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Europe’s most valuable boss? How Christian Klein went from a 15-year-old intern to SAP’s savior

Inside SAP lifer Klein’s remarkable turnaround plan, as told by the CEO and his fellow executives.

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As more customers default on BNPL loans, Klarna’s CEO predicts AI will cause a recession

Sebastian Siemiatkowski foresees mass AI-induced headcount reductions among white collar workers.

09.06.2025 30

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Ireland joins the likes of China and Vietnam on list of countries the U.S. is monitoring for currency manipulation

Ireland previously made the list in 2019 and 2021, but has returned as Donald Trump promises to clamp down on allegedly unfair practices.

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Rolls-Royce CEO fired managers and held staff brainstorms as part of a ‘4 pillar’ turnaround plan that led to 600% share price jump

Tufan Erginbilgiç's four pillars involved showing employees the extent of Rolls-Royce's issues, then giving them a say in fixing them.

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Trump tariffs help push U.K. auto sector to worst production figures in more than 70 years

The last time the U.K. produced this few cars, Queen Elizabeth had just ascended to the throne and the Morris Minor was a bestseller.

29.05.2025 3

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Jaguar is going on a world tour to sell its controversial rebrand to wealthy art lovers

Jaguar's rebrand caused a social media storm last November as the carmaker diverged from its traditional audience in search of young customers.

22.05.2025 40

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European Parliament VP discovered there was nowhere in the building to change a diaper—it took the length of her pregnancy to change that

Silvana Koch-Merin said "glass walls" exist in parliament that stop women working in more technical roles.

21.05.2025 10

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Ryanair fares set to rise by nearly 20% as airline plots profit rebound

Ryanair reached 200 million passengers last year "despite" Boeing delays, now it's charting a course to increase fares.

20.05.2025 10

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Swiss running brand On became $3 billion richer in the last week. It’s coming for Nike and Adidas next

On, with the help of Zendaya, Roger Federer, and Elmo, keeps defying revenue expectations on its way to a $20 billion market cap.

17.05.2025 10

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Wealthy millennials are spending thousands on Jaguar Land Rover monthly subscriptions as flexibility becomes the newest form of luxury

Jaguar Land Rover's investment vehicle has created two startups that are attracting young, wealthy drivers.

15.05.2025 10

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Stripe’s billionaire Collison brothers say remote work solves the ‘two-body problem’ faced by working couples

Stripe president John Collison cautioned against RTO mandates, saying they catered to the “bottom 5% of the company.”

13.05.2025 4

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Currency hedging and new U.S. factories: Novo Nordisk CFO thinks Wegovy maker can outmaneuver global trade wars

Novo Nordisk's CFO says the company is well-placed to respond to an escalation of the global trade war.

09.05.2025 8

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Amazon is rolling out a robot with a sense of touch—but it won’t replace humans, the company says

Amazon Robotics' chief technologist, Tye Brady, wants to "eliminate" every mundane task faced by humans.

07.05.2025 4

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‘Complete nonsense’ to choose between AI innovation and regulation, says U.K. lawmaker behind landmark AI safety bill

Lord Chris Holmes of Richmond says AI regulation shouldn't be seen as a trade-off as the the U.K. crafts safety legislation.

06.05.2025 3

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Viagra and Mounjaro panic-buying could be behind a 200% export surge from Ireland to the U.S.

U.S. multinational activity propelled the Irish economy to 3.2% growth in the first quarter, as Trump fears come into focus.

30.04.2025 10

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Spotify’s HR chief says remote staff aren’t ‘children’ as company sticks to work-from-anywhere policy

Spotify isn’t planning to follow Amazon and scrap its “work from anywhere” policy, but its HR chief admitted remote work isn’t ideal.

29.04.2025 10

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BlackRock is piling money into the U.K. as Larry Fink claims the country has discovered its ‘capitulation point’

Larry Fink is hitting the U.K. economy with all guns blazing, provided he can find the office space.

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CFO of SAP, Europe’s most valuable company, hopes trade war is a ‘wake-up call’ for the continent

SAP's finance chief, Dominik Asam, hopes tariffs are a "wake-up call" that can kickstart Europe into building more tech giants.

24.04.2025 20

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Rheinmetall CEO expects order book to balloon by 450% amid Germany military boom

Rheinmetall's Armin Papperger expects his company to account for a quarter of Europe's $1.1 trillion defense splurge.

17.04.2025 8

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Europe’s billionaires—who pay their family office CEOs $370,000 a year—are worried they can’t find the talent to manage their fortunes

Europe's ultra-wealthy need to find staff from outside the family as younger generations forge their own path.

15.04.2025 10

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How a Japanese population crisis has quietly made Asahi one of Europe’s biggest beer makers

Asahi Super Dry and Peroni Nastro Azzurro have made the Japanese brewer a giant in the European beer market.

11.04.2025 20

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Russian economy grows at slowest pace in 2 years—a plunge in oil prices could make things much worse

Oil prices fell to four-year lows as the U.S. and China stepped up their trade war, putting extra pressure on Russia's key export.

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Europe’s pharma titans confront von der Leyen with threat to yank $113 billion from EU and relocate to U.S. as Trump plans ’major’ tariffs

Novo Nordisk and Sanofi were among companies threatening to hasten their exits to the U.S., as Trump promised pharma tariffs were coming 'shortly.'

09.04.2025 10

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ASML boss says young people are always asking him how to become a CEO. Here’s why he calls it an ‘absurd’ question

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says young workers should focus on what they're going to do tomorrow.

09.04.2025 20

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Trump tariffs could soften one of Europe’s most expensive housing markets—if Apple and Pfizer workers are hit with layoffs

Tech and pharma employees in Ireland are at risk from an escalating Trump trade war.

08.04.2025 9

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Exclusive: Half of the ‘Hybrid Generation’ would quit their jobs if forced back to office full-time, unless they get a pay rise, survey finds

A new report by BSI finds Gen Z isn't prepared to be introduced to the old era of fully in-office work.

08.04.2025 10

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Richard Branson makes Virgin Atlantic bosses play ‘Liar’s Dice’ on Necker Island retreats—he usually wins the game of ‘guesswork, bluff and luck’

Branson usually wins the game known as Perudo, according to Virgin Atlantic CEO Shai Weiss.

07.04.2025 10

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Spotify is pitching itself to advertisers as the anti-‘rotting and doom scrolling app’

Spotify wants to remind advertisers that users' "Jam" sessions could be a goldmine.

04.04.2025 6

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Bangladesh, the world’s second-largest garment producer, fears pain from Trump tariffs: ‘We were not ready for this’

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday slapped punishing new tariffs of 37% on Bangladesh.

03.04.2025 3

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Trump tariffs leave Northern Ireland, and its whiskey and plane makers, at the whim of the EU

Northern Ireland's special relationship with the U.K. and EU could make or break the country after Trump's tariff rollout.

03.04.2025 3

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The Czech Republic, and its quiet automotive giant Skoda, are bucking an economic downturn unfolding in its crucial ally Germany

Volkswagen-owned Skoda is defying a broader downturn for the German carmaker.

03.04.2025 5

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Donald Trump’s strategy to weaken the dollar could already be a success—in making it too expensive for Americans to travel to Europe

Virgin Atlantic, which made $1.3 billion from the U.S. last year, is seeing a decline in demand from Americans.

01.04.2025 20

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Accenture CEO Julie Sweet asks new hires what they’ve learned in the last 6 months: ‘If they can’t answer that question, we know they’re not a learner’

Julie Sweet wants workers to be ready to adapt amid AI’s radical impact on the way we work.

01.04.2025 6

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Sir Richard Branson says history will remember this time as when the West’s trust in America ‘ended’

Branson lambasted the new Donald Trump administration, comparing current actions to Roosevelt hypothetically siding with Hitler in World War II.

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Ferrari’s U.S. customers may be forced to pay $50,000 more for their 12Cilindri as carmaker hikes prices over Trump tariffs

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna warned in March the carmaker was ready with countermeasures in the event of tariffs.

28.03.2025 7

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Sanofi’s chief digital officer says remote work means employees lose the ‘serendipity’ needed to innovate

"I think we were contrarians,” Sanofi's chief digital officer Emmanuel Frenehard told Fortune. “I think the contrarians are becoming the norm.”

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Rolls-Royce CEO fired managers and held staff brainstorms as part of a ‘4 pillar’ turnaround plan that led to 500% share price jump

Tufan Erginbilgiç's four pillars involved showing employees the extent of Rolls-Royce's issues, then giving them a say in fixing them.

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‘I’m not trying to turn GSK into Google’: How GSK’s Silicon Valley veteran has transformed the pharma giant into a tech powerhouse

Shobie Ramakrishnan has helped transform GSK into a data-led company, helping speed up drug discovery.

25.03.2025 10

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The billionaire pipeline: How a 2000s startup boom fueled Europe’s tech renaissance

Why did it take Europe so long to kick-start its entrepreneurial streak? And what changed to allow the continent’s founder factories to flourish?

25.03.2025 10

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Why a partner at early Facebook backer Accel grills jobhunters about the biggest risk they’ve ever taken

Harry Nelis doesn't just want his future staffers to have an appetite for risk, but the right appetite.

25.03.2025 10

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Klarna CEO defends DoorDash ‘eat now, pay later’ deal as critics slam ‘Collateralized Doordash Obligations’

Sebastian Siemiatkowski said U.S. customers would discover the many ways to use Klarna, as DoorDash deal inspires "The Big Short" memes.

24.03.2025 9

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Russia’s fallen giant Gazprom selling off luxury properties as group swings to reported $12.9 billion loss

Gazprom is struggling with collapsed demand in the West, leading it to trim the fat.

18.03.2025 4

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Newly minted millennials and Gen Z now make up 40% of new Ferrari buyers

Most of Ferrari's clients are existing customers, but new buyers are increasingly coming from younger generations.

17.03.2025 20

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UBS follows Deutsche Bank by banning staff from working remotely on both Friday and Monday

UBS staff will have to come into the office on either a Monday or a Friday as the bank tries to better manage its space.

14.03.2025 8

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Volkswagen’s own-brand currywurst sausage proves almost as popular as its cars amid automotive sales decline

Volkswagen sold 8.55 million currywursts last year, almost equalling the 9 million cars sold across the group.

14.03.2025 20

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Germany’s biggest weapons contractor—now worth more than Volkswagen—could literally be moving onto carmaker’s turf

Rheinmetall is open to the prospect of buying up an unwanted Volkswagen site, the latest sign of a shift in Germany's industrial backbone.

13.03.2025 3

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Bank CEO running 4-day work week says cutting working hours isn’t ‘progressive’, and AI will make it ‘bloody logical’

Atom Bank CEO Mark Mullen doesn't expect to see most his employees at the company's new HQ in Newcastle.

13.03.2025 10

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A Barcelona restaurant-NGO hybrid could offer a solution to the city’s over-tourism problem

Global Humanitaria's restaurant is revered by tourists, who leave with more than a full stomach.

12.03.2025 10

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European markets hold steady as U.S. trade tensions and recession fears rattle global markets

London's stock market dipped in morning deals Tuesday, while Paris and Frankfurt edged higher, helped by gains for infrastructure and defense stocks.

11.03.2025 4

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Europe’s airlines are plunging in value as Trump recession warnings threaten Americans’ ‘unbelievable’ spending power abroad

Shares in IAG and Air France-KLM fell as fears of a U.S. recession weigh on holiday spending hopes.

11.03.2025 4

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