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The world’s biggest maker of spectacles wants to be a tech firm

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Over the course of six decades Leonardo Del Vecchio, an Italian entrepreneur who...

Is running a top university America’s hardest job?

Wanted: presidents for America’s top universities. Applicants must possess an unimpeachable academic record. Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigned as president of Stanford University in July 2023 after a report found serious problems with the...

Why the world’s mining companies are so stingy

Mining companies have spent much of the past decade in investors’ bad books. Throughout the 2000s and early 2010s the industry, betting that the surge in commodity prices brought on by China’s...

How to benefit from the conversations you have at work

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Successful workplaces are usually characterised by good communication. Bosses provide a clear sense...

The row over US Steel shows the new meaning of national security

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Last summer US Steel was considering taking the capitalists’ way out—by selling itself....

Japan’s semiconductor toolmakers are booming

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Corporate Japan, long snubbed by investors, has been the source of much attention...

Would-be suitors are wooing Paramount

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.From “GREASE” to “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, Paramount Pictures has produced plenty of good...

How worried should Amazon be about Shein and Temu?

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.“Shop like a billionaire.” With that enticing slogan Temu touted itself to Americans...

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