Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Meet the Most Important Company You’ve Never Heard Of

It doesn't matter how complex your industry is: If you don't know how to make great, competitive products, you're in trouble.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. loves itself some chips. 

Photographer: I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg

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Big, global collisions are always about power and often about money. Politics, religion, nationalism and ego play their parts, of course. But money — and how money gets made — goes a long way toward explaining things.