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AI is changing how junior employees gain essential professional experience. Business Quarter examines the implications for career development and leadership pipelines, with insights from mthree, h2h, and HGS Europe.
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Businesses are seeking certainty ahead of today’s pivotal Autumn Budget. With investment plans weak, employers want relief on operating costs, predictable taxation, and practical support for growth.
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Dario Amodei has captured attention with his warnings about AI. In this Business Quarter profile, his leadership decisions at Anthropic are equally consequential — shaping how the technology giant balances commercial ambition with safety and accountability.
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Consumers are demanding more than familiar symbols of corporate sustainability. New research suggests authenticity, visible processes, and recognisably human creative are becoming more important as brands try to turn environmental claims into credible communications.
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July’s European deal market rewarded scale, infrastructure, and operational depth. Five major transactions showed buyers paying substantial premiums for established networks, recurring revenue, specialist technology, and market positions that would take years to recreate.
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Youth skills policy increasingly depends on combining AI and judgement. World Youth Skills Day arrives as more than one million young people remain outside employment, education, or training.
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June’s US dealmaking concentrated around AI, platforms, infrastructure, and pipelines. SpaceX, Fox, Martin Marietta, Merck, and AbbVie led a month in which buyers paid for scarce routes to capability, scale, customer access, and future growth.
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June’s UK dealmaking became a sharper contest over listed-company value. Prologis, EQT, Castlelake, Ingredion, and Bridgepoint shaped a month of foreign approaches, take-private pressure, strategic consolidation, and outbound expansion, with boards testing whether public-market discounts should translate into control.
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Burnham’s devolution pitch has drawn cautious support from business leaders. Entrepreneurs and technology executives welcomed his focus on business rates, skills, and regional growth, but warned that delivery will depend on practical policy, local capacity, and digital infrastructure.
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Employment reform is reaching rotas, payroll, and manager decisions. The UK’s Employment Rights Act 2025 will test workforce planning, absence management, manager capability, and productivity in organisations that have relied on informal flexibility.