In the summer of 2022, as she began her work recruiting the class of 2025 at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, Shelly Heinrich was optimistic. The previous cycle had been ...

For all its contributions to environmental causes, outdoor clothing brand Patagonia Inc. can’t escape its own extractiveness. Every parka it produces is a drain on the planet’s resources. Each ...

Finance International is an additional Finance product and delivers international news in English from various sources (Bloomberg, Project Syndicate). In September, Volkswagen plans to unveil the ...

Finance International is an additional Finance product and delivers international news in English from various sources (Bloomberg, Project Syndicate).

China announced that it will start handing out childcare subsidies across the nation, in its latest push to boost birthrates after a worrying drop in recent years. The government will spend 3,600 yuan ...

In the early 1990s, every self-respecting American yuppie and retired suburban couple bought an electric bread maker, with sales hitting four million units. But the fad soon faded as these amateur ...

Why have some countries grown rich and others not? The three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences – Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson – offer a simple answer: ...

While planning a nine-day trip to Japan with her family earlier this spring, Lindsey Scrase was anxious to avoid the stress of work piling up in her absence. For most of her career, getting away has ...

You may not have grown up playing with an Erector Set, but perhaps you had another building kit where, with patience and perhaps some parental assistance, you could bolt plastic rods together into ...

Germany is preparing to launch a €100 billion ($116 billion) investment fund to help secure strategic sectors such as defense, energy and critical raw materials. Dubbed Deutschlandfonds — or Germany ...

Ever since taking on Netflix Inc. at its own game, old Hollywood has struggled to turn a profit in streaming, with the likes of Disney+, Peacock and Paramount+ losing billions of dollars each year, ...

Finance International is an additional Finance product and delivers international news in English from various sources (Bloomberg, Project Syndicate). Rogers says he doesn’t believe Prince’s ownership ...