe’s arms industry? |
Meet Helsing, Europe’s defence-tech unicorn
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| 13-Feb-2025
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Chinese cars are taking over the global south |
Petrol engines, not batteries, are powering their growth
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| 11-Feb-2025
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Elon Musk’s $97bn offer is a headache for Sam Altman’s OpenAI |
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| 11-Feb-2025
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Elon Musk’s $97bn offer is a nuisance for Sam Altman’s OpenAI |
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| 11-Feb-2025
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BP is underperforming and under pressure |
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| 9-Feb-2025
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German business is being suffocated by high costs and red tape |
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| 6-Feb-2025
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Donald Trump loves big oil. Does big oil love him back? |
American supermajors’ shareholders have mixed feelings
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| 6-Feb-2025
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An encounter with the reception desk |
The place where first impressions are made
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| 6-Feb-2025
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Shein and Temu are in Donald Trump’s cross-hairs |
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| 5-Feb-2025
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The data-centre investment spree shows no signs of stopping |
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| 4-Feb-2025
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Can Nintendo’s new console propel it to even greater heights? |
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| 2-Feb-2025
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Corporate America’s diversity wars are just getting started |
Donald Trump’s attacks on DEI are causing huge headaches for bosses
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| 30-Jan-2025
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How DeepSeek will upend the AI pecking order |
Cheaper models will create both winners and losers
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| 30-Jan-2025
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What Elon Musk should learn from Larry Ellison |
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| 30-Jan-2025
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The allure of the company town |
Lego, Corning and the survival of an old idea
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| 30-Jan-2025
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From cribs to carriers, high-end baby products are in vogue |
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| 30-Jan-2025
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Football clubs are making more money than ever. Players not so much |
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| 30-Jan-2025
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No one gains from American tariffs on cars from Mexico and Canada |
Donald Trump’s levy will hit his country’s carmakers hardest
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| 29-Jan-2025
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DeepSeek poses a challenge to Beijing as much as to Silicon Valley |
The story of Liang Wenfeng, the model-maker’s mysterious founder
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| 28-Jan-2025
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Nvidia is in danger of losing its monopoly-like margins |
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| 27-Jan-2025
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DeepSeek sends a shockwave through markets |
A cheap Chinese language model has investors in Silicon Valley asking questions
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| 23-Jan-2025
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Knowing what your colleagues earn |
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| 23-Jan-2025
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Germans are world champions of calling in sick |
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| 17-Jan-2025
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Donald Trump once tried to ban TikTok. Now can he save it? |
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| 22-Jan-2025
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A $500bn investment plan says a lot about Trump’s AI priorities |
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| 21-Jan-2025
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Donald Trump’s America will not become a tech oligarchy |
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| 20-Jan-2025
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OpenAI’s latest model will change the economics of software |
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| 17-Jan-2025
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TikTok’s time is up. Can Donald Trump save it? |
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| 16-Jan-2025
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The UFC, Dana White and the rise of bloodsport entertainment |
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| 16-Jan-2025
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The year ahead: a message from the CEO |
From the desk of Stew Pidd
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| 16-Jan-2025
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Germany is going nuts for Dubai chocolate |
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| 16-Jan-2025
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Will Elon Musk scrap his plan to invest in a gigafactory in Mexico? |
Donald Trump’s return to the White House may have changed Tesla’s plans
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| 16-Jan-2025
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One of the biggest energy IPOs in a decade could be around the corner |
Venture Global, a large American gas exporter, is going public
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| 16-Jan-2025
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Can the Gulf states become tech superpowers? |
The region’s rulers want to move away from fossil fuels
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| 14-Jan-2025
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Why elite MBA graduates are struggling to find jobs |
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| 9-Jan-2025
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Meet the ambitious wolf cubs of Wall Street |
A duo of whippersnappers is taking on Goldman Sachs
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| 9-Jan-2025
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The signals of workplace submissiveness |
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| 9-Jan-2025
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What next for US Steel? |
The faded industrial icon has few good options without a Nippon deal
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| 9-Jan-2025
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Foxconn and other gadget-makers are expanding their empires |
The world’s contract manufacturers are moving into new products and places
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| 6-Jan-2025
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Alcohol-free drinks are becoming big business |
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| 9-Jan-2025
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America’s internet giants are being outplayed in the global south |
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| 8-Jan-2025
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Will Mark Zuckerberg’s Trump gamble pay off? |
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| 6-Jan-2025
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Alcohol-free booze is becoming big business |
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| 5-Jan-2025
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A new electricity supercycle is under way |
Why spending on power infrastructure is surging around the world
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| 2-Jan-2025
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MAGA’s war on talent frightens CEOs—and angers Elon Musk |
American businesses’ ability to tap the world’s human capital is under threat
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| 2-Jan-2025
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Beware the dangers of data |
Numbers have an authority that disguises their flaws
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| 2-Jan-2025
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Meet Silicon Valley’s shrewdest talent spotters |
An elite group of early-stage investors make supersized returns
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| 2-Jan-2025
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Netflix has big ambitions for live sport |
Christmas NFL games are just the start
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| 1-Jan-2025
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America’s marijuana industry is wilting |
Donald Trump seems to want looser rules on pot. Why are investors not excited?
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| 31-Dec-2024
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China is catching up with America in quantum technology |
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| 30-Dec-2024
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Why are Nordic companies so successful? |
From IKEA to Novo Nordisk, many of Europe’s top firms come from the region
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| 26-Dec-2024
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Who was the best CEO of 2024? |
Our annual assessment of the world’s business bigwigs
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| 19-Dec-2024
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Meet the most ruthless CEO in the trillion-dollar tech club |
Hock Tan of Broadcom is less Jensen Huang or Tim Cook and more Jack Welch on steroids
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| 19-Dec-2024
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The business of nicknames |
When they help brands and employees. And when they hurt
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| 19-Dec-2024
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Can Lego remain the world’s coolest toymaker? |
And get greener too?
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| 18-Dec-2024
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A tie-up between Honda and Nissan will not fix their problems |
Speed, not scale, is what they require
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| 17-Dec-2024
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Workers love Donald Trump. Unions should fear him |
The president-elect is no friend to organised labour
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| 16-Dec-2024
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Why Louis Vuitton is struggling but Hermès is not |
Worries that the luxury business is peaking are overblown
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| 12-Dec-2024
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Tesla, Intel and the fecklessness of corporate boards |
Too many directors at American companies aren’t doing their job
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| 12-Dec-2024
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The employee awards for 2024 |
Least accurate website photo. Best AI-washer. Let’s celebrate our winners
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| 12-Dec-2024
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What Trump’s new antitrust enforcers mean for business |
Expect easier dealmaking. Unless you are in Silicon Valley
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| 12-Dec-2024
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Farewell, Don Draper: AI is coming for advertising |
Omnicom’s takeover of Interpublic signals an industry in trouble
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| 11-Dec-2024
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Why judges were wrong to block the Kroger-Albertsons merger |
Antitrust concerns rest on an outdated idea of how Americans shop
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| 11-Dec-2024
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What do the gods of generative AI have in store for 2025? |
OpenAI and Google have unveiled their next generation of products
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| 10-Dec-2024
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The PayPal Mafia is taking over America’s government |
America’s right-wing tech bros are celebrating Donald Trump’s victory
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| 8-Dec-2024
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From Apple to Starbucks, Western firms’ China dreams are dying |
Economic growth is slowing, competition is stiffening and geopolitical tensions loom
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| 5-Dec-2024
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Not all European business is a profitless wasteland |
How to spot a corporate star, old-world edition
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| 5-Dec-2024
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How to inspire people |
The answer is not another video of Steve Jobs
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| 5-Dec-2024
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Will Europe ease up on big tech? |
The clash between Silicon Valley and Brussels enters a new phase
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| 5-Dec-2024
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Can teenagers outwit Australia’s social-media ban? |
Enforcing the new law may prove tricky
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| 4-Dec-2024
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Russian businesses are beginning to bear the cost of war |
Soaring interest rates, a plunging currency and labour shortages are biting harder
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| 3-Dec-2024
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How painful will Trump’s tariffs be for American businesses? |
Their options range from hoarding goods and raising prices to rewiring supply chains
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| 2-Dec-2024
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Intel’s troubles deepen, as its boss makes an abrupt exit |
Pat Gelsinger’s surprise departure poses a dilemma for Donald Trump
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On stupid rules and quick wins |
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| 28-Nov-2024
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| 27-Nov-2024
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Elon Musk’s xAI goes after OpenAI |
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| 20-Nov-2024
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| 20-Nov-2024
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Does Dallas offer a vision of Trumpian America? |
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| 21-Nov-2024
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How to behave in lifts: an office guide |
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Gautam Adani faces bribery charges in America |
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| 21-Nov-2024
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Nvidia’s boss dismisses fears that AI has hit a wall |
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| 20-Nov-2024
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Does Dallas offer a vision of a Trumpian America? |
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| 20-Nov-2024
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Dallas: Utopia for the Trump-curious CEO |
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| 20-Nov-2024
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What ChatGPT’s corporate victims have in common |
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| 19-Nov-2024
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Spirit’s woes reveal the dismal state of America’s budget airlines |
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| 19-Nov-2024
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| 14-Nov-2024
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The magic and the minefield of confidence |
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| 14-Nov-2024
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Elliott Management wants to split Honeywell in two
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| 14-Nov-2024
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Big oil may be softening its stance on climate-change regulation |
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| 14-Nov-2024
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| 14-Nov-2024
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TSMC walks a geopolitical tightrope |
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| 14-Nov-2024
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America Inc is hoping for a tax bonanza. It may be disappointed |
Donald Trump’s promise of big tax cuts may not materialise
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| 13-Nov-2024
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Donald Trump is bad news for German business |
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| 11-Nov-2024
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Tesla is not the only winner under Donald Trump |
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| 7-Nov-2024
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What would Elon Musk do in government? |
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| 7-Nov-2024
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Why being wrong is good for you |
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| 7-Nov-2024
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How will business deal with Donald Trump this time? |
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| 7-Nov-2024
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Oil bosses have big hopes for the AI boom |
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| 7-Nov-2024
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India’s startup scene is picking up speed again |
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| 5-Nov-2024
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Huawei’s new made-in-China software takes on Apple and Android |
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| 4-Nov-2024
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Why your company is struggling to scale up generative AI |
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| 31-Oct-2024
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Can anyone besides Nvidia make big bucks from chips? |
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| 31-Oct-2024
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How to beat jet lag |
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| 31-Oct-2024
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China is tightening its grip on the world’s minerals |
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| 31-Oct-2024
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Can Japan’s toilet technology crack global markets? |
The leading maker of electronic bidets shows the difficulties facing Japanese companies abroad
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| 31-Oct-2024
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Volkswagen’s woes illustrate Germany’s creeping deindustrialisation |
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| 29-Oct-2024
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Too many people want to be social-media influencers |
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| 28-Oct-2024
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What if Microsoft let OpenAI go free? |
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| 24-Oct-2024
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| 24-Oct-2024
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How to manage politics in the workplace |
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| 24-Oct-2024
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Memory chips could be the next bottleneck for AI |
SK Hynix is dominating the market
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| 22-Oct-2024
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America’s growing profits are under threat |
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| 24-Oct-2024
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Competition will make weight-loss drugs better, cheaper and bigger |
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| 24-Oct-2024
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South-East Asia’s stodgy conglomerates are holding it back |
The region’s ageing corporate empires are stuck in the past—and too cosy with politicians
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| 23-Oct-2024
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| 22-Oct-2024
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America’s profit machine is under threat |
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| 20-Dec-2023
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How an ugly marital feud could change Indian business |
Independent directors could become less toothless
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| 20-Dec-2023
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Big tech and geopolitics are reshaping the internet’s plumbing |
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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 |
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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? |
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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? |
ASML, a mighty Dutch tech firm, is at the heart of a critical supply chain
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| 9-Jan-2024
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Faulty door plugs open old wounds at Boeing |
The American planemaker’s image takes another hit
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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 |
He has unfinished businesses in making his tax reforms of 2017 permanent
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| 8-Feb-2024
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Can Giorgia Meloni reinvigorate Italia SpA? |
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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? |
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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 |
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| 20-Feb-2024
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Is running a top university America’s hardest job? |
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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 |
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| 22-Feb-2024
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The making of a PowerPoint slide |
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| 22-Feb-2024
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Why does landlocked Eswatini have a ship registry? |
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| 22-Feb-2024
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The world’s biggest maker of spectacles wants to be a tech firm |
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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 |
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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? |
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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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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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Bob Iger has defeated Nelson Peltz at Disney. Now what? |
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India’s biggest conglomerate takes on chipmaking |
Tata Group goes into growth mode
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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 |
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| 7-Apr-2024
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| 11-Apr-2024
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Generative AI has a clean-energy problem |
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| 11-Apr-2024
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TSMC’s American chipmaking plans grow $25bn more ambitious |
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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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| 14-Apr-2024
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Generative AI is a marvel. Is it also built on theft? |
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| 15-Apr-2024
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America hits Chinese biotech—and its own drugmakers |
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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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| 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 |
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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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| 25-Apr-2024
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| 25-Apr-2024
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Will war snuff out the Gulf’s global business ambitions? |
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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? |
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| 2-May-2024
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How not to work on a plane |
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| 2-May-2024
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Does Perplexity’s “answer engine” threaten Google? |
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| 5-May-2024
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AI and other tricks are bringing power lines into the 21st century |
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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 |
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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 |
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| 16-May-2024
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How to be a good follower |
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| 16-May-2024
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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? |
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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 |
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| 23-May-2024
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Americans are fretting over their body odour |
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| 23-May-2024
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Walmart’s latest product? Its customers |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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| 17-Oct-2024
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What if carmaking went the way of consumer electronics? |
The Foxconnification of electric vehicles
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| 17-Oct-2024
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The horrors of the reply-all email thread |
Easy to start, impossible to stop
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| 17-Oct-2024
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BHP and Rio Tinto are heading in different directions |
The strategies of the world’s two most valuable miners are diverging
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| 17-Oct-2024
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Poland’s stockmarket has a hot new entrant |
The IPO of Zabka could help revive Warsaw’s beleaguered bourse
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| 16-Oct-2024
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Can artificial intelligence rescue customer service? |
The adoption of AI is surging in call centres
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| 16-Oct-2024
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Pity the superstar fashion designer |
Creative directors are coming and going faster than the latest trends
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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 |
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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 |
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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? |
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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 |
Will it pay off?
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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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