Informed i’s Weekly Business Insights In 2024 | Curation for the Shaping Section

In 2024 Informed i curated and shared with you 137 articles in its weekly newsletter. Here is the list

No. of the articleTitle of the Article, Author, Magazine, Date of Publication
1How to get rich in the 21st century
The Economist | January 2, 2024
2Meet the economist who wants the field to account for nature
By Kathryn Miles | MIT Technology Review | December 26, 2023
3What Dermatologists Really Think About Those Anti-Aging Products
By Jeannette Neumann | Bloomberg Businessweek | December 21, 2023
4Three surprises that could inflame commodity markets in 2024
The Economist | January 4, 2023
5As gen AI advances, regulators—and risk functions—rush to keep pace
By Andreas Kremer | McKinsey & Company | December 21, 2023
6Eight Tech Products That Could Define 2024
By Vlad Savov | Bloomberg Businessweek | January 5, 2024
7The race to produce rare earth materials
By Mureji Fatunde | MIT Technology Review | January 5, 2024
8An influx of Chinese cars is terrifying the West
The Economist | January 14, 2024
9Ten unsung digital and AI ideas shaping business
By Kate Smaje and Rodney Zemmel | McKinsey & Company | January 9, 2024
10The Middle East faces economic chaos
The Economist | January 18, 2024
1110 key takeaways from Davos 2024
McKinsey & Compnay | January 21, 2024
12AI holds tantalising promise for the emerging world
The Economist | January 25, 2024
13Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, December 2023
By Jeffrey Condon | McKinsey & Company | January 22, 2024
14How the West’s Favorite Autocrat Engineered Africa’s Most Dramatic Turnaround
By Neil Munshi and Simon Marks | Bloomberg Businessweek | January 25, 2024
15Seven Sustainability Trends to Watch in 2024
By Andrew Winston | MIT Sloan Management Review | January 23, 2024
16From unicorns to unicorpses: Why billion-dollar startups and even VC firms keep imploding
By Jessica Mathews | Fortune Magazine | Feb-March 2024 Issue
17The end of the social network
The Economist | Feb 1, 2024
18Why the world’s biggest EV maker is getting into shipping
By Zeyi Yanga | MIT Technology Review | January 30, 2024
19Geopolitics and the geometry of global trade
By Jeongmin Seong et al., | McKinsey & Company | January 17, 2024
20Universities are failing to boost economic growth
The Economist | Fe 5, 2024
21How to achieve great health for all? Start in your city.
By Hemant Ahlawat | McKinsey & Company | February 9, 2024
22Layoffs Show That Tech Jobs Aren’t Sacred Anymore
By Antonia Mufarech and Drake Bennett | Bloomberg Businessweek | February 7, 2024
23Why China is betting big on chiplets
By Zeyi Yang | MIT Technology Review | February 6, 2024
24How not to do a megaproject
The Economist | Feb 15, 2024
25The age of the unicorn is over
The Economist | Feb 22, 2024
26Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, January 2024
By Jeffrey Condon et al., | McKinsey & Company | February 21, 2024
27How businesses are actually using generative AI
The Economist | Feb 29, 2024
28Bitcoin is running out of enemies
By Jeff John Roberts | Fortune Magazine | March 4, 2024
29The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
The Economist | March 7, 2024
30Chinese EVs have entered center stage in US-China tensions
By Zeyi Yang | MIT Technology Review | March 6, 2024
31Oil’s endgame could be highly disruptive
The Economist | March 14, 2024
32China’s Super-Cheap EVs Offer Hope for Average American Buyers
By Keith Naughton | Bloomberg Businessweek | March 18, 2024
33The quest to legitimize longevity medicine
By Jessica Hamzelou | MIT Technology Review | March 18, 2024
34Why Japan’s economy remains a warning to others
The Economist | March 19, 2024
35The AI doctor will see you…eventually
The Economist | March 27, 2024
36Investing in productivity growth
By Jan Mischke et al., | McKinsey & Company | March 27, 2024
37Jokes, Pop Music and Radical Honesty: How TikTok Is Changing Home Sales
By Ella Ceron | Bloomberg Businessweek | March 26, 2024
38AI is helping startups scale at a rapid pace, boosting the entrepreneurial ecosystems of one-time laggards Italy and Belgium
By Peter Vanham and Nicholas Gordon | Fortune Magazine | April 3, 2024
39Economic conditions outlook, March 2024
By Jeffrey Condon et al., | McKinsey & Company | March 29, 2024
40What will humans do if technology solves everything?
The Economist | April 9, 2024
41Space: The $1.8 trillion opportunity for global economic growth
By Alizée Acket-Goemaere et al., | McKinsey & Company | April 8, 2024
42Race for AI Supremacy in Middle East Is Measured in Data Centers
By Marissa Newman et al., | Bloomberg Businessweek | April 11, 2024
43How the oil earnings of Saudi Aramco, the world’s most profitable company, are helping the Saudi monarchy shake up the global economic order
By Vivienne Walt | Fortune Magazine | April-May 2024 Issue
44Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?
The Economist | April 18, 2024
45For Multinationals, Africa’s Allure Is Fading
By Janice Kew et al. | Bloomberg Businessweek | April 17, 2024
46Three ways the US could help universities compete with tech companies on AI innovation
By Ylli Bajraktari | MIT Technology Review | April 19, 2024
47Chinese firms are expanding in South-East Asia
The Economist | April 22, 2024
48Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, March 2024
By Jeffrey Condon et al., | McKinsey & Company | April 22, 2024
49Highly Skilled Professionals Want Your Work But Not Your Job
By Diane Gherson and Lynda Gratton | Harvard Business Review Magazine | May–June 2024 Issue
50Notes From TED … A Recap Of Last Week’s Conference In Vancouver
By Dev Patnaik | Forbes Magazine | April 28, 2024
51Immigration is surging, with big economic consequences
The Economist | April 30, 2024
52AI Is Helping Automate One of the World’s Most Gruesome Jobs
By Gerson Freitas Jr and Isis Almeida | Bloomberg Businessweek | May 1, 2024
53Three takeaways about the current state of batteries
By Casey Crownhart | MIT Technology Review | May 2, 2024
54The liberal international order is slowly coming apart
The Economist | May 9, 2024
55The AI Chatbot That Could Transform Business School Accreditation
By Paul Keegan | Bloomberg Businessweek | April 17, 2024
56Technology is probably changing us for the worse—or so we always think
By Timothy Maher | MIT Technology Review | May 15, 2024
57America is in the midst of an extraordinary startup boom
The Economist | May 12, 2024
58Brazil, India and Mexico are taking on China’s exports
The Economist | May 23, 2024
59Five ways criminals are using AI
By Melissa Heikkilä | MIT Technology Review | May 21, 2024
60The Six Choke Points That Can Upend Global Trade
By Alaric Nightingale | Bloomberg Businessweek | May 23, 2024
61Foreign investors are rejecting Indian stocks
The Economist | May 31, 2024
62The state of tourism and hospitality 2024
By Matteo Pacca et al., | McKinsey & Company | Report published in later half of May 2024
63What I learned from the UN’s “AI for Good” summit
By Melissa Heikkilä | MIT Technology Review | June 4, 2024
64How Saudi Aramco plans to win the oil endgame
The Econmomist | June 2, 2024
65A new future of work: The race to deploy AI and raise skills in Europe and beyond
By Eric Hazan et al., | McKinsey & Company | May 21, 2024
66The EU hits China’s carmakers with hefty new tariffs
The Economist | June 12, 2024
67How gamification took over the world
By Bryan Gardiner | MIT Technology Review | June 13, 2024
68Introducing Fortune’s first-ever Southeast Asia 500: Firms that mine stuff, make stuff, and move stuff dominate a fast-growing region
By Clay Chandler | Fortune Magazine | June 18, 2024
69The exponential growth of solar power will change the world
The Economist | June 20, 2024
70Investment: Taking the pulse of European competitiveness
By Massimo Giordano et al., | McKinsey & Company | June 20, 2024
71How generative AI could reinvent what it means to play
By Niall Firth | MIT Technology Review | June 20, 2024
72Will services make the world rich?
The Economist | June 24, 2024
73How to Cool Down Parks in Hot Cities
By Todd Woody | Bloomberg Businessweek | June 14, 2024
74What’s next in chips
By James O’Donnell | MIT Technology Review | May 13, 2024
75What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?
The Economist | July 2, 2024
76What are AI agents?
By Melissa Heikkilä | MIT Technology Review | July 5, 2024
77How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk
By Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz | Harvard Business Review Magazine | July–August 2024 Issue
78Boomers are leaving America to retire abroad in droves because the U.S. is just too expensive
By Alicia Adamczyk | Fortune Magazine | July 7, 2024
79How to raise the world’s IQ
The Economist | July 11, 2024
80Asia Is The New Hot Destination for Luxury Travel
By K Oanh Ha | Bloomberg Businessweek | July 11, 2024
81AI can make you more creative—but it has limits
By Rhiannon Williams | MIT Technology Review | July 12, 2024
82China is the West’s corporate R&D lab. Can it remain so?
The Economist | July 18, 2024
83McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2024
By Lareina Yee et al., | McKinsey & Company | July 16, 2024
84Donald Trump’s promise of a golden age for oil is fanciful
The Economist | July 24, 2024
85“Copyright traps” could tell writers if an AI has scraped their work
By Melissa Heikkilä | MIT Technology Review | July 25, 2024
86Where To Next? Opportunity on the Edge
By Emily S. Block and Viva Ona Bartkus | MIT Sloan Management Review | July 22, 2024
87Chinese companies are winning the global south
The Economist | Aug 1, 2024
88The ‘evergreen economy’: Harnessing the power of healthy longevity
McKinsey & Company | July 3, 2024
89The Chevron Doctrine Is Dead. What Are the Implications for Business?
By David Zimmer | MIT Sloan Management Review | July 30, 2024
90We need to prepare for ‘addictive intelligence’
By Robert Mahari and Pat Pataranutaporn | MIT Technology Review | August 5, 2024
91China’s manufacturers are going broke
The Economist | August 8, 2024
92How India’s fast-growing middle class propelled HDFC Bank into the Global 500
By Nicholas Gordon | Fortune Magazine | August-September 2024 Issue
93Talent is scarce. Yet many countries spurn it
The Economist | August 15, 2024
94The hard stuff: Navigating the physical realities of the energy transition
By Mekala Krishnan et al., | McKinsey & Company | August 14, 2024
95Happy birthday, baby! What the future holds for those born today
By Kara Platoni | MIT Technology Review | August 15, 2024
96How to attract Indian tourists
The Economist | August 22, 2024
97Digital twins are fast becoming part of everyday life
The Economist | August 29, 2024
98Pixels of Progress: A granular look at Vietnam’s development journey
By Bruce Delteil et al., | McKinsey & Company | August 22, 2024
99Commercial ties between the Gulf and Asia are deepening
The Economist | September 5, 2024
100Why family empires dominate business in India
The Economist | September 12, 2024
101Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human evolution
By Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review | Sep-Oct 2024 Issue
102Best Business School Rankings 2024–25
By Dimitra Kessenides et al., | Bloomberg Businessweek | September 15, 2024
103How the world’s poor stopped catching up
The Economist | September 19, 2024
104Five Reasons to Be Optimistic About the Entertainment Business
By Lucas Shaw | Bloomberg Businessweek | September 23, 2024
105Some countries are ending support for EVs. Is it too soon?
By Casey Crownhart | MIT Technology Review | September 23, 2024
106How India can compete in labour-intensive manufacturing
The Economist | September 26, 2024
107Asia–Pacific’s family office boom: Opportunity knocks
By Bernhard Kotanko et al., | McKinsey & Company | September 9, 2024
108AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers’ world
The Economist | September 29, 2024
109Rotting Rice in India Fuels Discontent About Modi’s Food Policy
By Pratik Parija | Bloomberg Busienssweek | October 4, 2024
110Geoffrey Hinton, AI pioneer and figurehead of doomerism, wins Nobel Prize
By Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review | October 8, 2024
111The front line of the tech war is in Asia
The Economist | October 10, 2024
112Africa fights rising hunger by looking to foods of the past
By Jonathan W. Rosen | Bloomberg Businessweek | October 14, 2024
113America’s economy is bigger and better than ever
The Economist | October 17, 2024
114Germany’s lost decade: How the Fortune 500 Europe giant is flirting with long-term irrelevance
By Ryan Hogg | Fortune Magazine | October 23, 2024
115Developing Countries Can’t Count on Manufacturing to Supercharge Growth
By Kai Schultz and Shruti Srivastava | Bloomberg Businessweek | October 21, 2024
116It’s not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world
The Economist | October 26, 2024
117The next big arenas of competition
By Chris Bradley et al., | McKinsey & Company | October 23, 2024
118Inside Dubai’s risky bid to become the world’s crypto hub
By Leo Schwartz | Fortune Magazine | October 30, 2024
119What if Microsoft let OpenAI go free?
The Economist | October 28, 2024
120Who Thinks China’s Not an Economic Powerhouse? China
By Dan Murtaugh et al., | Bloomberg Businessweek | October 2024 Issue
121OpenAI brings a new web search tool to ChatGPT
By Melissa Heikkilä | MIT Technology Review | October 31, 2024
122India’s startup scene is picking up speed again
The Economist | November 7, 2024
123What Africa needs to do to become a major AI player
By Abdullahi Tsanni | MIT Technology Review | November 11, 2024
124What’s about to hit the world economy?
The Economist | November 14, 2024
125Too many master’s courses are expensive and flaky
The Economist | November 21, 2024
126How China will strike back at Trump
The Econonmist | December 01, 2024
127Dubai’s Alleged Crypto Scams Are Raking in Billions
By Alice Kantor | Bloomberg Businessweek | December 5, 2024
128How the Ukraine-Russia war is reshaping the tech sector in Eastern Europe
By Peter Guest | MIT Technology Review | December 4, 2024
129Which economy did best in 2024?
The Economist | December 10, 2024
130How Silicon Valley is disrupting democracy
By Bryan Gardiner | MIT Technology Review | December 13, 2024
131Finance, consulting and tech are gobbling up top students
The Economist | December 22, 2024
132The 8 worst technology failures of 2024
By Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review | December 17, 2024
133Fentanyl Almost Killed Michael Brewer. Now He Wants Snap to Pay
By Olivia Carville | Bloomberg Businessweek | December 19, 2024
134Conflict is remaking the Middle East’s economic order
The Economist | December 19, 2024
135McKinsey Global Institute: 2024 in charts
By McKinsey Globa Institute | December 12, 2024
136Trump Agenda Won’t Hurt Global Economy as Much Next Year as in 2026
By Tom Orlik | Bloomberg Businessweek | Jan 01, 2025 Issue
137The humans behind the robots
By James O’Donnell | MIT Technology Review | December 24, 2024
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