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- by Gretchen GavettIn the June 8, 2026, edition of The Insider, managing editor Gretchen Gavett highlights the third installment of annual research on how people are really using AI.
- by Anup SrivastavaSome capabilities need to be owned, while others can be acquired. The best leaders know how to make that distinction.
- A conversation with Kayak cofounder Paul English on how better meetings can become a competitive advantage.
- Tim Ferriss shows that entrepreneurial edge doesn’t come from learning; it comes from learning faster than the competition.
- by Tomas Chamorro-PremuzicOld roles are evolving—and new ones are emerging.
- by Shraddha SunilHiring managers need new methods to assess authenticity and competence.
- by Jordan NielsenNew research finds that employees who feel blocked from having impact are more likely to withdraw—and to quit.
- by Adi IgnatiusColumbia Business School professor Rita McGrath previews “The Power of Strategic Centering,” an article from HBR’s upcoming July-August 2026.
- by Abhinav AgrawalCompanies must reconsider what they own and what they buy.
- by Bhaskar ChakravortiA new index of 125 countries reveals where innovation is growing and where it’s stalling out.
- by Yinuo TangOrganizations need a plan to measure, reduce, contract for, and strategically locate their compute.
- by Yuan DingEmerging-market firms are rewriting the rules of global competition.
- A conversation with Tulane University’s Chris Lipp on how to drive impact and influence regardless of where you sit on the org chart.
- by Siddharth BhattacharyaA smartly deployed choice menu can provide viewers, platforms, and advertisers more of what they all want.
- by William DegbeyStop treating interruptions as isolated incidents and start reading them as data.
- by Pierre AzoulayResearchers training in the United States are thinking about working elsewhere. Here’s how American companies should respond.
- by Gretchen GavettIn the June 1, 2026, edition of The Insider, managing editor Gretchen Gavett highlights how leaders can manage their stress responses and a reimagining of SaaS strategies in the age of AI.
- by Chengwei LiuLessons from radiology on how automating output shouldn’t mean eliminating checks and guardrails.
- A conversation with humanitarian leader Kelly T. Clements on spearheading change amid challenging circumstances.
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- by Inc.Building a retail brand from scratch is harder than it looks. However, after transforming her jewelry business into a $1 billion brand, Kendra Scott is sharing her learnings with other entrepreneurs, including the three elements that were crucial to her success. When she started her business, wholesale was key, Scott explained during the Inc. Small Business Week Series. “I didn’t have money for advertising and marketing,” she said. “But Nordstrom, they’re a huge megaphone for my brand. I was in their books or their catalogs. They were doing the marketing for me. And that was driving my direct-to-consumer business or e-commerce business.” Scott […]
- by Josh BlockWhen I became president at 29, it happened over a weekend. On Friday, I was a regional sales rep. On Monday, I was running a $30 million company. There was no five-year training plan. No executive onboarding. No carefully choreographed succession runway. Over the next 15 years, we grew the business from $30 million to more than $230 million and the team from 50 people to 450. At the time, it looked reckless. Looking back, I’m convinced that what seemed like a disadvantage for me was actually an advantage for the company—one a slow, tidy transition could never have produced. […]
- by vsinghJustin McLeod, the founder of Hinge and CEO at Overtone is a modern tech leader who openly acknowledges the emotional weight of building a company centered on human relationships. This is his truth about leadership.
- by Sam BeckerWe’re inundated with data, but for many people, finding a way to make sense of it is elusive. When it comes to health data, however, one company thinks it’s found a way to help—with weekly AI-generated personal podcasts for users that provide them with updates on their latest health and fitness statistics, sleep performance, and more. The podcasts are the latest product offering from Eternal, a health and longevity startup geared toward avid athletes. The company combines various services like body scans and blood work and turns them into personalized reports and readouts.Launched in early 2025 with a $13.25 million […]
- by Kristin ToussaintA sunscreen ingredient that has been used across Europe for decades can now officially come stateside. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized its approval of bemotrizinol, also called BEMT, adding it to the list of permitted active sunscreen ingredients. It marks the first time that the FDA’s list of approved filters has been updated in more than 25 years, since 1999. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) called the change a “landmark decision for public health and consumer protection.” “This is a great day for American consumers and everyone who has fought to improve sunscreen options and close the UVA […]
- by Michael GrothausWhen you think of America’s biggest brands, tech companies like Apple, Google, and Amazon; retailers like Walmart and Target; and food and beverage giants like McDonald’s and Starbucks usually come to mind. But every year, those established brands also face the risk of being upended by smaller, faster-growing upstarts. Now, the crowd-sourced review platform Yelp has published its annual list of the fastest-growing brands in America. Here are the top 10 brands Yelp says are growing the fastest across the country. Starbucks competitor 7 Brew leads the list According to Yelp’s data, the fastest-growing brand in America in 2026 is […]
- by Taylor HatmakerWe know the planet is getting hotter, but some of the grim details about what exactly that means for humanity remain a mystery. Researchers are racing to peer into the not-too-distant future of the climate crisis to better prepare us for the worst-case scenarios to come. A new climate study published on Tuesday found that by 2040, overwhelming urban heat and spiking temperatures in the U.S. could double the number of people hospitalized with heat-related illnesses (HRIs). Using advanced modeling, the researchers predicted that HRIs could result in 217,000 hospitalizations by 2040 in a low-emissions scenario and as many as […]
- by Jude CramerWhat’s new for Scooby-Doo? Being played by a real dog. In Netflix’s upcoming live-action series Scooby-Doo: Origins, the iconic mystery-solving dog will—for the first time in the franchise’s 57-year history—be portrayed by an actual dog rather than being animated. Scooby-Doo and the rest of the Mystery Incorporated crew—Daphne, Fred, Velma, and Shaggy—are most often portrayed in animation, including 14 cartoon TV series and 43 animated movies (made-for-TV, theatrical, and direct-to-video releases). But even in previous live-action adaptations of Scooby-Doo, including 2002’s Scooby-Doo and its 2004 sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, the titular dog has remained an animated character surrounded by […]
- by vsinghEmmy Award-winning producer Halle Stanford founded 7 Crow Stories with a passion for storytelling and a mission to create meaningful series that enchant and empower audiences. Under her leadership, 7 Crow Stories has developed and sold content to some of the world’s leading networks and studios, including Netflix, Apple TV+, YouTube, Nickelodeon, and the Disney Channel
- by María José Gutiérrez ChávezThe world’s greatest and most influential poets can be found in the annals of history—and now in a viral Kalshi interview. The New York Knicks are in the NBA finals for the first time since 1999, a feat that has elated the city and turned its streets the hues of its home team. But it’s not just the team’s orange-and-blue colorway that is uniting New Yorkers across the five boroughs. It’s a viral fan chant: My mayor MuslimMy bagel’s JewishMy Christian DiorKnicks in four The bars were dropped by Jamaica, Queens, native MD Ahnaf Hossain following the Knicks’ Game 1 […]
- by Associated PressAnother sell-off for high-flying artificial-intelligence stocks is dragging Wall Street sharply lower on Tuesday. The S&P 500 dropped 1.7% after careening between an early gain of 1% and a loss of 2.3%, sinking further from its all-time high set a week ago. The Nasdaq composite was 2.9% lower, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 408 points, or 0.8%, as of 1 p.m. Eastern time. Indexes swung lower as companies selling computer chips, memory and other building blocks of the AI boom broke from early gains to losses. Micron Technology went from a jump of 4.2% to a drop of 7.6%, for example. That’s […]
- by Mark SullivanAnthropic on Tuesday released Claude Fable 5, a public, guardrailed version of its vaunted “Mythos” AI model. The AI startup said Claude Fable 5 is more capable than any other model it has released to the public, showing outstanding performance in software engineering, knowledge work, and vision tasks, among other areas. The model is superior to earlier iterations in performing longer, more complex tasks. The analytics company Hex said that Fable 5 was the first model to break 90% on its core benchmark of complex, long-running analytical tasks–a 10-point jump over earlier Opus models. Claude Fable 5 scored 80.3% on […]
- by Chris MorrisThe AI IPO rush is here. With OpenAI’s announcement late Monday that it had confidentially filed for an IPO, the three biggest AI companies are all in line to go public. (And a fourth, Perplexity, will likely bring up the rear in 2028.) It’s something that has been looming for a long while on Wall Street. Now, though, investors will have to decide if the era of the Mega-IPOs is too much of a good thing. SpaceX is asking Wall Street for about $75 billion. Anthropic and OpenAI may seek a bit less, but it still will almost certainly be […]
- by Associated PressThe Pentagon has added several prominent Chinese businesses, including the tech giant Alibaba, electric car maker BYD and search engine Baidu, to its list of Chinese military companies, preventing them from getting U.S. defense contracts.The list, updated and published Monday by the Pentagon, now sanctions well-known, non-state-owned Chinese companies that are not traditionally considered to be in the defense or security sector. It reflects growing wariness of Beijing’s strategy of tapping the strength of non-state businesses for military purposes.Created in 2021 by a congressional mandate, the list seeks to identify Chinese companies that the Pentagon considers to have links to […]
- by vsinghDelta’s Chief Sustainability Officer Amelia DeLuca focuses on environmental leadership, technology innovation, and organizational change to make Delta’s operations more sustainable while supporting the airline’s long-term growth. This is her truth about leadership.
- by Associated PressTeddy Roosevelt boxed. Richard Nixon bowled.Dwight D. Eisenhower put in a putting green. George H.W. Bush added a horseshoe pit. Herbert Hoover played a game named for himself to get more exercise, while George W. Bush threw open the space for youth T-ball.The White House and its storied South Lawn are no strangers to sporting events. But they’ve never seen anything like the UFC bout President Donald Trump is hosting to celebrate his 80th birthday on Sunday or the eight-sided, wire-mesh cage complete with an open overhead dome featuring large screens that are surrounded by thousands of arena seats.Sometimes called […]
- by Morra Aarons-MeleWe don’t often talk about love at work, but we should. I do not mean romantic love. A mentor of mine, Dr. Ken Ginsburg, a pediatrician and one of the nation’s leading experts on positive youth development, describes this kind of love as loving kindness—human respect for each other and the desire to lift each other up. If we could practice this with each other at work, the world would be a different place. Loving someone means seeing who they truly are and celebrating who they are. And the only way we can do this effectively is if we love […]
- by Kristin ToussaintMore than a year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the landscape of the country’s robust public data collection and publishing infrastructure has deteriorated. Federal reports on everything from billion-dollar climate disasters to food insecurity have been scrapped; thousands of workers involved in government data collection have lost their jobs. USAFacts, the not-for-profit focused on making government data more accessible and understandable, has been reacting in real time. And now, its new president Lauren Woodman, who took the helm on April 20, is looking to empower voters ahead of the midterms to call for better data infrastructure to inform genuinely impactful […]
- by Max UfbergFormlabs wants to make industrial 3D printing feel less like industrial 3D printing. The company has spent more than a decade building printers that make professional-grade prototyping cheaper and faster. With the Fuse X1, Formlabs is applying that playbook to larger industrial systems, where price, installation, and day-to-day operation have often kept the technology out of reach for smaller manufacturers and engineering teams. [Photo: Formlabs] The new machine is a selective laser sintering (SLS) printer built for manufacturers, engineering teams, product developers, and 3D printing service bureaus. The printer can turn out production-quality parts in less than 24 hours. (It […]
- by Laëtitia VitaudThere’s a concept in user experience design called designing for the extreme user. The idea is simple: if you build a product that works for the most demanding, most constrained user, it will work well for everyone else too. Curb cuts, designed for wheelchair users, turned out to benefit cyclists, parents with strollers, delivery workers, and elderly pedestrians. Closed captions, designed for deaf viewers, became indispensable in gyms, airports, and open offices. Companies spend millions optimizing for their “average” employee. But who is that person, exactly? In most cases, the mental default is someone without significant caregiving constraints, implicitly or […]
- Are you ready to join the AI leaders? AI is everywhere. But ROI isn't. PwC's new AI performance study reveals that a small set of top-performing companies–the AI leaders–are already translating AI into real ROI.
- The company's Global President for AI Infrastructure, Nidhi Chappell, describes how demand for data centers is pushing the industry to find new ways to build, scale, and perform at new levels.
- In an interview with strategy+business, Zahid Salman, president and chief executive officer of Canadian insurer GreenShield, describes how the nonprofit is tapping into digital strategies and the larger healthcare ecosystem to evolve into a payer-provider at scale.
- Cambridge economist Michael Pollitt calls for global cooperation and innovative technologies to tackle challenges in decarbonization and enhance energy resilience.
- Confidence is down. Pressure is up. In this episode of our Take on Tomorrow podcast, we are on the ground in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, and we ask what it takes to lead with agility in the age of AI.
- CEOs are reinventing their companies with technology and seeking growth opportunities in new sectors, even as they see elevated threats ahead.
- Our global food system is unsustainable, and its practices are inflexible, inefficient, and inequitable. The December issue of s+b explores why it doesn't have to be.
- Customer service is feeling different–and AI may be why. In this episode of our Take on Tomorrow podcast, we explain how AI is reshaping customer interactions and changing how businesses support their workforc
- Could government be the next great innovator? In this episode of our Take on Tomorrow podcast, we explain why public and private collaboration could unlock new solutions in energy, healthcare, climate and mor
- Building the world's digital backbone takes trillions of dollars. In this episode of our Take on Tomorrow podcast, we explain how innovative financing is driving the global data-center boom–and enabling the infrastructure that powers A
- Feeding a growing population in the decade ahead will require bold innovation and new partnerships–so what's emerging? In this episode of our Take on Tomorrow podcast, we explain how humanity can completely reimagine food.
- Mobility is changing–and it's bigger than just cars. In this episode of our Take on Tomorrow podcast, we explore how electric vehicles, automation and new tech are transforming the way we move people and goods.
- Healthcare is being reimagined. In this episode of our Take on Tomorrow podcast, we explore how technology, collaboration and patient-first thinking are transforming the future of healthcare.
- Rory McDonald, an expert in disruptive strategy, urges corporate leaders to learn from startups–and even preschoolers–as they seek to reinvent their organizations.
- Kubernetesisaplatformthathelpscompaniesmanagecontainerizedsoftwareapplicationsefficientlyandsecurely.
- Hybridcloudandmulticloudareflexiblestrategiesthatallowbusinessestoselectthebestcloudsolutionforeachworkloadorapplication.
- AdatameshownershipframeworkcombinedwithdatafabricarchitecturecanhelpcompaniesmanagethemassiveamountsofdataneededtoenableAI.
- MaxHarris,groupheadofstrategyandsustainabilityatAssociatedBritishPorts,seesaleadingroleintheindustrialenergytransitionfortheUK'slargestportsoperator.
- In Episode 4 of Voices in Tech, ABP's Max Harris talks about how ports are bringing together industrial players and climate tech start-ups to drive the energy transition in hard-to-abate sectors. We also hear from PwC's Shreekumar Rakshit about industrial climate tech investment trends on the heels of the publication of the firm's annual State of Climate Tech report.
- As artificial intelligence evolves, how can we ensure transparency and accountability? Matt Wood, PwC's Global and US Commercial Technology & Innovation Officer, discusses the challenges and opportunities of building confidence in agentic AI.
