Business

Pharma frenzy

Competition will make weight-loss drugs better, cheaper and bigger

Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly face a growing number of challengers

Dig out your trousers

Are bosses right to insist that workers return to the office?

Company mandates are infuriating employees

Earned out?

America’s growing profits are under threat

Look beyond a bullish earnings season and risks loom

Mine your own business

BHP and Rio Tinto are heading in different directions

The strategies of the world’s two most valuable miners are diverging

Bartleby

The horrors of the reply-all email thread

Easy to start, impossible to stop

Schumpeter

What if carmaking went the way of consumer electronics?

The Foxconnification of electric vehicles

Little frog, bigger pond

Poland’s stockmarket has a hot new entrant

The IPO of Zabka could help revive Warsaw’s beleaguered bourse

On the rack

Pity the superstar fashion designer

Creative directors are coming and going faster than the latest trends

Called out

Can artificial intelligence rescue customer service?

The adoption of AI is surging in call centres

Reign of the spreadsheet

Why Microsoft Excel won’t die

The business world’s favourite software program enters its 40th year

Autonomous cars

The trouble with Elon Musk’s robotaxi dream

Scaling up self-driving taxis will be hard, and competition will be fierce

Weekend profile

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, chemicals magnate turned sports mogul

The British billionaire is buying up teams from sailing to football to cycling