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How Medtech Leaders Rev Up Their Innovation Engines | BCG
16 Oct 2025
After years of strong returns, medtech TSR performance has slowed. Leading firms are regaining momentum by refining their innovation platforms and enablers.
Closing the Menopause Care Gap in Women’s Health | BCG
16 Oct 2025
Better care for women experiencing hormonal changes at midlife could lead to an eightfold increase in the menopause treatment market by 2030. Discover more.
How Quantum Computing Will Upend Cybersecurity | BCG
16 Oct 2025
As quantum computers advance, today’s cryptographic standards may become vulnerable. Companies should begin transitioning to post-quantum security now.
CEO Tenures Shrinking: What That Means for Business | BCG
16 Oct 2025
CEOs face mounting pressure to prove value fast, while rapid leadership shifts increase demands on senior execs, boards, and HR leaders. Learn more.
Driving Growth in Corporate and Investment Banking | BCG
14 Oct 2025
Scaling technology, fracturing geopolitics, and shifting capital are reshaping corporate and investment banking. Discover more in BCG's annual report.
Electric and Gas: Energizing Digital Transformation | BCG
14 Oct 2025
Utilities are pouring money into tech upgrades, yet results vary. A focused strategy across three key areas can unlock the true value of this investment.
How AI Agents Will Transform B2B Sales | BCG
14 Oct 2025
By combining the strengths of humans and AI, companies can reimagine how they sell, making the process faster, smarter, more empathic, and data driven.
Bridging Africa’s Infrastructure Execution Gap | BCG
13 Oct 2025
Africa’s growth depends on turning bold infrastructure visions into action. This BCG report reveals how execution, private partnership, and coordination can unlock transformative continental progress.
Next for Decarbonization of the Maritime Industry | BCG
13 Oct 2025
New emissions rules will redefine competition, driving transformation across shipping, low-carbon fuel innovation, and investment landscapes.
How Agentic AI is Transforming Enterprise Platforms | BCG
13 Oct 2025
Agentic AI is redefining how businesses operate, installing intelligent virtual assistants that can analyze data and make decisions without human intervention.
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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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Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
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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.
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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
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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.
