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There are other ways of exploiting victims in the ‘business model’ of modern slavery.
The Anthill 27: Confidence
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A podcast about confidence – from how it works in our brains and whether it can get us ahead at work to how confidence tricksters fool people into falling for their scams.
Wellies at the ready, these researchers have been digging up the truth about the festival business.
Silicon Valley’s chip supplier de choix scored a massive own goal with smartphones. If it has got driverless cars wrong too, it could be goodnight Santa Clara.
A dormant ‘cash mountain’ marks a nadir for London’s contactless travel card, but trouble has been brewing for some time.
In ten years, Netflix has built up a streaming business with a staggering 125m subscribers. Here’s what it needs to do next.
The British foreign secretary, Francis Osborne, tried to negotiate free trade deals with eight European rivals in the late 18th century. Guess how many bit the dust.
Fans are shifting their consumption of the World Cup online.
Some estimates say the World Cup will bring a £1.6 billion boost to the UK economy. Do they stack up?
And it doesn’t involve immigrant bashing. Quite the opposite.
Walmart is bigger than Spain, Berkshire Hathaway is bigger than Russia. It could be time to rethink international relations.
While the US gets protectionist, China is working to establish itself as a leader in global trade rules.
Two years after the Brexit referendum, Cabinet members apparently agreed on the country’s vision for its future relationship with the EU. But it has already led to a flurry of resignations.
Connecting smugglers, disposable workers, garbage pickers and the poorest of consumers, the flip-flop trail is one of globalisation’s darker stories.
The heatwave is unlikely to cause the price hikes of 1976 for a number of reasons.
More women are on zero hours contracts but these do not feature in gender pay gap reporting.
The challenges facing town centres and high streets are intensifying.
Glance at House of Fraser, John Lewis et al and you might think it’s time to give up the ghost.
There are competing claims over what the optimal office temperature is. Here’s what the research says.
Standing in meetings offers the opportunity to sit less and move more.
Location counts when it comes to sustainable development.
Central Asia is at the centre of two new initiatives by China and Russia that run against a longstanding economic vision of the US.
Supply chains are complex things. Big firms need to give them more attention.
Research shows that the probability of entrepreneurial success jumps after the age of 35, increasing up to the age of 60,