Shaping Section | 2025 Archive
| No | Week | Articles curated for Strategy & Business Model Section | 2025 |
| 1 | 382 | Smarter incentives would help India adapt to climate change The Economist | January 02, 2025 |
| 2 | MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2025 By MIT Technology Review | January 2025 | |
| 3 | 383 | The capitalist revolution Africa needs The Economist | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 4 | What Happens When TikTok’s Trend Machine Shuts Down? By Amanda Mull | Bloomberg Businessweek | January 7, 2025 | |
| 5 | Economic empowerment made-to-measure: How companies can benefit more people By Kweilin Ellingrud | McKinsey Global Institute – McKinsey & Company | January 8, 2025 | |
| 6 | What’s next for AI in 2025 By James O’Donnell et al., | MIT Technology Review | January 8, 2025 | |
| 7 | 384 | Can the Gulf states become tech superpowers? The Economist | January 16, 2025 |
| 8 | 385 | Tariffs will harm America, not induce a manufacturing rebirth The Economist | January 21, 2025 |
| 9 | Economic conditions outlook, December 2024 By Sven Smit | McKinsey & Company | December 20, 2024 | |
| 10 | How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions By Caiwei Chen | MIT Technology Review | January 24, 2025 | |
| 11 | 386 | Milei, Modi, Trump: an anti-red-tape revolution is under way The Economist | January 30, 2025 |
| 12 | Geopolitics and the geometry of global trade: 2025 update By Jeongmin Seong et al. | McKinsey Global Institute | McKinsey & Company | January 27, 2025 | |
| 13 | OpenAI’s new agent can compile detailed reports on practically any topic By Rhiannon Williams | MIT Tech Review | February 3, 2025 | |
| 14 | 387 | The vast and sophisticated global enterprise that is Scam Inc The Economist | February 6, 2025 |
| 15 | Meta has an AI for brain typing, but it’s stuck in the lab By Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review | February 7, 2025 | |
| 16 | 388 | How AI will divide the best from the rest The Economist | February 13, 2025 |
| 17 | Davos 2025: CEOs are excited to go on offense By Daniel Pacthod et al., | McKinsey & Company | February 6, 2025 | |
| 18 | 389 | It’s not just AI. China’s medicines are surprising the world, too The Economist | February 16, 2025 |
| 19 | Investment fraud is up, and not just for Boomers. By Dorothy Gambrell and Reyhan Harmanci | Bloomberg Businessweek | February 21, 2025 | |
| 20 | The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled By Karen Hao | MIT Technology Review | February 21, 2025 | |
| 21 | 390 | A guide to dodging Donald Trump’s tariffs The Economist | February 24, 2025 |
| 22 | Tariffs, layoffs, and immigration—the triple threat to economic growth that has Wall Street worrying about the U.S. economy By Greg McKenna | Fortune | March 4, 2025 | |
| 23 | 391 | Aid cannot make poor countries rich The Economist | March 6, 2025 |
| 24 | Your most important customer may be AI By Scott J Mulligan | MIT Technology Review | February 19, 2025 | |
| 25 | This 4-question quiz from Stanford psychiatrists can help protect from the dangers of AI By Saneha Borisuth and Nina Vasan | Fortune | March 12, 2025 | |
| 26 | 392 | With Manus, AI experimentation has burst into the open The Economist | March 13, 2025 |
| 27 | 393 | How to enhance humans The Economist | March 20, 2025 |
| 28 | 4 technologies that could power the future of energy By Casey Crownhart | MIT Technology Review | March 19, 2025 | |
| 29 | 394 | Is Elon Musk remaking government or breaking it? The Economist | March 27, 2025 |
| 30 | Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, February 2025 By Sven Smit et al., | McKinsey & Company | March 21, 2025 | |
| 31 | Inside a romance scam compound—and how people get tricked into being there By Peter Guest and Emily Fishbein | MIT Technology Review | March 27, 2025 | |
| 32 | 395 | How America could end up making China great again The Economist | April 5, 2025 |
| 33 | MIT Harnesses AI to Accelerate Startup Ambitions By Robb Mandelbaum | Bloomberg Businessweek | February 28, 2025 | |
| 34 | Cyberattacks by AI agents are coming By Rhiannon Williams | MIT Technology Review | April 4, 2025 | |
| 35 | 396 | MAGA’s remaking of universities could have dire consequences The Economist | April 10, 2025 |
| 36 | Restricted: How export controls are reshaping markets By Cindy Levy et al., | McKinsey & Company | April 3, 2025 | |
| 37 | How AI can help supercharge creativity By Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review | April 10, 2025 | |
| 38 | 397 | How a dollar crisis would unfold The Economist | April 16, 2025 |
| 39 | $8 billion of US climate tech projects have been canceled so far in 2025 By Casey Crownhart | MIT Technology Review | April 21, 2025 | |
| 40 | The Real Mastermind Behind Trump’s Imperial Presidency By Max Chafkin | Bloomberg Businessweek | April 21, 2025 | |
| 41 | 398 | Trump is a revolutionary. Will he succeed? The Economist | April 24, 2025 |
| 42 | Capturing performance opportunities in US state and local governments By David Nuzum et al., | McKinsey & Company | April 25, 2025 | |
| 43 | How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025 By Marc Zao-Sanders | Harvard Business Review | April 9, 2025 | |
| 44 | 399 | Why China has the upper hand in its trade war with America The Economist | May 1, 2025 |
| 45 | How Gen AI Is Transforming Market Research By Jeremy Korst, et al., | Harvard Business Review | May–June 2025 Issue | |
| 46 | 400 | Saudi Arabia is pulling off an astonishing transformation The Economist | May 8, 2025 |
| 47 | Revolutionary innovations propelling growth By Matt Banholzer and Rebecca Doherty | McKinsey & Company | May 5, 2025 | |
| 48 | 401 | Crypto has become the ultimate swamp asset The Economist | May 15, 2025 |
| 49 | Microsoft’s CEO on How AI Will Remake Every Company, Including His By Austin Carr and Dina Bass | Bloomberg Businessweek | May 16, 2025 | |
| 50 | Four reasons to be optimistic about AI’s energy usage By Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review | May 20, 2025 | |
| 51 | 402 | American companies have a new image problem The Economist | May 19, 2025 |
| 52 | By putting AI into everything, Google wants to make it invisible By Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review | May 21, 2025 | |
| 53 | How Saudi Arabia plans to become a fashion haven By Prarthana Prakash | Fortune | May 22, 2025 | |
| 54 | 403 | Why it has never been better to be a big company The Economist | May 26, 2025 |
| 55 | From protection to promotion: The new age of industrial policy By Cindy Levy and others | McKinsey & Company | May 16, 2025 | |
| 56 | India Is Gripped by a Spiritual Tourism Boom as Faith Becomes Fashionable By Satviki Sanjay | Bloomberg Businessweek | May 23, 2025 | |
| 57 | This giant microwave may change the future of war By Sam Dean | MIT Technology Review | May 29, 2025 | |
| 58 | 404 | The stunning decline of the preference for having boys The Economist | June 5, 2025 |
| 59 | Trump’s $12 Billion Tourism Wipeout By K Oanh Ha and Dorothy Gambrell | Bloomberg Businessweek | June 6, 2025 | |
| 60 | Why doctors should look for ways to prescribe hope By Jessica Hamzelou | MIT Technology Review | June 6, 2025 | |
| 61 | 405 | The world must escape the manufacturing delusion The Economist | June 12, 2025 |
| 62 | The power of one: How standout firms grow national productivity By Jan Mischke et al., | McKinsey & Company | May 6, 2025 | |
| 63 | US Tariffs Threaten to Derail Vietnam’s Historic Industrial Boom By Anders Melin et al., | Bloomberg Businessweek | June 12, 2025 | |
| 64 | Sodium-based batteries are finding a niche By Casey Crownhart | MIT Technology Review | June 12, 2025 | |
| 65 | Inside The Global 2000: Trump’s Tariffs Haven’t Stopped The World’s Growth… Yet By Hank Tucker | Forbes Magazine | June 12, 2025 | |
| 66 | 406 | What the “cockroaches” of the ad world teach about dealing with AI The Economist | June 19, 2025 |
| 67 | Calorie restriction can help animals live longer. What about humans? By Jessica Hamzelou | MIT Technology Review | June 20, 2025 | |
| 68 | 407 | Chinese brands are sweeping the world. Good The Economist | June 26, 2025 |
| 69 | The great trade rearrangement By Olivia White et al., | McKinsey Global Insititute | McKinsey & Company | June 25, 2025 | |
| 70 | Namibia wants to build the world’s first hydrogen economy By Jonathan W. Rosen | MIT Technology Review | July-August 2025 issue | |
| 71 | 408 | How A-listers are shaking up the consumer-goods business The Economist | July 3, 2025 |
| 72 | The latest threat from the rise of Chinese manufacturing By David Rotman | MIT Technology Review | July 7, 2025 | |
| 73 | Gen Z is ditching college for ‘more secure’ trade jobs—but building inspectors, electricians and plumbers actually have the worst unemployment By Orianna Rosa Royle | Fortune | July 2, 2025 | |
| 74 | 409 | America cannot dodge the consequences of rising tariffs for ever The Economist | July 9, 2025 |
| 75 | Trade War? No Problem—If You Run a Trade School By Robb Mandelbaum | Bloomberg Businessweek | July 11, 2025 | |
| 76 | Cybersecurity’s global alarm system is breaking down By Matthew King | MIT Technology Review | July 11, 2025 | |
| 77 | 410 | To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model The Economist | July 17, 2025 |
| 78 | Why the US and Europe could lose the race for fusion energy By Daniel F. Brunner et al., | MIT Technology Review | July 8, 2025 | |
| 79 | 411 | The economics of superintelligence The Economist | July 24, 2025 |
| 80 | McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2025 By Lareina Yee et al., | McKinsey & Company | July 22, 2025 | |
| 81 | Will Trade War Make South India the Next Manufacturing Hub? By Dan Strumpf and Ruchi Bhatia | Bloomberg Businessweek | July 8, 2025 | |
| 82 | How sparsely populated Norway amassed $1.8 trillion By Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth | Fortune Magazine | July 30, 2025 | |
| 83 | Chinese universities want students to use more AI, not less By Caiwei Chena | MIT Technology Review | July 28, 2025 | |
| 84 | 412 | South-East Asia makes an AI power grab The Economist | July 29, 2025 |
| 85 | How might tariffs affect the energy transition? By Christian Therkelsen et al., | McKinsey & Company | July 22, 2025 | |
| 86 | The New Third Rail in Silicon Valley: Investing in Chinese AI By Bloomberg Businessweek | August 2025 Issue | |
| 87 | These protocols will help AI agents navigate our messy lives By Peter Hall | MIT Technology Review | August 4, 2025 | |
| 88 | 413 | McKinsey and its peers need a new strategy. And some humility The Economist | August 7, 2025 |
| 89 | Trump-First Foreign Policy Pits the US Against Everybody Else By Wes Kosova | Bloomberg Businessweek | August 7, 2025 | |
| 90 | GPT-5 is here. Now what? By Grace Huckins | MIT Technology Review | August 7, 2025 | |
| 91 | 414 | How AI could create the first one-person unicorn The Economist | August 11, 2025 |
| 92 | The ‘Mega Forces’ Spreading Middle East Wealth Across the Globe By Adveith Nair et al., | Bloomberg Businessweek | August 14, 2025 | |
| 93 | Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys? By Grace Huckins | MIT Technology Review | July-August 2025 Issue | |
| 94 | 415 | Can China cope with a deindustrialised future? The Economist | August 21, 2025 |
| 95 | Meet the early-adopter judges using AI By James O’Donnell | MIT Technology Review | August 11, 2025 | |
| 96 | 416 | How China became an innovation powerhouse The Economist | August 25, 2025 |
| 97 | China Uncertainty Clouds Nvidia’s AI Progress Report By Ian King | Bloomberg Businessweek | August 29, 2025 | |
| 98 | Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening By Johanna M. Costigan MIT Technology Review | Sept-Oct 2025 Issue | |
| 99 | 417 | Schools should banish smartphones from the classroom The Economist | September 3, 2025 |
| 100 | How Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy By James Temple | Bloomberg Businessweek | September 4, 2025 | |
| 101 | Aging Japan is tripling its investments to $6.8 billion a year in a bid to get India’s younger workers By Mari Yamaguchi | Fortune | August 29, 2025 | |
| 102 | 418 | Don’t panic about the global fertility crash The Economist | September 11- 205 |
| 103 | The infrastructure moment By Alastair Green et al., | McKinsey & Company | September 9, 2025 | |
| 104 | Texas banned lab-grown meat. What’s next for the industry? By Casey Crownhart | MIT Technology Review | September 11, 2025 | |
| 105 | Why Billionaires Are Piling Into Prediction Markets By Alicia Park | Forbes | September 15, 2025 | |
| 106 | 419 | China’s 200m gig workers are a warning for the world The Economist | September 18, 2025 |
| 107 | One year of agentic AI: Six lessons from the people doing the work By Lareina Yee et al., | McKinsey & Company | September 12, 2025 | |
| 108 | Challenges Facing Business School Leaders—and What’s Next By Dimitra Kessenides | Bloomberg Businessweek | September 21, 2025 | |
| 109 | AI-designed viruses are here and already killing bacteria By Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review | September 17, 2025 | |
| 110 | 420 | The desperate search for superstar talent The Economist | September 25, 2025 |
| 111 | The FDI shake-up: How foreign direct investment today may shape industry and trade tomorrow By Tiago Devesa | McKinsey & Company | September 22, 2025 | |
| 112 | OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias. By Nilesh Christopher | MIT Technology Review | October 1, 2025 | |
| 113 | The rise of the bro co-CEO By Lila MacLellan | Fortune | October 01, 2025 | |
| 114 | 421 | China is the GOAT of engineering. Right? The Economist | October 2, 2025 |
| 115 | Best Business School Rankings 2025–26 Bloomberg Businessweek | October 2, 2025 | |
| 116 | 422 | Cybercrime is afflicting big business. How to lessen the pain The Economist | October 9, 2025 |
| 117 | AI toys are all the rage in China—and now they’re appearing on shelves in the US too By Caiwei Chen | MIT Technology Review | October 7, 2025 | |
| 118 | 423 | The rich world faces a painful bout of inflation The Economist | October 16, 2025 |
| 119 | China’s Global Network of Shipping Ports Is Too Big for Trump to Unravel By Peter Martin et al., | Bloomberg Businessweek | October 20, 2025 | |
| 120 | 424 | Can AI make the poor world richer? The Economist | October 23, 2025 |
| 121 | The Big Rethink: An agenda for thriving in the agentic age By McKinsey & Company | October 14, 2025 | |
| 122 | Europe’s giants still rule as startups struggle to crack the Fortune 500 Europe By Adam Gale | Fortune | October 29, 2025 | |
| 123 | The race to make the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess By Julia Black | MIT Technology Review | November/December 2025 issue | |
| 124 | 425 | Javier Milei’s chance to transform Argentina and teach the world The Economist | October 29, 2025 |
| 125 | Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, September 2025 By Sven Smit et al., | McKinsey & Company | October 31, 2025 | |
| 126 | 24 AI Startups to Watch in 2026 By Rachel Metz et. al., | Bloomberg Businessweek | October 28, 2025 | |
| 127 | How aging clocks can help us understand why we age—and if we can reverse it By Jessica Hamzelo | MIT Technology Review | October 14, 2025 | |
| 128 | 426 | The rise of singlehood is reshaping the world The Economist | November 6, 2025 |
| 129 | The State of AI: Energy is king, and the US is falling behind By Casey Crownhart and Pilita Clark | MIT Technology Review | November 10, 2025 | |
| 130 | The Chatbot Delusions By Ellen Huet and Rachel Metz | Bloomberg Businessweek | November 7, 2025 | |
| 131 | 427 | How markets could topple the global economy The Economist | November 13, 2025 |
| 132 | The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation By Alex Singla et al., | McKinsey & Company | November 5, 2025 | |
| 133 | Cutting Ties With China Is Harder Than Companies Expected By K Oanh Ha | Bloomberg Businessweek | November 18, 2025 | |
| 134 | The State of AI: How war will be changed forever By Helen Warrell and James O’Donnell | MIT Technology Review | November 17, 2025 | |
| 135 | 428 | Crypto got everything it wanted. Now it’s sinking The Economist | November 18, 2025 |
| 136 | Will Men’s Makeup Ever Go Mainstream? By Joshua Hunt | Bloomberg Businessweek | November 10, 2025 | |
| 137 | Leading amid geopolitical upheaval: Five imperatives for today’s CEOs By Cindy Levy et al., | McKinsey & Company | November 21, 2025 | |
| 138 | Three things to know about the future of electricity By Casey Crownhart | MIT Technology Review | November 20, 2025 | |
| 139 | 429 | What China will dominate next The Economist | November 17, 2025 |
| 140 | The future takes shape: Five dimensions of tomorrow’s wellness economy By Kristi Klitsch Weaver and Stefan Rickert | McKinsey & Company | November 20, 2025 | |
| 141 | The State of AI: Welcome to the economic singularity By David Rotman and Richard Waters | MIT Technology Review | December 1, 2025 | |
| 142 | 430 | Lessons from the frontiers of AI adoption The Economist | December 1st 2025 |
| 143 | India’s Digital Dream, Hacked By Natalie Obiko Pearson and Suparna Sharma | Businessweek | December 5, 2025 | |
| 144 | The era of AI persuasion in elections is about to begin By Tal Feldman and Aneesh Pappu | MIT Technology Review | December 5, 2025 | |
| 145 | 431 | How AI is disrupting shopping The Economist | December 7, 2025 |
| 146 | Look around: Bubbles are everywhere. By Brad Stone | Bloomberg Businessweek | December 17, 2025 | |
| 147 | The great AI hype correction of 2025 By Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review | December 15, 2025 | |
| 148 | 432 | Job apocalypse? Not yet. AI is creating brand new occupations The Economist | December 15, 2025 |
| 149 | Tariffs Unravel India’s Dream of Challenging China in Toymaking By K Oanh Ha | Bloomberg Businessweek | December 23, 2025 | |
| 150 | Why gold went through the roof this year—and why its price may have been raised permanently By Jim Edwards | Fortune | December 24, 2025 | |
| 151 | 433 | OpenAI faces a make-or-break year in 2026 The Economist | December 29, 2025 |
| 152 | What even is the AI bubble? By Alex Heath | MIT Technology Review | December 15, 2025 |
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