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Driving a Customer-Centric EV Strategy at Ford
22 Jul 2025
A top motor company hit record EV sales by teaming with BCG to craft a customer-focused strategy that tackled range and charging anxiety. Learn more.
Tariffs Are Only the Tip of the Trade Iceberg | BCG
22 Jul 2025
Many other trade-related actions tend to have significantly more serious consequences, potentially including the complete closure of entire markets.
Where Will Tomorrow’s AI Geniuses Go? | BCG
22 Jul 2025
U.S. policy changes may shift the AI landscape, but in the long run, it's talent, not tariffs, that will shape the industry's future. Learn more.
Cost and Resilience: The New Supply Chain Challenge | BCG
18 Jul 2025
Business once prioritized low costs, then resilience at any cost. Now, in a complex world, companies need strategies that deliver both effectively.
How to Navigate Turbulence in Cyclical Sectors | BCG
17 Jul 2025
Executives can ensure resilient value creation by applying long-term thinking to decision-making, debt management, and capital allocation. Learn more.
Preparing for the Next Wave of Petrochemical Consolidation
16 Jul 2025
As supply-demand imbalances and competition escalate, leading petrochemical companies are increasingly using M&As to improve performance and build resilience.
Zero-Based Solutions to Five People Cost Challenges | BCG
16 Jul 2025
CEOs must eliminate inefficiencies in operations while preserving employee morale, retaining key talent, and continuing to support business growth.
Being the CEO: Pietro Satriano’s Three-Act Journey | BCG
16 Jul 2025
From a successful transformation and IPO, to keeping US Foods afloat during the pandemic, Satriano shares his formula for navigating leadership challenges.
Pietro Satriano’s Three-Act Journey at US Foods
16 Jul 2025
From a successful transformation and IPO, to keeping US Foods afloat during the pandemic, Satriano shares his formula for navigating leadership challenges.
Joint Ventures
16 Jul 2025
Nonequity alliances require deliberate, thoughtful frameworks to align partner objectives, define shared value creation, and manage decision-making. Learn more.
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
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?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
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.
