President Donald Trump’s rocky start should come as no surprise. He has no experience in government or large organizations — his company is a small family office that employs a few dozen people. Before finding success through television and licensing deals, his career was defined by a series of failures and bankruptcies. The image he has cultivated for himself …

  As crackdown on illegal immigrants began, the phone at an organization in Austin that runs a deportation hotline is always ringing. The centre received more than 1,000 calls in three days by fearful immigrants who wanted information about the raids. They are a worried lot. Those who saw a friend or family was taken are scared by the raids. …

  About a decade ago, EBay Inc. made a legendary retreat from the Chinese auction business in the face of growing local competition. It was a defeat so humiliating that it became a business school case study. Since then, however, the Chinese e-commerce market has changed drastically — and so has EBay. As the company makes its return to the …