Set amid a backdrop of lush rolling hills and marshy lakes, Ningde is an unassuming company town on the south-eastern coast of China, lined with low-rise buildings and apartment blocks. One structure...
For decades America’s soft power put the wind in the sails of its companies as they ventured abroad. When the Berlin Wall fell, Coca-Cola sent lorries emblazoned with its logo into East...
For decades America’s soft power put the wind in the sails of its companies as they ventured abroad. When the Berlin Wall fell, Coca-Cola sent lorries emblazoned with its logo into East...
People who enjoy public speaking are luckier than they realise. A much-publicised survey from the 1970s claimed that Americans feared it more than death. In 2012, Karen Dwyer and Marlina Davidson of...
BEING SAM ALTMAN is a glamorous gig. Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 the boss of its creator, OpenAI, has turned into a global business superstar. He is the darling...
MOST COMPANIES like to shout about their new products. Not Nvidia, it seems. On May 19th the chip-design firm will release the GeForce RTX 5060, its newest mass-market graphics card for video...
For America’s politicians, there are few easier bogeymen to rail against than pharma bosses. Only a fifth of the country has a positive opinion of the industry, according to Gallup, a pollster—meaning...
If innovation has an iconography, it involves a genius, a breakthrough and a dash of serendipity. Alexander Fleming notices mould growing on a plate of bacteria and discovers penicillin. John Snow produces...
