Business Innovation

For Johanna Mercier, Gilead Sciences’ chief commercial and corporate affairs officer, leadership starts with a clear accounting of what sustains performance across a global role. In a job that rarely conforms to fixed hours, she focuses on her energy:...

Nevin Burmeister first downloaded Kalshi on July 8, just two days after his 18th birthday. In his home state of Indiana, the minimum age for sports betting is 21. But Burmeister could legally wager on sports on Kalshi starting...

The warning signs were there two decades ago—long before ChatGPT, long before anyone worried about a robot taking their job. Around 2005, something quietly shifted in the American labor market. College degrees kept multiplying. Good jobs did not.“This is...

The artificial intelligence debate has a framing problem, and one of America’s most prominent economists has an idea about how to fix it.“The first thing that people think about when they think about reducing work is unemployment,” Alex Tabarrok...

As a business founded in 1939, HP is no stranger to wartime turbulence and geopolitical volatility. But the recent conflicts and their resulting economic uncertainty pose challenges for every business. In this first installment of a new series, we check in with Neil...

The average American manager now oversees 12 direct reports, and the data suggest AI is both the cause and the justification for this quiet but seismic shift in how the U.S. workplace is organized. It is one of the...

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.As we break for Easter, real life increasingly feels like fiction. Who needs conspiracy theories, when America’s president acts as if...

Imagine someone upstream in your company just deployed an AI agent. Their throughput doubles overnight. Work starts flying to you at twice the speed. But you’re still in Excel. You still don’t have access to the company’s data lake....

Good morning. AI is already making workers more productive, but the financial results haven’t yet caught up.“Artificial Intelligence, Productivity, and the Workforce: Evidence from Corporate Executives” is a new working paper by researchers at Duke University’s Fuqua School of...

There was a simple narrative about Rishi Sunak when he was defeated in the U.K. general election of 2024. The Stanford MBA graduate and former Goldman Sachs analyst would quit Parliament, leave the U.K. and hot-foot it to California for lucrative roles towards...