Business Innovation

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...

In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady profiles Centene CEO Sarah London.The big leadership story: CFOs plan AI-related layoffs—but not as many as you might think.The markets: Up globally on reports of an Iran breakthroughPlus: All the news and...

The days of grinding at your desk from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. are officially numbered. Imagine clocking off an hour earlier every single day and still taking home the same salary. Billionaire entrepreneur and former Shark Tank star...

It all began with an anonymous Twitter handle named “Ivan the K.” The self-appointed “Lead Independent Director of Finance Twitter” had a dark theory in the depths of the pandemic. In 2020, they asked the universe, “Why is no...

For much of the last three decades, Europe has played a back-footed role in the digital economy: influential in regulation, strong in research, but rarely the place where globally dominant technology companies are built. The internet era created extraordinary...

Generative AI stands apart from previous technological shifts: it’s fundamentally reinventing how businesses operate at breathtaking speed. What took farming mechanization decades—reducing agricultural workers from one-third of the U.S. workforce to 1%—AI is accomplishing in months.  Yet despite billions in investment, most organizations still struggle to move from pilot to...

As professor Joseph Stiglitz sees it, AI is not just another technology wave—it’s a force that can erode jobs and hardwire a new era of inequality. That is, unless governments and institutions deliberately push it in a different direction. AI...