Profit pilot

In 2005, BP was No. 2 on the Fortune Global 500 and was carving out a role as an early adapter to the green energy transition. Now there’s speculation about whether the struggling $85 billion supermajor will survive as a freestanding company.

Companies in the news and how they were assessed

Out of puff: Second-quarter revenue at Connecticut-based Marlboro-maker Philip Morris International (PMI) rose 7.1% from a year earlier, to $10.1bn – slightly short of analysts’ expectations of $10.3b

Accenture’s CEO has quietly built the consulting company into a go-to expert on mastering AI. But can she save her industry from being replaced by robots?

Top companies are increasingly being headed by people of Indian descent. What makes them so successful?

Tesla posted one its sharpest year-on-year declines in revenue, with boss Elon Musk warning that the trend is set to continue through what is expected to be one of the most challenging periods in the