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Energy CFOs Must Power the Green Transition | BCG
28 Mar 2025
To navigate the energy transition successfully, leaders must enhance the finance function’s performance across several critical areas. Learn more now.

You Won’t Get GenAI Right if Human Oversight is Wrong | BCG
27 Mar 2025
Generative AI poses risks, and relying on human review isn’t as simple as it seems. Effective oversight must be intentionally designed, not just assigned.

Sustainable Aviation Fuels Need a Faster Takeoff | BCG
27 Mar 2025
New fuels can decarbonize the commercial aviation industry, but stakeholders will need to move faster to achieve 2030 targets. Learn more here.

Steering US Auto Dealers Toward a Profitable Future | BCG
26 Mar 2025
Market demands have made data, digital tools, and AI vital for staying competitive, while better services are key to driving long-term revenue growth.

What’s Holding Back Nuclear in the West? | BCG
26 Mar 2025
Why can’t the West build nuclear plants on time and on budget? Explore key challenges and what’s needed to unlock the full potential of nuclear energy.

Imagine This…When Indian Consumers Shape Global Trends
21 Mar 2025
By 2035, India’s rising consumer class could be setting trends worldwide. BCG’s Kanika Sanghi imagines how this shift could change the global economy.

Imagine This…When Traditional Advertising Is Dead
20 Mar 2025
As media evolves, companies must rethink marketing and consumer relations. BCG’s Neal Zuckerman envisions every business having a chief content officer.

The Goulburn-Murray Regional Prosperity Plan and What It Means for First Nations Parity | BCG
20 Mar 2025
BCG sat down with the co-chairs of the Prosperity Plan, Paul Briggs and Dave McKenzie, to understand the Plan’s vision and opportunities, as well as the implementation challenges it faces.

A Top Eye Health Company on Innovation & Customer Centricity | BCG
19 Mar 2025
The CEO of an eye health company shares his leadership approach and how the company thrives in a fast-paced, innovation-driven industry. Learn more.

Automakers Race Toward Cost Competitiveness | BCG
19 Mar 2025
To stay competitive within a perfect storm of challenges threatening profitability, traditional automakers must rethink how their manufacturing plants operate.
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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.

How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.

Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.