How to manage politics in the workplace Polarisation affects bosses as well as employees

Can Google or Huawei stymie Apple’s march towards $4trn? The contest for global smartphone dominance gets interesting

Why Microsoft Excel won’t die The business world’s favourite software program enters its 40th year

Can artificial intelligence rescue customer service? The adoption of AI is surging in call centres

Pity the superstar fashion designer Creative directors are coming and going faster than the latest trends

Poland’s stockmarket has a hot new entrant The IPO of Zabka could help revive Warsaw’s beleaguered bourse

The horrors of the reply-all email thread Easy to start, impossible to stop

What if carmaking went the way of consumer electronics? The Foxconnification of electric vehicles

BHP and Rio Tinto are heading in different directions The strategies of the world’s two most valuable miners are diverging

America’s profit machine is under threat Look beyond a bullish earnings season and risks loom

China’s robotaxis are racing ahead of Tesla’s Baidu is leaving Western carmakers in the dust

Donald Trump’s promise of a golden age for oil is fanciful There is not much he could do to boost fossil fuels—or rein in clean energy

Why is Mark Zuckerberg giving away Meta’s crown jewels? Augustus Caesar goes on the open-source warpath

Tech bros love J.D. Vance. Many CEOs are scared stiff Donald Trump’s running-mate has a deep-rooted resentment of big business

China is the West’s corporate R&D lab. Can it remain so? Foreign firms want Chinese boffins. America and China may have other plans

Can Burberry put its chequered past behind it? The British label’s new boss has his work cut out

Google wants a piece of Microsoft’s cyber-security business A $23bn acquisition of Wiz, an Israeli startup, is the search giant’s biggest ever

Can anyone save Macy’s? America’s biggest department store has rejected a takeover. Now what?

How a CEO knows when to quit Bosses have a shelf life and plenty of incentives to misjudge what it is

What a $600m wedding says about India’s attitude to wealth The Ambani nuptials enticed everyone from Justin Bieber and Shah Rukh Khan to John Kerry