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The Building Blocks of Organizational Advantage | BCG
30 Jun 2025
The way companies handle ten key context elements such as purpose, leadership, and talent can be the deciding factor in transformation success.
AI at Work 2025: Momentum Builds, but Gaps Remain | BCG
26 Jun 2025
BCG experts reveal that frontline employees face a “silicon ceiling,” with only half using AI tools. What can leaders do to close the adoption gap?
In Disruptive Times, the Resilient Win | BCG
26 Jun 2025
How has the innovation landscape evolved? And how should leaders prepare for what comes next? Learn more about this year's Most Innovative Companies report.
How Insurers Can Win More Business from Retail Brokers | BCG
26 Jun 2025
Insurers need to understand the structural changes transforming brokerage and identify how to best maximize the value of the support they provide.
The Global Health System Calls for New Models | BCG
26 Jun 2025
Global health has improved dramatically. Discover how pullback by donor nations requires new thinking in how initiatives are funded, managed, and sustained.
It’s Europe’s Moment. Will CEOs Seize It? | BCG
25 Jun 2025
From calls to slash red tape to US policy shifts, momentum is moving in Europe’s favor. CEOs can take action now to jump-start growth and innovation.
New Revenue Streams Transforming Traditional Retail | BCG
25 Jun 2025
Traditional retailers are growing stronger by investing in data-driven platforms that boost customer experience and improve financial results. Learn more.
The $15 Trillion Opportunity in Leisure Travel | BCG
25 Jun 2025
Travel companies must attract local, regional, and global tourists while adapting to a fast-changing and diverse customer landscape. Learn more.
Green Growth Accelerator
25 Jun 2025
BCG’s Green Growth Accelerator helps clients build scalable green business models that deliver both climate impact and competitive advantage. Learn more here.
A €500 Billion Opportunity for Nondefense Firms | BCG
25 Jun 2025
The impending big boost in European defense spending will create major new markets for commercial firms across sectors. See who stands to gain—and how.
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
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The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
