How to Lead With Confidence in a Fast Changing World
As the pandemic reshaped the world, Zoom quickly scaled to support remote work, growing from 10 million to 300 million daily users. Shopify empowered small businesses to thrive through e-commerce, ...
How Baked by Melissa’s Founder Turned a Viral Salad Recipe Into A New Revenue Stream
TikTok fame transformed Melissa Ben-Ishay’s mini cupcake business. Melissa Ben-Ishay was late to the Instagram game. Though she and her brother founded mini cupcake brand Baked by Melissa in 2008—two ...
Want to Make a Great First Impression? Science Says Avoid the Novelty Penalty
New isn't always better. Research shows people prefer familiar narratives, especially when they are easy to understand and relate to.
The Holmes Effect Still Stings for a Generation of Female Founders
Elizabeth Holmes is in prison for defrauding investors. Women entrepreneurs still say they can’t shake her bad blood.
One of the World’s Largest Architecture Firms Offers a Blueprint for Successful Co-Leadership
Elizabeth Brink and Jordan Goldstein of Gensler explain how they work as co-CEOs, and how shared leadership helps make the firm move faster.
He Sold His Company for More Than $100 Million in 2024. Here’s His Advice for Every CEO
Joe Hyrkin, former CEO of the digital media company Issuu, shares his best advice for business owners contemplating a sale.
How LBJ’s Great Society Program Drove American Innovation
President Lyndon Baines Johnson showed how governments can drive innovation.  It starts with social safety nets.
United Airlines Just Shared a Surprising Customer Insight, and I Had to Think Through Whether It’s Depressing or Inspiring
Regardless, it’s encouraging to think that adventure, independence – and maybe even increased corporate travel budgets – account for the trends here instead of less-savory trends, like leftover ...
Neuroscientists Just Discovered How Sleep Washes Toxic Gunk Out of Your Brain
Scientists first came up with the hypothesis that certain pulsing brain wave patterns that occur during sleep might be physically washing accumulated waste products out of your brain several years ago ...
Trump Cuts Hit FDA Employees in Tobacco, Food Safety and Medical Devices
FDA inspectors are responsible for overseeing thousands of food, drug, tobacco and medical device facilities worldwide, though the AP reported last year that the agency faced a backlog of roughly ...
Despite Trump’s Vilification, CFPB Seen as Hero by Many
Conservatives have long branded CFPB a power-hungry agency that goes beyond its authority, a viewpoint made clear in the sweeping far-right vision for the U.S. known as Project 2025, which called the ...
NAACP Encourages Spending at Companies That Didn’t Ditch DEI
The NAACP says the spending guide it published is needed because DEI initiatives promote the social and economic advancement of Black Americans, who are projected to consume nearly $2 trillion in ...