RIM restructures

Boardroom in motion

The co-chief executives of RIM, maker of the BlackBerry, are stepping down. The company's shareholders probably wish that they had done so a long time ago(3)

China and innovation

Brain gain

Why America is wrong to fear Asian innovation(16)

Where are the world's most innovative companies and what do they do? (Nov 2011)(123)
American web firms are battling foreign hordes that look remarkably similar (Aug 2011)(19)
Huawei: The long march of the invisible Mr Ren (Jun 2011)(53)
Schumpeter: Beware of judging China’s innovation engine by the standards of Silicon Valley (May 2011)(45)

A special report on state capitalism

The visible hand

The crisis of Western liberal capitalism has coincided with the rise of a powerful new form of state capitalism in emerging markets(124)

American banks

Losing altitude

Lenders can cheer for their own survival, and not much else(3)

The euro-zone crisis

Volunteers wanted

Greece’s creditors would all have to take a massive hit to right its finances(45)

Apple and digital publishing

A textbook manoeuvre

The tech firm unveils new software meant to disrupt educational publishing(53)

Business Books Quarterly

Setting a price on the future: The mathematics of markets

The formula that changed finance(22)

Kodak files for bankruptcy protection

Gone in a flash

No firm, however strong, can count on continued success: market dominance is only a snapshot in time(24)

Insider trading

Seven down, many more to go

American prosecutors are trying to scare hedge funds into good behaviour(35)

Natural disasters

Counting the cost of calamities

Death rates from natural disasters are falling; and fears that they have become more common are misplaced. But their economic cost is rising relentlessly(15)