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    • Friday, 4 June, 2021
      The Weekend Essay
      Memories of Myanmar: a story of exile

      Philip Delves Broughton’s family fled military rule in the 1960s — but they could not escape the pull of their lost homeland

      Protesters demonstrate in front of a police blockade near the UN office in Yangon
    • Friday, 5 March, 2021
      North American prime property
      New York state of mind: optimism fuels the property market

      After the pandemic caused a market freeze in Manhattan, the vaccine rollout is helping to inject new energy

    • Thursday, 14 May, 2020
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Warhol: A Life as Art — American hustle

      Blake Gopnik’s life of the artist gets behind the glare of his fame to track the dance between art and commerce

      Andy Warhol.  photographed by Neil Winokur. 1982
    • Friday, 15 November, 2019
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Don’t Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech — doom looms over the Valley

      Rana Foroohar on the rise of Big Tech’s anti-heroes — and what can be done to limit their power

      BERLIN, GERMANY - JANUARY 22: Letters show the name Google on the stage in the auditorium before the festive opening of the Berlin representation of Google Germany on January 22, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. The official opening will take place tonight with Berlin Mayor Michael Muller. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)
    • Friday, 20 September, 2019
      WeWork
      For all the bluster and hubris, WeWork still has a future

      The company is not 2019’s pets.com, a harbinger of a tech bubble about to burst

      FILE PHOTO: Adam Neumann, CEO of WeWork, speaks to guests during the TechCrunch Disrupt event in Manhattan, in New York City, NY, U.S. May 15, 2017. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
    • Friday, 6 October, 2017
      Business education
      The MBA is a Grand Tour in the age of Airbnb

      Business schools are in danger of being left behind as technological change heats up

      DT1JYF 06.04.2011, USA, Harvard University, Bloomberg
    • Thursday, 8 June, 2017
      Life & Arts
      In praise of lunch

      News that Americans are lunching less is the sign of a culture and economy heading the wrong way

      Claude Monet 'The Lunch' (circa 1874)
    • Saturday, 11 March, 2017
      Technology sector
      The unvarnished truth is crucial to Silicon Valley’s success

      Human authenticity could save us from the robots

      Apple chief executive Steve Jobs unveils...San Francisco, UNITED STATES: Apple chief executive Steve Jobs unveils a new mobile phone that can also be used as a digital music player and a camera, a long-anticipated device dubbed an "iPhone." at the Macworld Conference 09 January, 2007 in San Francisco, California. The iPhone will be ultra-slim -- less than half-an-inch (1.3 centimeters) thick -- boasting a phone, Internet capability and an MP3 player as well as featuring a two megapixel digital camera, Jobs said. AFP Photo / Tony AVELAR (Photo credit should read TONY AVELAR/AFP/Getty Images)
    • Saturday, 4 March, 2017
      Television
      Television dramas feed off middle-class narcissistic pain

      Box set sagas of social climbing take over from the classics of midlife agony

      Big Little Lies Series 01 First Look Cast Name Display: Witherspoon, Reese, Kidman, Nicole, Woodley, Shailene Character Display: Madeline Mackenzie, Celeste Wright, Jane Chapman ©2017 Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved. HBO®
    • Saturday, 25 February, 2017
      US & Canadian companies
      Irrepressible Magic Johnson will bounce back at the Lakers

      The basketball star turned businessman is a great American success story

      Former NBA player Magic Johnson reacts as he talks with Eastern Conference LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers (23) during the first half of the NBA All-Star basketball game in New Orleans, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
    • Saturday, 11 February, 2017
      US politics & policy
      Ivanka’s frocks and the limits of Trump’s retail politics

      The president must toe the line on family interests, even if shoe sales fall

      CANOGA PARK, CA - FEBRUARY 17: Ivanka Trump attends the Launch of Her Spring 2011 Lifestyle Collection of Footwear at the Topanga Nordstrom on February 17, 2011 in Canoga Park, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
    • Saturday, 4 February, 2017
      Managing yourself
      How Warren Buffett learnt to win friends and influence people

      The Carnegie method had a profound effect on the US investor early on in his career

      Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., arrives on stage during an event with Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, not pictured, at the Sokol Auditorium in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. Buffet said at the rally that he was supporting Clinton's bid for president because they share a commitment to help the less affluent. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Warren Buffett
    • Saturday, 28 January, 2017
      Tax
      America business is the master, not victim, of globalisation

      If businesses saw more value in investing in US workers, they could have done so

      FLAT ROCK, MI - AUGUST 20: 2015 Ford Mustangs go through assembly at the Ford Flat Rock Assembly Plant August 20, 2015 in Flat Rock, Michigan. Ford is debuting its new Mustang Shelby GT 350 and 350R models. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
    • Saturday, 21 January, 2017
      US trade
      Wilbur Ross brings art of restructuring to Team Trump

      He can dive into an industrial dung heap and emerge with a fistful of dollars

      BEDMINSTER TOWNSHIP, NJ - NOVEMBER 20: (L to R) President-elect Donald Trump and investor Wilbur Ross pose for a photo following their meeting at Trump International Golf Club, November 20, 2016 in Bedminster Township, New Jersey. Trump and his transition team are in the process of filling cabinet and other high level positions for the new administration. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
    • Saturday, 7 January, 2017
      US trade
      Corporate America wonders which Donald Trump to believe   

      The president-elect is sending mixed signals to businesses

      Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump signs autographs at the end of a campaign rally in Eugene, Oregon, U.S., May 6, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart  - RTX2D75E
    • Saturday, 31 December, 2016
      US politics & policy
      What Donald Trump’s fondness for Palm Beach reveals

      The US president-elect has conquered this redoubt in Florida of old money

      The Mar-a-Lago resort owned by President-elect Donald Trump is pictured, Monday, Nov. 21, 2016, in Palm Beach, Fla. When Trump arrives at Mar-a-Lago as president, it won't be the first time a chief executive used Palm Beach as his vacation lair-John Kennedy's family estate, known during his term as the Winter White House, is seven miles north at the other end of Ocean Drive. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
    • Saturday, 24 December, 2016
      UK companies
      A cannily branded tonic for the dismal spirit world

      Sipsmith’s success is a fine example of the ‘never get enough’ principle

      LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 07:  Head distiller Oliver Kitson pours gin from a storage bottle at the Sipmsith gin distillery on April 7, 2016 in London, England. The Sipsmith microdistillery is the first copper-pot distillery to open within London's city limits in nearly two centuries and has spearheaded a revival in London gin and it now supplies to outlets throughout the capital.  (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
    • Saturday, 17 December, 2016
      Opinion
      Silicon Valley is philosophical over Donald Trump’s victory

      Rediscovered Stoicism is the new Zen, tailor-made for an age of change

      DECEMBER 14: President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence meet with technology executives at Trump Tower, December 14, 2016 in New York City.
    • Saturday, 10 December, 2016
      Retail sector
      Millennials lead the charge to find real life . . . and slow tech

      Young people are tiring of too much disruption, writes Philip Delves Broughton

      Amazon Go
    • Saturday, 3 December, 2016
      Law
      Cannabis entrepreneurs rush to find a pot of gold

      Legalisation in the US is creating commercial opportunities

      LONDON- MAY 15: A girl smokes a joint in Russell Square as supporters take part in the annual global cannabis campaign with marches in over 150 cities worldwide May 15, 2005, London, England. Campaigners have stated the event taking place soon after the general election is the largest 'united front' against the prohibition of cannabis ever assembled in Britain. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
    • Saturday, 26 November, 2016
      US & Canadian companies
      Big oil collides with a family fortune

      The Rockefellers turn on the source of their wealth

      circa 1930: American oil magnate and philanthropist, John Davidson Rockefeller (1839 - 1937) at work in his study. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
    • Saturday, 19 November, 2016
      US presidential election
      Mark Zuckerberg’s flawed approach to fixing his fake news problem

      His evasions smack of someone fearful of unpicking his own business model

      Web Summit's attendees gather in front of the Facebook stand during the Web Summit at Parque das Nacoes, in Lisbon on November 9, 2016.
									Europe's largest tech event Web Summit will be held at Parque das Nacoes in Lisbon from November 7 to 10, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRAPATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP/Getty Images
    • Saturday, 12 November, 2016
      US presidential election
      Trump v Clinton: Why the pollsters seemed to get it wrong

      Making election predictions was easier before big data, when everyone had a landline

      90-year-old Chinese American Cy Yen Liu, center, checks her ballot as she waits behind ballot-filling booths at a polling station in Flushing section of the Queens borough of New York, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. Liu, originally from Shanghai, China, immigrated to the United States 50 years ago. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
    • Friday, 4 November, 2016
      Recruitment
      The Cohen model of making billions loses its appeal

      In the simplest terms, millennials stand to earn more money in Silicon Valley

      Day Two Of The World Economic Forum 2012...Steven "Steve" Cohen, chairman and chief executive officer of SAC Captial Advisors LP, speaks to the media at the Congress Center during day two of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. The 42nd annual meeting of the World Economic Forum will be attended by about 2,600 political, business and financial leaders at the five-day conference. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
    • Saturday, 22 October, 2016
      Media
      Spinal Tap star turns it up to 11 in fight for royalties

      The artist’s law suit comes at a time of deepening suspicion of platform owners

      Derek Smalls (played by Harry Shearer) of Spinal Tap performs during the Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium in London, in a July 7, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Stephen Hird/Files
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