How broadcast rights became the most valuable asset in professional sport
Live sport is one of the few things audiences still watch together and in real time. That makes the rights to show it unusually prized, and unusually hard to price.
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How companies are redrawing their supply chains
Efficiency once trumped everything. Now businesses are paying for resilience — and discovering how hard it is to buy.
How translated fiction finds its readers
A novel's journey into another language depends on a small chain of enthusiasts: scouts, translators, editors and booksellers willing to take a chance.
The economics of subscribing to everything
From software to cars, companies want recurring revenue. Customers are starting to count the cost.
Inside the slow, careful world of fact-checking
How museums decide what to put on the wall — and what stays in storage
How to read a company's cash-flow statement — the account that is hardest to dress up
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Video: how companies map their supply chains
Tracing every supplier behind a product is harder than it sounds. A visual guide to the process.
