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Tech Layoffs Rattle B-School Grads

Contraction in the industry could mean less recruiting of MBAs

So Many Jobs, So Few Workers

○ In Ohio, America’s push to construct a slew of chip plants is running headlong into a labor shortage

The Risk Wall Street Doesn't Want to Think About

○ The consequences of not raising the debt ceiling are so awful that Congress is sure to do it in time—right?

Prying Open the Insurance Black Box

Rule changes give companies tools to control health spending-and a legal responsibility

The Trouble With Quitting China

○ The country has specialized machinery and skilled workers difficult to find elsewhere

Defaults Are Coming to a Downtown Near You

Facing rising interest rates and empty buildings, even wealthy landlords are skipping payments on office space

Who's Hungry for Some Lab-grown Meat?

Leading scientists agree that cell-cultured meat products won’t give you cancer, but the industry doesn’t have the decades of data to prove it, so it’s trying to avoid the question instead by Joe Fassler

The Deep End Of Decadence

A suite can cost as much as $100,000 a night at Dubai’s Atlantis the Royal, but don’t you dare just stay in your room.

WHERE WOULD YOU BUILD THE ROAD?

WHY ALASKA SHOULD DEFINITELY, PROBABLY, BUT MAYBE NOT BUILD A 211-MILE HIGHWAY ACROSS ITS UNTRAMMELED INTERIOR

The Russian Hack Everyone Is Finally Talking About

As Putin began his invasion of Ukraine, a network used throughout Europe—and by the Ukrainian military—faced an unprecedented cyberattack that served as an industrywide wake-up call

The Fugee, the Fugitive and the FBI

How rapper Pras Michél got entangled in one of the century's great financial scandals

Corporate Japan Takes a Pro-LGBTQ Stance

Companies embrace equality policies in a country where same-sex marriage is illegal

France's #MeToo Moment

An ad copywriter's Instagram feed has spurred French companies to finally move beyond the Mad Men era

What's Keeping Inflation Sticky

○ Costs of moving goods by sea and by land aren’t coming down as fast as might be expected

Speak Softly And Carry a Big Bag of Cash

○ From chips to TikTok, Gina Raimondo is writing her own China doctrine

Who Wants to Run a Humbler PayPal?

○ The payments giant has shed $279 billion in market value and is hunting for a new CEO

The Cost of the Blank-Check Boom

○ The rush to take companies public with SPACs ends with bankruptcies and fire sales

Big Business Piles on Lina Khan

○ The FTC chair has become the main focus of groups working against the Biden administration’s efforts to revive antitrust policy

Microsoft Gaming Beyond the Xbox

○ Its Game Pass subscription service expands into dozens of new countries

A Slow Rebound In Macau

● As Beijing cracks down on vice, the gambling hub is bracing for a future with fewer high rollers

The Sun Sets On Hollywood Dealmakers

○ Sales of small film and TV studios have cooled as the industry braces for a slowdown

Female Execs Step Back

○ Departures of burned-out Gen X managers is shrinking the pipeline that leads women to C-suite jobs

Air India Wants to Be The Next Emirates

New owner Tata Group is likely spending $60 billion on jets to expand the carrier globally

Culture Wars Are Coming for ChatGPT

Accusations of anti-conservative bias echo the long-running feud over social media

A New American Migration

Black women at midlife are seeking better worlds abroad

A Rolls-Royce In Its Purest Form

With its first electric car, the Spectre coupe, Rolls ditches its famous V-12 engine and finds out who it really is.

Bed Bath & Beyond Hope

The near-bankrupt retailer was hit by Covid, but it has plenty of its own missteps to blame

Adani, Downsized

The billionaire symbol of India’s growth is a lot less rich after a short seller’s attack

A Social Media Case Tests The High Court's Tech Chops

Justices aren’t known for their digital savvy, but they have their ways of getting up to speed

In the US, the Pandemic Was a Time for Sweets

In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, sugar demand plummeted as homebound consumers bought fewer soft drinks and restaurant desserts. Commodities trader Czarnikow Group Ltd. projected the first fall in global sugar consumption in 40 years and a slow recovery.