Plus other findings about hedonistic pleasure, insider trading, how organisations should recentralise and more.

Brain imaging and consumer surveys predict different stages of the purchase journey – a distinction that can make or break a product launch.

Strong legal protection for secret recipes and other innovations can spur companies to deploy discoveries and even share inventions.

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Many executives talk about AI as if it’s a force that will arrive and transform the business on its own. In the philosopher Daniel Dennett’s ...

As US-China tensions reshape global capital flows, a consequential reorientation is underway in the Middle East. Gulf sovereign wealth funds, which control over US$4 trillion in assets, are deepening ...

The effectiveness of basing healthcare reimbursement policies on health outcomes lies in the ability to align diverse incentives. That’s why contract design matters.

Risky investments and a lack of regulatory oversight contributed to the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. The beleaguered bank's disintegration startled us all. But how will the collapse affect tech ...

This extraordinary year has brought to the fore an unprecedented number of wicked problems – like Covid-19 or systemic racism. Global warming, developing over decades, arguably is the biggest one.

In early 2025, Chinese company DeepSeek released a new open-source LLM (large language model) that sent the tech world – and the stock market – into a frenzy. DeepSeek-R1 does not only perform on a ...

Companies sometimes rename themselves following mergers or corporate restructurings. For example, in 1996 Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz merged to form Novartis. At other times, a renaming serves to insulate a ...