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Lessons from frugal businesses minting money in India

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.For foreign investors, India is a puzzle. On the plus side, it is...

The mood at Davos in the desert is one of anxiety

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.IN SOME ways, big business pow-wows are all alike. Talking heads make over-the-top...

Why China is restricting exports of graphite

THE CHINESE government was caught off-guard in October last year when America hit it with tough export controls on high-powered semiconductors. Communist leaders in Beijing took months to formulate a firm response....

The world wants to regulate AI, but does not quite know how

The venue will be picturesque: a 19th-century pile north of London that during the second world war was home to Alan Turing, his code-breaking crew and the first programmable digital computer. The...

Pity the modern manager—burnt-out, distracted and overloaded

MANAGERS DO NOT make for obvious objects of compassion. It is hard to feel sorry for the bossy office lead, let alone the big-shot chief executive, who pockets millions of dollars a...

Are leaders sexier than managers?

If you were asked to imagine a manager, you might well conjure up someone comically boring, desk-bound and monotonal. Now do the same for a leader. You may well be picturing someone...

How big is the role of luck in career success?

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Luck plays a big and often unacknowledged part in career success, starting in...

Meet India’s mega-wealthy

Indian plutocracy can seem set in stone. The top two spots in the annual rich list compiled by Hurun, which tracks such things, invariably go to the Ambani and Adani clans. This...

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