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What AI Agents Can Do
02 May 2025
This short video unpacks the core concept of AI agents—offering a strategic lens on emerging autonomous systems in business and tech. Watch now.

The Secret to High-Performing Strategy Teams | BCG
02 May 2025
Most strategy teams underdeliver. Top performers, however, stand out by sticking with a singular mandate and mastering collaboration. Keep reading to learn more.

2025 Value Creators: Next After a Decade of Growth | BCG
02 May 2025
Discover which industries and regions performed best last year and explore the key drivers of success in today’s volatile economic environment.

How AI Can Be the New All-Star on Your Team | BCG
02 May 2025
Learn more about a powerful new tool in AI that can help you achieve your most important business objectives while driving innovation, efficiency, and growth.

A Moment for Canada to Reset Its Economy | BCG
02 May 2025
Canada’s new government is taking shape amid major economic uncertainty, particularly concerning its trade relationships. Read on to learn more.

Cost Control Now Rivals Growth as the Top Priority | BCG
02 May 2025
In the face of recent widespread economic uncertainty, IT leaders are prioritizing controlling costs—and doubling down on AI investments. Learn more.

Building Resilience in Agrifood Supply Chains | BCG
02 May 2025
As they face unprecedented volatility in global agrifood supply chains, decision makers can act today to build long-term resilience and competitive advantage.

The Vitality Code: Mastering Growth Leadership | BCG
30 Apr 2025
BCG experts define corporate vitality as a measure of a company's long-term growth potential. Discover how leading firms consistently outperform peers.

Changing Tariff Dynamics and Dealmaking | BCG
30 Apr 2025
BCG experts explore how the fast-evolving tariff landscape is changing dealmaking and what CEOs can do to prepare. Keep reading to learn more.

Measuring Total Societal Impact of the A&D Sector | BCG
30 Apr 2025
The A&D sector faces rising scrutiny. Discover how BCG’s total societal impact assessment examines its full societal, economic, and environmental impact.
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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
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,

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.

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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.