July 2023
- Exclusive
- Workplace culture
Atlassian and Canva turn screws on staff to survive the downturn
Atlassian and Canva are shifting their staff culture to embrace tougher performance management rankings like those used by tech giants Amazon and Microsoft.
- Nick Bonyhady and Mark Di Stefano
January 2023
- Opinion
- Crime
Corporate Australia’s dirty hidden secret
Business crime may be endemic across big companies, and law enforcement is doing little to stop it.
- Aaron Patrick
October 2022
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
GE Healthcare leaves the mothership
The once venerable General Electric is breaking itself apart, providing investors with a chance to specialise in healthcare, aviation or energy.
- Tony Boyd
November 2021
GE, symbol of American manufacturing, ends its run as a conglomerate
The company’s announcement is the culmination of a years-long reshaping of a symbol of US manufacturing might.
- Updated
- Rajesh Kumar Singh and Abhijith Ganapavaram
By shedding the past, GE aims to secure its future
GE’s biggest burden was its rich and successful history across a variety of industries, and after the three-way split this week, it now has to live without it.
- Steve Lohr and Michael de la Merced
April 2021
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why Jeff Immelt could never fix GE
Few companies have had more impact on industrial development in the United States than General Electric. Now, one of its former CEOs is coming clean about its $150 billion collapse in value.
- Tony Boyd
August 2020
Inside the world of the man behind TikTok
Zhang Yiming, founder of the company behind TikTok, once told a colleague sleep was necessary only to achieve 'optimal condition'. The entrepreneur's global ambitions have been checked by the unpredictability of the Trump administration.
- Yuan Yang and Hannah Murphy
March 2020
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
US economy is dangerously dependent on Wall Street whims
How much longer can we run an economy driven so disproportionately by financially engineered asset bubbles? The next few weeks and months may give us the answer.
- Rana Foroohar
- Analysis
- Leadership lessons
Death of America's 'manager of the century'
'Neutron' Jack Welch, who has died at the age of 84, was one of America’s most influential managers and embodied the past century’s “cult of the CEO”.
- Tony Jackson and Andrew Hill
- Opinion
- Leadership lessons
Jack Welch was a CEO idol who damaged American capitalism
Corporate America is in trouble because it has taken the creed of shareholder returns to its logical extremes.
- Joe Nocera
December 2019
- Opinion
- Workplace
Time to bring back the corporate bureaucrat
The cult of the manager as entrepreneur lies underneath many of our recent scandals. We have to start thinking like institutions again.
- Tanveer Ahmed
November 2019
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Inside GE before the downfall
Sir Clive Cowdery worked at General Electric during its steady rise to the top. He quickly learned the inner workings of the sprawling conglomerate - and the seeds of its downfall.
- Tony Boyd