The global fast track

Companies in the news ...and how they were assessed

Privacy pioneer In March, Meredith Whittaker, president of encrypted messaging app Signal, learned about the Trump Administration’s Signal-gate scandal from a group chat. Slack-jawed, she read the Atl

The social becomes political TikTok—Gen Z’s most popular social media platform, famed for zany dance routines and crooning pets and helmed by CEO Shou Zi Chew (above)—has long faced a possible U.S. ba

Kia wasn’t broken when Ho Sung Song took over as president and CEO in 2020, but he has still managed to fix it. He has transformed Kia’s product range, introducing many segment-best electric cars that

Luca de Meo is stepping down as CEO of the Renault Group after five years and will take charge at Kering, the French company that owns luxury goods brands such as Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. The Ita

NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL MARK RUTTE KEEPS A VARIETY of mementos in his office. There is a sprawling photograph of the North Sea from the vantage point of his hometown in the Netherlands, a kanji gift fr