Business
Will she, won't she?
Having bought Gillette and focused on big brands, the world's largest consumer-goods company is betting that scale is the way to successAug 9th 2007
The road to recovery
Profits at General Motors and Ford are a hopeful sign, but Detroit still looks sicklyAug 9th 2007
Collared
A conviction for backdating options may be the first of manyAug 9th 2007
Unsticking ICI
Akzo Nobel and Henkel move to buy ICI and divide the spoilsAug 9th 2007
The Hungarian defence
An oil company develops an imaginative takeover defenceAug 9th 2007
Not so EASSy
A plan to run a submarine cable down Africa's east coast runs into difficultyAug 9th 2007
Gently does it
Wal-Mart tiptoes into India with the launch of a wholesale operationAug 9th 2007
Articles from previous editions
Lightly carbonated
European companies are not yet taking full advantage of carbon marketsAug 2nd 2007
Rupert gets his trophy
Rupert Murdoch has won Dow Jones, demonstrating his dealmaking prowessAug 2nd 2007
Summer of discontent
Looming strikes and local politics dog a controversial privatisationAug 2nd 2007
Dirty dealing
Despite a clampdown, corruption remains a formidable problemAug 2nd 2007
Food, fashion and faith
Companies are starting to reach out to Muslim consumers in the WestAug 2nd 2007
You'd be a loonie not to
The strong Canadian dollar means bargain prices south of the borderAug 2nd 2007
The nimble sumo
Jean-Pierre Garnier of GlaxoSmithKline defends the pharmaceutical industry as he overhauls his own drugs firmAug 2nd 2007
Five years under the thumb
Corporate America is learning how to live with the tough regulations introduced after the collapse of Enron Jul 26th 2007
External affairs
Old assumptions are being challenged as the outsourcing industry matures Jul 26th 2007
Questioning the Middle Kingdom
As Japanese firms move into China, some are having second thoughtsJul 26th 2007
Red flag
Businesses in China seem not to have noticed that they face tough new rulesJul 26th 2007
The flavour of cool
Can e-mail newsletters recommending cultural events in the world's big cities maintain their credibility as they grow?Jul 26th 2007
Tested mettle
Anil Agarwal has built a mining and metals giant in less than a decade Jul 26th 2007
- A special report on air travel
Fear of flying
Air travel is often nasty, brutish, long and unprofitable. But it need not be like that, says Paul Markillie
- Face value
To hell and back
Howard Lutnick rebuilt Cantor Fitzgerald against the odds. But he will struggle to reconquer his industryAug 9th 2007
Articles from previous editions, continued...
Accounting for good people
Surprising as it might seem, the Big Four accountancy firms have lots to teach other companies about managing talented peopleJul 19th 2007
Looming difficulties
Can Africa's clothing industry survive Asian competition?Jul 19th 2007
Third time lucky
After a long campaign Imperial Tobacco finally pockets AltadisJul 19th 2007
Down to earth with a bump
The Italian government's plan to sell its stake in Alitalia fails to take offJul 19th 2007
Green shoots
A new venture hopes to promote clean-technology investment in ChinaJul 19th 2007
The third screen
Having spread to computers, television is starting to reach mobile phonesJul 19th 2007
Book value
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook is being touted as the new Steve Jobs, and his company as the next GoogleJul 19th 2007
Award
Our correspondent in Johannesburg has won an award for business reportingJul 19th 2007
Jam today
Worries about short-termism grip America's business elite—wrongly, perhapsJul 12th 2007
Land of the rising sums
Japanese firms are wary of changes of ownership, but more are on the wayJul 12th 2007
Why Fiat is cool again
The launch of the Fiat 500 crowns the Italian carmaker's comeback. But will it last?Jul 12th 2007
Getting better?
President Sarkozy's supposedly liberal tendencies are put to the testJul 12th 2007
Know your subject
Topic-specific search-engines hope to challenge Google, at least in some areasJul 12th 2007
The final frontier
How digital technology is changing the way cinemas workJul 12th 2007
Looking more convincing
True believers reckon 3-D is the next big thing. They might be right this timeJul 12th 2007
Leader of the swarm
Christopher Hohn, like his hedge fund, is powerful, feared—and generousJul 12th 2007
- A special report on business and climate change
Cleaning up
Business is getting down to cutting carbon, but needs more incentives to make much difference to climate change, argues Emma Duncan
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