Tag: Opinion
Broken workflows—and how to fix them
Very premature babies need lots of immediate medical attention. Which is why one neo-natal team in an American...
Will the trade war capsize shipbuilders?
ALL QUIET on the western waterfront. And the eastern one, too. Across littoral America, stevedores are twiddling their...
Who needs Accenture in the age of AI?
WHO IS consulting good for? Consultants, obviously. Chief executives, who can blame failure on bad outside advice and...
A CEO’s summer guide to protecting profits
MID-JULY is the time to bare it all. On the beach, this involves swimwear that, au fait with...
Trump’s sovereign-wealth fund won’t make America richer
With $29trn in debt and a widening fiscal deficit, America hardly seems like a candidate for a sovereign-wealth fund....
Economists are as confused as Trump about taxing the rich
IF YOU want to put a policymaker on the spot, ask them what the top rate of income tax...
Shareholders face a big new problem: currency risk
Imagine someone who found secondary-school maths difficult being grilled about logarithms. That is how a lot of equity investors...
India’s Licence Raj offers America important lessons
Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, and Donald Trump, America’s president, do not share many similarities. Nehru was an...
McDonald’s secret sauce—plus a pickle or two
THE success of the Golden Arches rests on three simple, sturdy foundations: a menu of reliably decent grub,...