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News
- State of European Tech report finds record funding and rampant discrimination (VentureBeat covers Atomico report)
- Mike Ashley calls for online tax to save high street (BBC)
- Business school case studies depict women as more overwhelmed and less visionary (Qz covers Western University, Ontario research)
- Facial recognition has to be regulated to protect the public, says AI report(MIT Technology Review covers AI Now Institute report)
- Deliveroo riders lose latest legal battle over collective bargaining rights(Independent)
Opinion
- Why social entrepreneurs are so burned out (Edwald Kibler, assistant professor, Aalto University School of Business)
- The next Bill Gates won’t look like the last one (Melinda Gates)
- Facebook’s dirty tricks are nothing new for tech (Nitasha Tiku, senior writer, Wired)
- Why ‘woke as a business strategy’ is on the rise (Scott Galloway, marketing professor, New York University)
- Related: The strange world of MeToo marketing (Elizabeth Segran, staff writer, Fast Company)
- A new kind of capitalism needs a new generation of inspired – and inspiring – leaders (Sebastian Buck, co-founder, enso)
- From the archive: A luddite levy on online shopping won’t help the high street (Max von Thun, former CFE lead researcher, and economic policy advisor)
Features
- Evening Standard: JCB’s Lord Bamford – the bulldozing boss who wants family firms to get a bigger say
- Real Business: Meet the co-working space that’s producing award-winning businesses (Plexal profile)