Diverse leadership is not a soft metric. McKinsey's 2020 'Diversity Wins' report found that companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on executive teams were 25 percent more likely...
Alan Yau sold his stake in Wagamama in the late 1990s, years before the chain became a national fixture. The brand he founded in a single Bloomsbury site in 1992...
The individual who held the position of Zipcar UK General Manager at the time of this interview has since left the role or the business. Executive tenures in such positions...
In 2011, two of the most successful technology enterprises in the world made choices that cost them billions. Netflix split its operation in half and shed 1.2 million subscribers in...
In August 2007, Thomasina Miers, who had won the BBC television competition MasterChef two years earlier, opened the first Wahaca in London's Covent Garden. The chain grew into a well-known...
A small business that relies only on social media or a marketplace like Etsy or Amazon is renting its storefront. The platform controls the algorithm, the terms, the customer data,...
On June 27, 2022, Siemens AG agreed to buy Brightly Software, a U.S. provider of cloud-based asset and maintenance management software, for $1.875 billion in cash. The seller was private...
Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Minister of Presidential Affairs, controls a global portfolio that stretches across football clubs, carmakers, space...
In October 2018, Richard Branson stepped down as chairman of Virgin Hyperloop One, the startup he had backed less than a year earlier. The immediate trigger was a fatal Virgin...
In 2015, all UN Member States adopted the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change. A decade later, those commitments face their most serious test. Inflation, energy...
In February 2017, Kraft Heinz made an unsolicited $143 billion takeover offer for Unilever. Paul Polman, then chief executive, rejected the bid within hours. Two days later, Kraft Heinz withdrew....
The US-China trade war began in earnest in July 2018 with US Section 301 tariffs on Chinese goods. It forced multinational technology firms to rethink supply chains that took decades...
