Solar makers test nickel tape to replace silver solder in panels
As solar makers squeeze costs, a radical alternative to silver solder could rewire the entire industry.
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The archetypal high-growth founder isn’t a 20-year-old prodigy in a garage. A US…
A Census-linked study of 2.7 million US founders found that exceptional employment growth was associated with middle age, with relevant industry experience offering the clearest clue as to why.
Learning in the age of information: how access counterfeits understanding, and how…
Having everything at our fingertips has made us confuse access with understanding—and it's making us neither wiser nor smarter.
The Novo Nordisk Foundation retains voting control of Novo Nordisk and awarded DKK…
The Foundation is obliged to maintain a controlling interest and held 77.3% of votes at the end of 2025. Cross-foundation asset rankings are not directly comparable.
See’s says it maintained its ingredient standards during Second World War…
See’s own history says it kept using butter, cream and sugar and made less candy during rationing. That first-party account does not document universal competitor substitution or prove later loyalty.
The claim that people’s welfare matters more than profit tangles two very…
When profits and worker welfare clash, the real debate begins—the first one about facts, the second about values.
Psychology says the trait we most admire as “confidence” in leaders overlaps…
The charisma we mistake for leadership capability may be indistinguishable from the grandiosity that derails organizations from within.
Ireland’s data centres used 5 per cent of the country’s metered electricity in…
A quiet infrastructure boom is quietly reshaping Ireland's energy future—and nobody planned for it.
Microsoft Japan gave roughly 2,300 employees five consecutive Fridays off in…
Microsoft Japan's 39.9% sales-per-employee comparison was real, but the company said the trial did not cause it alone. The meeting redesign is the experiment's more direct lesson.
In 1926, Henry Ford cut his factory workers from six days a week to five and…
Ford said its factories could produce at least as much in 40 hours as in 48. The claim came from repeated operating changes, not a controlled scientific trial.
Why did an oil-producing country pumping about two million barrels a day make…
Norway pumps two million barrels a day, exports almost all of it, banks the proceeds in a $1.8 trillion sovereign fund — and buys electric cars at a rate no other country has ever matched. Inside the policy machinery that holds the contradiction together.
There’s a charge added to almost everything you buy that you never agreed to and…
Merchants have been quietly passing along billions in hidden credit card fees to you every time you swipe, and nobody's talking about it.