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Japan’s currency was one of the first challengers to the U.S. dollar—why 90s predictions of a ‘yen bloc’ fell apart
Commentary

Japan’s currency was one of the first challengers to the U.S. dollar—why 90s predictions of a ‘yen bloc’ fell apart

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March 21, 2025
How Paul Allen and Bill Gates landed on the idea for Microsoft after cycling through many other startup ideas
Tech

How Paul Allen and Bill Gates landed on the idea for Microsoft after cycling through many other startup ideas

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February 4, 2025
"The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong," by John Kay.
Leadership

Trump 2.0 will see corporations tempted by shareholder primacy even more. Sustainable success still comes from broader goals

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January 15, 2025
Quasi-religious beliefs have ended 200 years of European growth, author argues
Commentary

Quasi-religious beliefs have ended 200 years of European growth, author argues

By
December 3, 2024
Ashton Kutcher and David Sacks
Finance

How celebrities became VCs and VCs became celebrities  

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November 7, 2024
How a ‘halfway-pendulum’ approach to stakeholder capitalism helped Japan’s stock market reverse decades of losses
Finance

How a ‘halfway-pendulum’ approach to stakeholder capitalism helped Japan’s stock market reverse decades of losses

By Jusuke J. J. Ikegami, Harbir Singh and Michael Useem
October 24, 2024
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings
Success

Netflix beating Blockbuster once seemed unthinkable—but this way of looking at the world makes it obvious

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October 22, 2024
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
Leadership

Seth Godin: Jeff Bezos built Amazon with a strategy based on embracing change

By
October 21, 2024
How the behavioral economics of Uber drivers reveal what really drives the workforce
Success

How the behavioral economics of Uber drivers reveal what really drives the workforce

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October 17, 2024
Jeff Bezos created a culture at Amazon of appreciating the input—including the idea for Amazon Prime—of people at all levels of the corporate hierarchy.
Leadership

Jeff Bezos’s ‘truth telling’ culture led to big ideas like Amazon Prime

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October 17, 2024
You can’t have 5 priorities—even Steve Jobs and Bob Iger couldn’t
Leadership

You can’t have 5 priorities—even Steve Jobs and Bob Iger couldn’t

By
October 14, 2024
Priya Parrish
Finance

Why ESG assets are heading toward $50 trillion despite attacks on ‘woke capitalism’

By
October 10, 2024
America’s long overdue pivot on immigration: Regaining control of the borders—and boosting H-1B visas
Politics

America’s long overdue pivot on immigration: Regaining control of the borders—and boosting H-1B visas

By
October 10, 2024
Big Ag and Big Energy were once as unchallenged as Big Tech is today—but impressive Davids have shown how to compete with these Goliaths 
Retail

Big Ag and Big Energy were once as unchallenged as Big Tech is today—but impressive Davids have shown how to compete with these Goliaths 

By
October 8, 2024
Satya Nadella returned Microsoft to the top by showing humility as CEO. Here’s how it’s done
Success

Satya Nadella returned Microsoft to the top by showing humility as CEO. Here’s how it’s done

By
September 30, 2024

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