Steve theyre doing it as they recognize that the shortterm in china kind of remains with policy adjustments, but theyre borrowing from their future. Jason more on that conversation later on. Lets begin with the cover story. Its all about General Motors. The ceo is eyeing a tech future, but her most pressing issue right now, she has a lot of workers on strike. Carol . She does and thats one of the deep dives into wellknown Global Companies in this weeks issue. Heres joel weber. Joel maybe youve heard of them, going through a bit of a labor strike right now, with a strike for strike in 12 years. But theres a bigger story. Thats what our cover story is about. Jason why now . Better to be lucky than smart, maybe, but youre very smart to deep dive, but nobody saw this coming. Joel we did a couple weeks ago. But is not about the strike. It provides a convenient news hook. We talk about strategies a lot and this is a strategy, a ceo trying to pivot her business and her Business Model and staf
Carol welcome to Bloomberg Businessweek. Im carol massar. Jason and im jason kelly. We are here inside bloomberg headquarters in new york. Carol this week, turkey launches a major offensive in syria, and President Trump says the United States will not stand in the way. The surprise announcement heard around the world, and the not so surprising winner in all of this. Jason plus, vaping closer to home. How juul took on big tobacco and is caught in the middle of a Huge Public Health crisis. Carol and aramcos mega ipo is finally set to go. Jason first, here is joel webber on this weeks issue and the cover story, tesla and the complicated ethics of autopilot. Joel thats right. We all like the idea of driverless cars. It seems like the future, right . But how do we get there . Basically, tesla is in the middle of this grand experiment with autopilot, which is viewed viewed as a stepping stone to driverless cars. But there is this big ethical dilemma. This cover story is an ethics course of h
Carol plus, a defiant Boris Johnson dragged back to parliament to explain why he broke the law. We take a look at what a hard brexit might look like. President trumps political future among the topics front at center at bloombergs forum in new york. When you added together, i think what it leads to is not a recession, but a slow down growth globally, which is what we are experiencing. Carol more on that ahead. First up, here is editor joel weber on this weeks cover story. Code. Lds in the age of this is one of the hallmarks of businessweek, these strategy stories that we sometimes do. It is a look at how mcdonalds has been thriving for the past five years or so. Share price keeps going up under the ceo. In the past six months, he has really doubled down on tech. Carol that is something that i did not realize. He has made a bunch of acquisitions in ai, Voice Recognition technologies. Earlier this month was his latest. What we are seeing is mcdonalds transitioning from being a Fast Food
Surprising winner in all this. Jason plus, vaping. Closer to home. How juul took on big tobacco and is caught in the middle of a Huge Public Health crisis. O isl and aramcos mega ip finally set to go. Jason first, here is joel webber on this weeks issue and the cover story, tesla and the complicated ethics of autopilot. Joel thats right. We all like the idea of driverless cars. It seems like the future, right . But how do we get there . Basically, tesla is in the middle of this grand experiment with autopilot, which is viewed as a steppingstone to driverless cars. But there is this big ethical dilemma. This cover story is an ethics course of how do we get there . Tesla is already doing this in real time with autopilot, and other companies have been not quite as bold as what tesla has chosen to do. Carol joel, dilemma is right. The more miles we get on the road with something, the better. There is so much data involved in making this better. But in the interim, youre going to lose some
Jason plus, vaping closer to home. How juul took on big tobacco and is caught in the middle of a Huge Public Health crisis. Carol and aramcos mega ipo is finally set to go. Jason first, here is joel webber on this weeks issue and the cover story, tesla and the complicated ethics of autopilot. Joel thats right. We all like the idea of driverless cars. It seems like the future, right . But how do we get there . Basically, tesla is in the middle of this grand experiment with autopilot, which is viewed towed as a stepping stone driverless cars. But there is this big ethical dilemma. This cover story is an ethics course of how do we get there . Tesla is already doing this in real time with autopilot, and other companies have been not quite as bold as what tesla has chosen to do. Carol joel, dilemma is right. The more miles we get on the road with something, the better. There is so much data involved in making this better, but in the interim, youre going to lose some lives. Joel thats right,