THE RICH AND FAMOUS are just like us, celebrity gossip magazines love to tell you. When it comes to Silicon Valley’s billionaires, though, they are acting a lot more like your politics-obsessed uncle. With a blizzard of tweets, blog posts, public co

THE GLITZY OPRAH WINFREY–HOSTED “Unite for America” Zoom event Sept. 19 featured the corps d’elite of entertainment, government, and business, as well as the woman being feted herself: Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. The event brought

INSIDE MANY AMAZON warehouses are workers known as “water spiders,” who pick up and move the numerous plastic storage bins used to shuttle goods around the facility, and who restock worker stations with merchandise, boxes, and other material. At a wa

FOR CENTURIES, JAPANESE BUSINESS HAS BEEN RENOWNED for its adherence to traditions and customs. Today, however, a new generation of female executives is shaking up the boardroom to encourage more women into the workforce and promote diversity. In a n

HENRY V had Agincourt. Gen. Robert E. Lee had Gettysburg. And Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has Chandler. That would be Chandler, Ariz., outside Phoenix, where Intel is investing nearly $30 billion to build two state-of-the-art semiconductor plants, or fab

TESHIMA CORPORATION IS A COMPANY STEEPED IN Japanese business traditions, such as hard work and high quality control. However, the stainless steel tubing firm best known for its needle products is also providing a forward-thinking example of how thin

WHEN MY BONOBOS cofounder, Brian Spaly, and I had a falling-out in 2009, two years after starting the company, we made a strange decision. We decided that we would share the details of how our partnership fell apart with the community where our frien

FOR ONE nonprofit executive director, it was a 2022 New York City subway shooting that highlighted the stark differences between how he, a 55-year-old, and his Gen Z staffers show up to work. “We had an employee who lived a mile from where it happene

IN CANADA, MORE THAN 20% OF PEOPLE do not have a family doctor, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal. For underserved communities, the lack of access to providers is compounded by high costs and long wait times to receive vital treat

THE WAIT IS OVER. After more than a year of will-they-or-won’t-they, the Federal Reserve on Sept. 18 announced the first cut to its benchmark Federal funds rate since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a 50-basis-point drop that Chairman Jerome

AS GENERATIVE AI TRANSFORMS ENTIRE SECTORS, blind spots in the AI revolution are becoming clearer. One glaring issue is that women are hugely underrepresented in AI roles. More broadly, research from the University of Chicago shows that women are usi

THE SUN is pouring in through the floor-to-ceiling windows when the bar begins to fill with bespoke suits on a Tuesday in August at Four Twenty Five. The new restaurant from Jean-Georges Vongerichten is on the first floor of a Midtown Manhattan skysc

IN JULY, Cathy Engelbert walked onto the court at Phoenix’s Footprint Center, beaming before the crowd of 18,000 that watched the WNBA All-Star Game. The WNBA commissioner was not-so-secretly thrilled that Team WNBA—which bore her league’s name—notch

IT WAS A SUNNY AUGUST MORNING when software entrepreneur Mike Lynch, 59, gathered nine of his closest friends, along with his wife and daughter, on the dock of Porto di Milazzo, on the northern coast of Sicily. They had come to celebrate his freedom.

IN NOVEMBER 1996, Joe Bae had been working at buyout shop Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. for six weeks as an analyst doing spadework on deals when Scott Nuttall, another recruit, moved into the office next door. Both Bae and Nuttall, who had each work

GOLF HAS BEEN BOOMING IN POPULARITY. ON THE COURSE, new players are teeing off in record numbers, and off the course, millions of diverse viewers are tuning in to watch their favorite professionals compete. This recent wave of golf enthusiasts has he