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US tech stocks—with their mouth-watering returns since March—have giving Indians such a FOMO that investors from the country are now flockin...

President-elect Joe Biden has officially announced several people he intends to take senior economic roles in his administration. That’s in...

Chess is cool again, thanks to the hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit. While chess retailers and app makers reap the rewards, other brands...

Arcadia Group, the retail empire of British tycoon Philip Green and parent company of fashion chain Topshop, is on the verge of crumbling. T...

In early October, the world passed a milestone in the clean energy transition that, until very recently, seemed unthinkable: Exxon was unsea...

At any point in the last few years, Nigeria’s naira has always had multiple exchange rates.As of Friday (Nov. 27), the parallel market rate...

China’s aggressive form of diplomacy is helping to create a new genre of patriotic political art—and one of the foremost proponents of Beiji...

When is the right time to assess a founder’s legacy? If we had assessed Mark Zuckerberg’s impact on the world five years ago, it would have...

A young Indian billionaire has put his might behind the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine for Covid-19. But his vaccine effort now appears to be em...

The Covid-19 lockdowns between March and June hurt the Indian economy pretty badly. But even after the lockdowns were lifted, things haven’t...

Black Lives Matter activism has jolted the skin lightener industry. In June, manufacturers of skin lighteners joined other corporations in v...

Analysts expect Cyber Monday 2020 to be the biggest online shopping day in US history, with anticipated sales of $10.8 billion to $12.7 bill...

A few years ago, a management professor I had met in Los Angeles was visiting New York and dropped by the office for coffee. “How are you?”...

In a year plagued by widespread layoffs, Amazon is bucking the trend. As of October, the company added 427,300 employees, increasing its wor...

The insanity of 2020 has, among other things, hammered home some basic truths about the art of management, starting with the fact that it wa...

Early in the pandemic, CEOs struggling to identify a comparable crisis frequently hearkened back to the 9/11 attacks, as a way of reminding...

After the police killing of George Floyd, the revived momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the many, many pledges made by manage...

Management is an evolving art, one that should respond to the times and to the shifting needs and norms of the workplace. But some strategie...

???? The Big IdeaThe changes to the food system brought on by Covid-19 have been disruptive, disorienting—and, very occasionally, delightful...

Satire has been a key feature of Kenyan political culture for decades now, humorously exposing and criticizing wrongs while also acting as a...

Long before the Nov. 18-19 protests in Uganda that left more than 50 people dead, opposition politicians, and local activists had warned abo...

Diego Armando Maradona is dead. This is at once unsurprising, since he had so spectacularly destroyed himself in his 60 years on earth, and...

The British government is preparing to ban the installation of new Huawei gear in UK telecommunications networks by 2022—sooner than expecte...

The top question for the global economy is how quickly people will be given an effective vaccine against Covid-19, reducing the need for job...

After his election, US president-elect Joe Biden promised his pick for treasury secretary would be well-received by Democrats of all stripes...