There is a claim making the rounds this year that sounds both plausible and slightly magical. NielsenIQ surveyed consumers across 17 countries in March and found that people who use…
On 25 August the Food and Agriculture Organization published the fourteenth round of its Data in Emergencies monitoring for Bangladesh. It estimated that roughly 10 lakh agricultural households, about 50…
We are surrounded by lots of advertisements and discounts every day. The thing that really matters is how people feel about a brand. People usually do not remember what a…
On the evening of 11 June, bankers at Goldman Sachs priced the largest initial public offering ever attempted. SpaceX opened on Nasdaq the following morning at $135 a share, raised…
The World’s Creative Capital for One Extraordinary Week Every June, the French Riviera town of Cannes turns from a beach resort into the working capital of the global creative economy.…
platform. The business was reasonable enough in its conception — audio content was growing, and the tools for navigating it were primitive. Then Apple added podcast management to iTunes in…
Micro-habits and bite-sized on-demand learning are replacing structured professional development as the dominant mode of skill-building in 2026. The science behind why short, frequent exposures compound more effectively than intensive…
As AI automates more execution, the marketing organisation is flattening, team boundaries are blurring, and the CMO's role is shifting from managing people to architecting systems. What that shift looks…
Retail in Bangladesh has never been a simple business. It is a landscape shaped by fragmentation, price pressure, shifting consumer loyalties, and a distribution infrastructure that stretches from organized urban…
There is a particular kind of arithmetic that takes hold in a household when money gets tight. It begins with small decisions — the branded cereal swapped for the supermarket's…
Bata has been making shoes in Bangladesh since 1962. In a country of more than 180 million people, that is not merely a business fact — it is a cultural…
The Consensus Is Broken For thirty years, the big idea in global business was integration. Build where it's cheapest. Sell where demand is highest. Let the market sort out the…
In November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT and quietly ignited the most concentrated burst of corporate capital spending in modern history. What followed was not merely a technology trend but a…
Unicorns had their red-carpet moment in the last decade. In 2021, each of the founders wanted the horn, the headline, and the billion-dollar bragging rights. In 2026, however, the cooler…
This morning, after my first coffee, I was scrolling through email and observed how quickly we still prejudge commitment by response time. That habit, which is part of our formative…