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Michael Edwardes, industrialist, 1930-2019

A forceful challenger of union power at British Leyland




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Scale-ups prioritised in UK productivity drive

Government emphasis on high growth enterprises has intensified, but results are mixed




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Corporate leaders ride the innovation wave

From heritage to healthcare, via regenerating the city centre, local business is ‘recognising its strengths’




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Derby’s industrious architecture celebrates old and new

Eye-catching locations around the city exemplify its modern ambition




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Motherless Brooklyn — Edward Norton directs and stars in a bloated crime thriller

The actor plays a detective with Tourette’s syndrome in this 1950s-set film




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Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville star in cancer drama Ordinary Love

This hospital saga is gripping, well acted and sometimes harrowing




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The Cave is a blistering documentary about a Syrian hospital

The doctor at the heart of this film shows dauntless compassion




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So Long, My Son is an intricately tragic drama set in China’s one-child era

Wang Xiaoshuai’s wonderfully acted film is an epic of love and loss




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Shia LaBeouf’s childhood is re-enacted in the manic tragicomedy Honey Boy

An autobiographical movie that strips bare the actor’s early years




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Citizen K — Mikhail Khodorkovsky documentary paints the dissident as a saint

Alex Gibney’s film portrays its subject as all but flawless. Can that be right?




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The Kingmaker — up close with Imelda Marcos, spendthrift superdiva

Lauren Greenfield’s documentary about the Philippines’ former First Lady is comic as well as horrific




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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is fun and fantastic (in parts)

There’s swashbuckling and explosions, but Adam Driver is the real star of the ninth and final film in the Skywalker saga




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Style triumphs over content in Long Day’s Journey into Night

Chinese film-maker Bi Gan’s movie slips into a beautiful, bewildering netherworld




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La Dolce Vita — a timely return for Fellini’s caustic classic

The director’s satire on consumerist culture shines through in this sparkling new print




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Spies in Disguise — Will Smith and Tom Holland save the planet, if not the movie

Fun though it may be, this collection of out-takes is never quite the sum of its parts




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Federico Fellini at 100 and the myth of realism

Nigel Andrews on how the Italian auteur abandoned neorealism for something looser and more fantastical




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From Psycho to Parasite: why the basement is cinema’s scariest location

Ever since I was knee-high to Nosferatu, I have loved steps and stairs on screen




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The five best mass-infection movies — and two new odes to endurance

War films 1917 and the upcoming Painted Bird are the latest entries in a sub-genre driven by relentless adversity and survival




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Shopify surges as retailers rush online

Shares at Canadian ecommerce group hit high as revenues jump 47%




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Tech losers can win longer term

Uber cuts 3,700 staff, Libra’s first CEO, Microsoft Surface surfeit




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NHS tracing app in question as experts assess Google-Apple model

Swiss firm hired to test mainstream software despite launch of go-it-alone system




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Twitter failing to curb misinformation ‘superspreaders’, report warns

Posts from high-profile accounts found to be promoting questionable virus therapies and cures




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UK starts to build second contact tracing app

NHS team is told to build alternative on system being developed by Apple and Google




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Schools scramble to meet demand for online MBAs

Flexibility and lower fees appeal — but not all providers are competing on price




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Will online MBAs boost diversity in business schools?

Ease of access and (sometimes) greater affordability are attracting a broader demographic




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Decision time: should I study online or on campus?

Would-be students need to consider the trade-off between flexibility and networking




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Mini-courses pave the way to a full MBA

Online learning modules boost students’ academic confidence and business knowhow




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Financial Times Online MBA directory 2020

Find out which schools are offering distance-learning post-graduate business degrees




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Coronavirus accelerates switch to online MBAs

Online courses grow while future of campus-based qualifications is questioned




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Grappling with the high turnover of deans

There is a limited pool of candidates to fill what has become a complex leadership role




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Students flock to study quant finance in record numbers

Enrollees from India and China make up a third of intake




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AI in education will help us understand how we think

Robot teachers are the start of an evolving relationship with artificial intelligence




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Remote teaching becomes vital during virus outbreak

Universities and business schools are facing unprecedented challenges across the world




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How remote study is changing business school life

The coronavirus crisis has created new ways to learn and collaborate




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Are you graduating in 2020? We want to hear from you

Tell us how graduating into a pandemic economy is affecting you personally and professionally




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The executive education courses tackling burnout

Growing understanding of the costs and fading stigma is driving demand 




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The other 5G: leading a five-generation workforce

Executive education courses are teaching how to manage multigenerational teams 




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Jesuits on a mission left legacy of living happily

Hidden paradise blossomed for 150 years until settlements overrun by plunderers




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Horacio Cartes has eye on smoking out business potential

Controversial cigarette tycoon and ex-president still wields influence




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Investing in Paraguay

In recent years, landlocked Paraguay has developed into South America’s star economy, with growth rates that are the envy of the region. We assess its business, political, diplomatic and social prospects and, not least, its pending and sensitive renegotiation with neighbouring Brazil of the treaty concerning the huge Itaipú dam




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White men run 98% of finance. Will philanthropy help?

Time wasted is time lost, says the Kresge Foundation as it makes a public pledge




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Vatican may ordain married priests in remote areas

Reform continues under Pope Francis with South American summit tackling shortage of clergy




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Guatemala and US in talks over safe third-country status

Plans for asylum seekers come despite state department advice to ‘reconsider travel’ due to crime




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US shifts strategy in effort to dislodge Maduro

International talks may be only way to break impasse




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Guaidó delegation draws protests at OAS meeting

Divisions in regional group show how Venezuelan crisis is stoking tensions in the Americas




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Overseas earnings trigger Trump tussle with Central America

White House threatens to use remittances from US as leverage in migration dispute




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Poverty, priests and politics: why Peronism is back in Argentina

As ‘slum priests’ try to fill the gap left by the state, the populist movement is on the rise again




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Latin America faces a second ‘lost decade’

From Chile to Bolivia, revolts against leaders from left and right have root causes in stagnant growth and weak investment




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Colombians take to the streets in countrywide protests

Marches come as discontent grows over labour reform, pensions and corruption




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Bolsonaro defies coronavirus to rally against Congress

Brazilian president criticised for rubbing elbows with crowds while awaiting second virus test results