Drunk at office party can lead to sacking
Yes, a company can sack you for getting drunk at the office Christmas party, provided the conduct that follows the drinking amounts to gross misconduct. Several UK employment tribunals have...
Business Strategy
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TSB CEO Paul Pester's 2018 IT meltdown
Paul Pester resigned as CEO of TSB on 4 September 2018, five months after an IT migration locked up to 1.9 million account holders out of their finances for weeks....
How Tariffs Reshaped Apple's Supply Chain and iPhone Prices
Between 2018 and 2020, the US-China trade war under President Donald Trump threatened Apple's cost structure directly. The company faced levies on its most important devices: Apple Watch, AirPods, iPhone,...
SoftBank lost billions on self-driving bets
SoftBank Group placed roughly $5.5 billion into autonomous vehicle businesses between 2018 and 2019. By April 2024, the bulk of that money had been written down, returned at a loss,...
Enter new markets: a 4-step framework
Entering a new geography is not one decision. It is a sequence of choices about which territory to enter, how to enter it, what to sell, whom to hire, and...
Tesla UK factory lost to Brexit, Berlin wins
Tesla seriously evaluated building its first European Gigafactory in Somerset, England, but chose a site near Berlin instead. The UK’s 2016 vote to leave the European Union created regulatory, trade...
HERE Technologies shuts its mobility unit.
In December 2019, HERE Technologies shut down HERE Mobility, a business unit that had been building a B2B marketplace for ride-hailing, taxis, and on-demand transport. The closure ended a four-year...
What Early Adopters of Workplace Tech Actually Get Right
In the workplace, an early adopter is not the person who queues for a new iPhone. Everett Rogers mapped the categories in his 1962 book Diffusion of Innovations, but enterprise...
Unbabel's Widn.AI Ends Human Translation Role
In late 2023 or early 2024, Unbabel announced a product that removes the human translators from its own translation pipeline. The Lisbon and San Francisco based company, which reached a...
Cloud Gaming Post Mortem: Stadia, Luna, GeForce Now, xCloud
Google Stadia launched on November 19, 2019 with the promise of a console-free future. It shut down on January 18, 2023, after Google refunded every hardware and software purchase. The...
How Companies Are Profiting from Climate Change
Climate change is creating new revenue streams for a growing number of businesses. These companies are not just managing risk. They are selling goods and services that depend on a...
P&G CEO defends Gillette ad backlash
In January 2019, Procter & Gamble CEO David Taylor found himself defending a Gillette advert that had split the internet in two. The 'We Believe' short film, released online on...
