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Many CEOs fear a second Trump term would be worse than the first

When Donald Trump left office three years ago, still huffing, puffing and plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, the leaders of most of America’s biggest corporations were only...

German farmers and train drivers are scaring Germany’s bosses

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.In GERMany, where workers and bosses run many companies jointly, a big strike...

Saudi Arabia wants to be the Saudi Arabia of minerals

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.IN WA’AD AL-SHAMAL, 1,200km north of Riyadh, the Saudi capital, phosphate is extracted...

When your colleagues are also your rivals

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.The modern company exalts both competition and co-operation. Competition is the defining feature...

AI can transform education for the better

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.AS PUPILS AND students return to classrooms and lecture halls for the new...

Is Harvard Business School too woke?

It has been an inhospitable winter in Boston. Following the resignation of Claudine Gay as president of Harvard University on January 2nd, her interim replacement said he could not recall “a period...

Faulty door-plugs open old wounds at Boeing

NERVOUS TRAVELLERS will break out in a cold sweat seeing pictures of a gaping hole in the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9, blown out at 15,000 feet (4,600...

Europe at last has an answer to Silicon Valley

TEN TIMES a second an object shaped like a thick pizza box and holding a silicon wafer takes off three times faster than a manned rocket. For a few milliseconds it moves...

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