Business Spotlight

29/12/2025

Entrepreneur Lucy Guo’s wealth has skyrocketed in recent years — but despite this, she says her “life pre-money and post-money, it hasn’t really changed that much.” Read more about the billionaire in the current issue of Business Spotlight.

VOCABULARY
📌 billionaire: Milliardär(in)

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24/12/2025

From all of us at Business Spotlight, we want to wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

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23/12/2025

Do you know the Christmas carol “12 days of Christmas”? In it, the singer lists 12 extravagant gifts for their “true love” to be given over the 12 days of Christmas. Today, those 12 presents would cost $49,263 to give, the American bank PNC estimated.

VOCABULARY
📌 Christmas carol: Weihnachtslied

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22/12/2025

Do you think small talk is important in business? Our editors do. Find out why by listening to our audio roundtable!

Small Talk – das Eis brechen, nicht die sozialen Normen! In der folgenden Diskussionsrunde teilen die Redakteurinnen und Redakteure von Business Spotlight ihre Gedanken über Icebreaker und dem anschließenden Small Talk.

19/12/2025

Hopefully you won’t be spending too much time crunching numbers in the run-up to Christmas, but it’s a useful to know...

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17/12/2025

Have you noticed that AI-generated images can be biased? Researching more than 5,000 text-to-image AI pictures, journalists at Bloomberg found that image sets for high-paying jobs predominantly showed individuals with lighter skin tones, while darker-skinned individuals were more frequently associated with prompts like “fast-food worker” or “social worker”. There are things you can do to minimize bias, however — read more in our article.

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16/12/2025

Have you heard this term before? A survey by BetterUp in 2025 estimated the monthly cost of correcting such mistakes at $186 per employee.

VOCABULARY
📌 survey: Umfrage

15/12/2025

Did you know that Lucy Guo overtook Taylor Swift to become the world’s youngest female self-made billionaire? Test your comprehension skills in our exercise on the businesswoman!

Lesen Sie den folgenden Artikel über Lucy Guo, die jüngste Selfmade-Milliardärin der Welt, und bearbeiten Sie anschließend die Übungen unten.

14/12/2025

Will keeping your desk tidy be a New Year’s resolution? Practise the vocabulary of decluttering in our exercises!

Plus:
🇨🇭 Learn about Switzerland
👩‍💼 CEO compensation
💸 Comprehension exercise on Lucy Guo , the world’s youngest female self-made billionaire

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13/12/2025

Small talk is more than just idle chit-chat. It can help business partners to feel at ease, and can help you learn about their motivations. Listen to our roundtable to find out how small talk can help you at work!

Plus:
👩🏽‍💼 Should CEOs really earn so much?
🔋 How to talk about renewable energy
🖥️ Why AI bias is a problem for us all

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12/12/2025

Introductory rounds where everyone has to share a fun fact about themselves are seldom popular. In the new issue of Business Spotlight, we present some alternatives that help break the ice — and give tips on what you could say if you do have to share a fun fact with those present.



Plus:
🖥️ Researchers are working to make AI fairer – but users can also contribute
🤫 NDAs at work
🛒 ALDI USA

11/12/2025

The “performative male” – a new male archetype trending on TikTok – tries to make a positive impression on others, especially women. The performative male may, for example, drink matcha lattes and read “chick lit” to signal that he is the opposite of toxic or macho, and to attract progressive women.

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GLOSSARY:
📌 trend: im Trend liegen
📌 chick lit (ifml.): (anspruchslose) Frauenliteratur

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