TL;DRKlaus Schwab introduced the Fourth Industrial Revolution concept, a fusion of physical, digital, and biological technologies.A 2017 McKinsey Global Institute study estimated 60 percent of occupations have at least 30...
Vanessa Brady OBE founded the Society of British and International Interior Design (SBID) and serves as its chief executive. At the ABB Leaf Awards, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award....
This reference piece draws on the International Churchill Society's database to separate Churchill's actual words from the lines often pasted onto his name. It treats Churchill as more than a...
On 25 April 2019, the UK Competition and Markets Authority formally blocked the proposed merger between J Sainsbury plc and Asda Group Ltd. Both companies walked away the same day....
Neil Shah became CEO of Slack in 2023, inheriting a business that had cycled through two leaders since Salesforce acquired it for $27.7 billion in July 2021. The question was...
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....
In the early 2020s, governments in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand did something they had avoided for decades: they made it a criminal offense to run an essay mill....
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,...
Eco-anxiety is a chronic fear of environmental doom. It is not a formal clinical diagnosis in the DSM-5 or ICD-11 as of early 2025, but the American Psychological Association has...
In September 2017, weeks after Hurricanes Irma and Maria tore through the Caribbean, Richard Branson and Usain Bolt stood together at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica....
Satya Nadella became a billionaire as Microsoft CEO not because of his salary, but because the company's market capitalization grew tenfold on his watch. As of early 2024, his net...
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...
