Some time last year I had a revealing conversation with a director of a European bank about succession planning for the chief executive officer job. The board member let slip that the real reason a woman might be on the candidate list was because the company simply had to be seen ticking that box. The director quickly tried to correct ...

On the internet, as a friend recently reminded me, everything looks permanent until it isn’t. As technology evolves, the most profound and destabilising change is likely to be the transition from centralised internet services to decentralised ones. Centralised services typically are run by companies or institutions, such as Facebook, Twitter or Amazon. There is a command structure and a boss, ...

A global shortage of semiconductor chips is ravaging supply chains and hasn’t shown signs of abating. Don’t be surprised if it lasts another year. Carmakers from Ford Motor Co to General Motors Co and Toyota Motor Corp have cut production because of it. Several continue to idle assembly lines across the world. US senators are now urging the White House ...