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Can Watershed corner the market for carbon accounting?

The hottest thing in business depends on where you are. Bars in San Francisco tend to be abuzz with talk of enterprise software. Regulars at City of London pubs may discuss sustainable...

How to manage a balance-sheet in troubled times

Few teenagers dream of becoming a chief financial officer (cfo) when they grow up. If things are going well, ceos take the credit (and a fatter slice of the spoils) instead. cfos...

Will the PowerPoint load?

The meeting has been going on for almost an hour already, but the end is now in sight. The vast majority of attendees have already got the cursor lined up over the...

How to navigate workplace awkwardness

The meeting has been going on for almost an hour already, but the end is now in sight. The vast majority of attendees have already got the cursor lined up over the...

The man with a plan to fix Eskom

Andre de ruyter is used to having his weekends ruined. The ceo of Eskom, South Africa’s state-owned electric utility, was recently interrupted by a call telling him that locomotives carrying coal to...

Can Deutschland AG cope with the Russian gas shock?

Founded in 1763 by Frederick the Great, Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur still uses traditional methods to make its high-end porcelain. As in the past, kpm vases and cups are blasted with heat in furnaces:...

Watch Russia’s Rosneft to see the new direction of global petropolitics

Igor sechin is easy to caricature. The boss of Rosneft, Russia’s state-owned oil giant, is a burly man with close-cropped hair whose pastime is making sausages, reputedly out of deer he himself...

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Our new weekly newsletter, the Bottom Line, offers readers a panoramic sweep of the fast-changing world of tech and business. As technological shifts, geopolitics and inflation cause tumult and opportunities like never...

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