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Co-founders urged to agree ‘pre-nups’ with their partners

Conflicts over strategy and management can kill a company




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Retraining the labour force is the ‘challenge of our times’

Acquiring new skills for a changing employment market is becoming essential




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‘Green’ schemes range from books to bikes

These FT Future 100 UK businesses are building sustainability into their model




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Five decades, 25 films — Nigel Andrews’ favourites

From ‘Raging Bull’ to ‘Spirited Away’, the FT’s outgoing film critic picks his top movies




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Greta Gerwig’s Little Women is vibrant, sardonic and out­rageously gorgeous

Saoirse Ronan shines as the tomboyish lead sister in this adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel — with sly feminist subtexts




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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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The other 5G: leading a five-generation workforce

Executive education courses are teaching how to manage multigenerational teams 




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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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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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Host countries struggle to cope with Venezuela refugee crisis

Colombia seeks $1bn in funds as UN aid appeal falls well short of target




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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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Venezuela: refugee crisis tests Colombia’s stability

With the exodus set to continue, the strains on Bogotá and other governments are set to intensify




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Facebook recruits great and good for a chance at change

Appointments including former PM and Nobel laureate suggest turn toward establishment




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BingeWatch: Rick and Morty is space comedy fuelled by booze and snark

With new episodes launching today, now is the perfect time to revel in the cruel humour of the hit cartoon




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Saudi Aramco raises $25.6bn in world’s biggest IPO

State-owned oil company’s $1.7tn valuation falls short of kingdom’s ambitions




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Lebanon’s economic crisis requires an urgent decision on IMF aid

The country is trapped in a full-scale emergency that could unravel social bonds




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Iran embarks on biggest IPO as economy struggles

Sale of shares in state-run holding company generates income for government




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Cash-rich Gulf funds hunt for bargains as asset prices plunge

Saudi Arabia’s PIF has snapped up stakes in a cruise operator, oil groups and a football club




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Farmers’ protests pose challenge to Argentina’s new president

Alberto Fernández seeks to bolster state coffers with tax raid on country’s most powerful industry




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Saudi Aramco slashes spending as oil price war rages

Capital expenditure expected to fall 23% at state energy company




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PPE cottage industry comes to health workers’ rescue

Grassroots manufacturers overcome lack of machinery, materials and supply chain experience




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UK pledges extra funds for businesses that share office space

Government to provide £617m to plug gaps in rescue package based on business rates system




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Sleaze and racism in Netflix’s Hollywood take shine off ‘golden age’

New period drama about an aspiring actor pulls back the curtain on postwar Tinseltown




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Rising High — a raucous German comedy of real estate fraud

Berlin’s property boom is the setting for Cüneyt Kaya’s film




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Ema is a humdinger of a film from Chilean director Pablo Larraín

A woman’s life unravels spectacularly in this wildly original movie




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Mr Klein — Joseph Losey’s lost classic re-emerges

Alain Delon stars in this existential thriller, set in Nazi-occupied Paris




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Danish outsourcer ISS plunges on cut outlook

Shares drop to record low as chief admits company is ‘overstretched’




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Royal Mail warning on UK business triggers share slide

Postal services group says unit could slump to loss next year with revamp ‘behind schedule’




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De La Rue shares plunge on warning about its future

UK group points to ‘material uncertainty’ if a turnround plan does not tackle debt pile




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World’s largest caterer Compass scales back on signs of global weakness

Group to shrink operations in Europe, Japan, and Brazil




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UK’s Leading Management Consultants 2020

The consultancies most recommended by clients and peers, rated by sector and specialism. Plus: millennial professionals’ search for meaning; weighing consultants’ worth; the conflict of interest debate; a call for courage on diversity; HS2 blurs consultancy lines; Brexit and fees




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Covid-19 and the generational divide

My household’s Corona Protocol has provoked eye-rolling from my two teenage children  




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Getting used to a groundhog day epidemic

We need to get acclimatised to repetition. Many of us have not internalised the arduous road ahead




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The golden age of Jared Kushner

President’s son-in-law embodies everything that is wrong with America’s coronavirus response




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Big Tech can no longer be allowed to police itself

Companies are able to fan the flames of fake news and also to remove it




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Election test for Macri’s promise to make Argentina ‘normal’ again

Legislative poll will be a referendum on the reformist president




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Trump rule change set to revive US savings product

Some experts say variable annuities are too complicated and offer a poor deal for consumers 




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Lyft sues New York City to halt minimum wage law

Mayor Bill de Blasio calls legal action ‘unconscionable’




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DoJ must make antitrust fit for the age of Big Tech

Competition law should take changing business models into account




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Twitter boss shows the limits of ‘management by absence’

When leaders take on more than one job, others will question their focus and commitment




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Middle managers: the unsung heroes of this crisis

Managers need to communicate and connect with staff, and convey they are all in the same boat




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Covid-19 lays bare managers’ efficiency obsession

The pandemic will prompt new rules insisting on better margins for error and will embed more safety-first habits




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Lockdown diary of a London Tube manager: ‘The hardest thing is not knowing which customers have coronavirus’

In this FT series people share their stories of this extraordinary time




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Let’s get Broxit done

Reflections and revelations from a year of politics — direct from a spinney in the English countryside where the annual badger summit took place




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Hedge with an edge: the best species to plant now

Here are choices to help you think outside the box (bush), avoid blight and encourage sustainability




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Growing vegetables can be a lifeline in the coronavirus crisis

Easy tomatoes, beans and lettuce to sow or plug in the garden or on a patio




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EU-led coronavirus funding drive nears initial €7.5bn target

Pledging conference underscores urgency to develop vaccine and distribute it worldwide




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Nightingale hospitals largely empty as NHS weathers the storm

Facilities were launched with a fanfare but medics complain they lack equipment for complex Covid-19 cases 




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Obesity dangers make Covid-19 a rebuke to unequal societies

Excess body fat seems to matter more than heart or lung disease, or smoking, when it comes to catching the virus