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Mathias Döpfner
FinanceAn encounter with Vladimir Putin and a visit to the Kremlin months after an editor’s murder: Media CEO Mathias Döpfner’s painful lesson on how to stop doing business with dictators
By Mathias DöpfnerSeptember 19, 2023
"The Myth That Made Us"
SuccessHow a Federal Reserve veteran learned after 25 years about ‘The Myth’: The system is rigged and hard work is no predictor of success
By Jeff FuhrerSeptember 15, 2023
Mauro Guillen's 'The Perennials'
SuccessWhy the ‘navel-gazing’ marketing industry has fallen for the trap of targeting 29-year-olds—and older ‘perennials’ are the key to booming sales
By Mauro F. GuillénAugust 21, 2023
Woman wearing red clothing, sitting in a chair and smiling
NewslettersL’Oréal’s CHRO was used to being away from her kids for business travel. Returning to the office was another story
By Stephanie Kramer and Joey AbramsJuly 20, 2023
Health4 things can make the difference between being happy and miserable as you age
By M.T. ConnollyJuly 18, 2023
Taylor Swift
SuccessThe man who named the millennial generation 32 years ago returns to find them full of FOMO, riddled with fears—and a lot like their icon Taylor Swift
By Neil HoweJuly 18, 2023
PillPack CEO TJ Parker
RetailInside Walmart and Amazon’s race to buy hot health care startup PillPack—and how Walmart let it slip away
By Jason Del ReyJune 13, 2023
Chaos Kings
FinanceHow Wall Street’s ‘Chaos Kings’ learned to thrive amid the great bond massacre of the 1994—and the Black Swan was born
By Scott PattersonJune 13, 2023
Photo illustration of a cityscape in the sky made out of $100 bills coming loose from a series of ropes that are holding it down.
FinanceInside Silicon Valley’s dream of capitalism untethered from democracy
By Quinn SlobodianApril 4, 2023
Ginni Rometty
Success‘That’s not right’: Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty on how she protected trans workers after 2016
By Ginni RomettyMarch 7, 2023
Photo illustration of a woman working on a laptop at a desk over top of a pattern of world maps that are getting smaller.
SuccessWelcome to the Flexetariat Revolution: The Nowhere Office is here and the 4-day workweek could be next
By Julia HobsbawmFebruary 19, 2023
Photo illustration of three fists raised in protest overlaid with archival images of etchings of pirates.
SuccessThe Black Death spawned the ‘crew culture’ that gave rise to pirates, mercenaries—and eventually labor unions
By James BelichJanuary 22, 2023
Walmart leadership
LeadershipInside the Walmart board room when they finally raised wages—and how Wall Street rebelled
By Rick WartzmanNovember 15, 2022
LifestyleInside the life and work of an American artist and photographer in Provence
By Jamie BeckNovember 8, 2022
FinanceNouriel Roubini has ‘no beef with getting older,’ but thinks the world’s failure to have enough children will end ‘centuries of social progress’
By Nouriel RoubiniNovember 6, 2022
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