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Navigating the Consumer Reset: Five Imperatives for the Next Decade | BCG
08 Nov 2025
After a global slowdown, Australia’s consumer sector faces a rare opportunity. The next 12 months will define who leads the decade ahead.
From Campaigns to Business Value: AI in Marketing | BCG
08 Nov 2025
BCG experts explore how AI is transforming marketing and empowering CMOs to reinvent their entire operating model. Keep reading to learn more.
Climate Change May Trigger Financial Tipping Points | BCG
08 Nov 2025
Leaders who anticipate, innovate, and collaborate can protect their businesses from climate disruption while unlocking new opportunities for growth.
Managing the Dynamics of Digital Platform Lock-In | BCG
08 Nov 2025
Platform lock-in is the inevitable cost of operating in a platform-dominated IT landscape, but achieving strategic ambitions requires vigilant oversight.
How Socioeconomic Status Shapes Workplace Success | BCG
08 Nov 2025
Employees from disadvantaged backgrounds feel the least belonging at work. Closing this gap builds resilience, unlocks talent, and drives inclusion.
The Growing Protection Gap in European Insurance | BCG
08 Nov 2025
European insurers must accelerate digital innovation and offer holistic solutions to better meet evolving financial needs and lifestyle preferences. Learn more.
The AI-First Automotive Company: Reinventing the Customer Experience
31 Oct 2025
Automakers are leveraging AI to transform their entire value chain, with the most immediate gains expected in marketing and sales. Learn more now.
Powering More with Less: How Energy Networks Can Transform Their Productivity
30 Oct 2025
Three imperatives—doing the right work, using the right resources, and doing the work right—hold the key to better productivity for grid companies.
At Financial Institutions, Risk Should Be Everybody’s Business
30 Oct 2025
BCG experts explain how risk in banking is evolving—driven by AI, cyber, geopolitics, and regulation—and why resilience must be built enterprise-wide.
How Gen Z and Gen Alpha Are Rewiring the Fashion Industry
29 Oct 2025
Women’s Wear Daily and BCG explored what drives young consumers today, and how top fashion brands are evolving to capture Fashion’s Next Gen.
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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.
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.
