Office Design History: From Taylorist Floors to Hybrid Work
Every office layout encodes a theory about how people should work. The open floor of 1906, the cubicle farm of the 1970s, the dot-com playground of the 1990s, and the...
Business Strategy
Examines corporate leadership, market valuation, labor unions, regulatory overhauls, and founder trajectories.
Ginni Rometty on Trust as a Business Imperative at IBM
In 2018, IBM Chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty took the stage at a major industry event to argue that trust had become the most important currency in the digital era....
Startups: 90% fail, founders reveal costs.
Roughly 90% of startups fail, according to Startup Genome. For every celebrated unicorn, nine other ventures dissolve, sell for parts, or go dark. Their creators do not appear on magazine...
Esports sponsorship bubble bursts after 2020 boom
Corporate sponsorship in competitive gaming grew from a niche marketing experiment into a billion-dollar industry between 2017 and 2021. Then it collapsed. The peak was the FTX-TSM naming rights deal,...
Every major company Google bought and what happened next
Google and its parent Alphabet Inc. have bought hundreds of companies since the search engine launched on September 4, 1998. The exact tally stays hidden because the company rarely discloses...
Matthew Luhn teaches Pixar storytelling to Fortune 500
Matthew Luhn spent years shaping some of the most affecting animated films ever made. As a story artist and animator at Pixar Animation Studios, he worked on the Toy Story...
Orange's 5G industrial strategy lags
Helmut Reisinger became CEO of Orange Business Services in May 2018. Over the next four years, he positioned the B2B division of Orange S.A. to treat 5G not as a...
Appian CEO on $2B Pegasystems Victory
In May 2022, a Virginia jury found Pegasystems Inc. guilty of misappropriating Appian's trade secrets and awarded Appian $2.036 billion. The verdict was the largest trade secrets award in Virginia...
BAME leaders hold 8% of UK FTSE board seats
In 2017 Sir John Parker published a government-backed review with a simple goal: every FTSE 100 board should include at least one director from an ethnic minority background by December...
Red Bull clears Horner after probe
In early February 2024, Red Bull Racing publicly confirmed that an investigation had been opened into its team principal Christian Horner after a female employee alleged inappropriate behaviour. The complaint...
Ranking the World's Largest Tech Companies by Market Cap
Apple became the first publicly traded US company to reach a $3 trillion market capitalization on June 30, 2023. Five years earlier, on August 2, 2018, it had been the...
Footballers shift to VC and startups post-career
A growing cohort of professional footballers is skipping the traditional post-retirement roles of punditry and coaching in favor of venture capital, private equity, and tech startups. The shift reflects a...
