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The boundary between banking and private equity has always been more permeable than the institutional cultures on either side of it tend to acknowledge. Banks finance private equity transactions. PE…

The agricultural knowledge that most farmers can access is local by default. It reflects the conditions of their region, the practices of their neighbours, the advice of the agronomists and…

Corporate boards in the life sciences are assembled with care, yet they are often populated by people whose deepest expertise lies in finance, law, or general management. The scientific work…

There is a version of governance education that happens in business school, in case studies and tidy diagrams showing the relationship between management and the board. Then there is the…

The word sustainability has a problem. It has been used so many times, in so many contexts, by so many people with competing agendas, that it has begun to lose…

In finance, advantage is often described in terms of capital, technology, or access. Markets reward scale and speed. Yet for Dame Alison Rose, competitive edge has long been rooted in…

In agriculture, technology is often presented as a solution in search of a problem. New tools arrive promising efficiency, sustainability, and insight, yet many fail to integrate cleanly into the…

In British public life, the phrase “business responsibility” often floats somewhere between aspiration and obligation. It is invoked in annual reports, policy panels, and speeches that promise alignment without quite…

In central London real estate, the most consequential work rarely happens in the moments that make the brochure. It happens in the parts that feel like delay: the planning submission…

Biotech has a peculiar rhythm. The science moves in bursts, the funding arrives in waves, and the stakes stay high the whole time. A lab result can feel definitive on…