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Donald Trump’s victory has boosted shares in private-prison companies

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A hard line means hard cash

How to behave in lifts: an office guide

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Life in an elevator

Gautam Adani faces bribery charges in America

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Prosecutors allege one of India’s richest men paid off local officials

Nvidia’s boss dismisses fears that AI has hit a wall

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But it’s “urgent” to get to the next level, Jensen Huang tells The Economist

Dallas: Utopia for the Trump-curious CEO

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The Texan city embodies the allure of small government

What ChatGPT’s corporate victims have in common

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The first casualties of generative AI offer lessons for other businesses

Spirit’s woes reveal the dismal state of America’s budget airlines

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Its bankruptcy shows how strained the low-cost model has become

How Chinese is Shein?

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For the fast-fashion giant, nationality has become a vexed question

TSMC walks a geopolitical tightrope

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Taiwan’s giant chipmaker must balance demands from America, China and home

Nike and Adidas are losing their lead in running shoes

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On, Hoka and other challengers are catching up fast

The magic and the minefield of confidence

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Self-doubt, hubris and everything in between

America Inc is hoping for a tax bonanza. It may be disappointed

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Donald Trump’s promise of big tax cuts may not materialise

Big oil may be softening its stance on climate-change regulation

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ExxonMobil’s boss wants America to stick with the Paris accord

Is America’s last big industrial conglomerate about to break up?

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Elliott Management wants to split Honeywell in two

Donald Trump is bad news for German business

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But some companies will be hit much harder than others

Tesla is not the only winner under Donald Trump

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Which businesses will thrive over the next four years?

How will business deal with Donald Trump this time?

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Very carefully

What would Elon Musk do in government?

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No CEO has ever bet so big on a commander-in-chief—and won

Why being wrong is good for you

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Even the most prolific blunderers can go on to do great things

Oil bosses have big hopes for the AI boom

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Data centres are fuelling demand for natural gas—for now

India’s startup scene is picking up speed again

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Zippy new firms are emerging in a number of areas

Huawei’s new made-in-China software takes on Apple and Android

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With its latest operating system, it is cutting ties with Western tech

Why your company is struggling to scale up generative AI

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As employers hesitate, workers are ahead of the curve

Can anyone besides Nvidia make big bucks from chips?

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The strange economics of the semiconductor supply chain

How to beat jet lag

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And enjoy your journey as well

China is tightening its grip on the world’s minerals

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That is making Western policymakers anxious

Volkswagen’s woes illustrate Germany’s creeping deindustrialisation

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And intensify the problems of Olaf Scholz’s fractious coalition

Can Japan’s toilet technology crack global markets?

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The leading maker of electronic bidets shows the difficulties facing Japanese companies abroad

Too many people want to be social-media influencers

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That is good for companies but bad for “creators”

What if Microsoft let OpenAI go free?

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It may not be as crazy as it sounds

America’s glorious economy should help Kamala Harris

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Voters are starting to notice the good news just in time for the election

How to manage politics in the workplace

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Polarisation affects bosses as well as employees

Can Google or Huawei stymie Apple’s march towards $4trn?

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The contest for global smartphone dominance gets interesting

Memory chips could be the next bottleneck for AI

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SK Hynix is dominating the market

South-East Asia’s stodgy conglomerates are holding it back

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The region’s ageing corporate empires are stuck in the past—and too cosy with politicians

Competition will make weight-loss drugs better, cheaper and bigger

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Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly face a growing number of challengers

Are bosses right to insist that workers return to the office?

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Company mandates are infuriating employees

America’s growing profits are under threat

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Look beyond a bullish earnings season and risks loom

America’s profit machine is under threat

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Look beyond a bullish earnings season and risks loom

The horrors of the reply-all email thread

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Easy to start, impossible to stop

BHP and Rio Tinto are heading in different directions

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The strategies of the world’s two most valuable miners are diverging

What if carmaking went the way of consumer electronics?

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The Foxconnification of electric vehicles

Poland’s stockmarket has a hot new entrant

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The IPO of Zabka could help revive Warsaw’s beleaguered bourse

Pity the superstar fashion designer

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Creative directors are coming and going faster than the latest trends

Can artificial intelligence rescue customer service?

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The adoption of AI is surging in call centres

Why Microsoft Excel won’t die

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The business world’s favourite software program enters its 40th year

The trouble with Elon Musk’s robotaxi dream

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Scaling up self-driving taxis will be tough, and competition will be fierce

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, chemicals magnate turned sports mogul

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The British billionaire is buying up teams from sailing to football to cycling

China is writing the world’s technology rules

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It is setting standards for everything from 6G to quantum computing

When workplace bonuses backfire

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The gelignite of incentives