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Emma Burleigh

Emma Burleigh is a reporter at Fortune, covering success, careers, entrepreneurship, and personal finance. Before joining the Success desk, she co-authored Fortune’s CHRO Daily newsletter, extensively covering the workplace and the future of jobs. Emma has also written for publications including the Observer and The China Project, publishing long-form stories on culture, entertainment, and geopolitics. She has a joint-master’s degree from New York University in Global Journalism and East Asian Studies.

Lew Frankfort, former CEO of Coach
Success
The CEO who transformed Coach into a luxury powerhouse shares the grueling interview process he uses to vet candidates
By Emma BurleighNovember 10, 2025
Young woman at networking event
Success
Goldman Sachs says we’re not in an AI bubble, and its young multimillionaire clientele are all-in on AI-energy investments and healthcare innovations
By Emma BurleighNovember 9, 2025
Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett
Success
Hundreds of billionaires pledged to give away $600 billion to charity—but the Bill Gates and Warren Buffett era of philanthropy may be over
By Emma BurleighNovember 6, 2025
Kamala Harris says there’s enough room for everyone to be successful—and that professionals who think otherwise are guilty of ‘provincial thinking’
Success
Kamala Harris says there’s enough room for everyone to be successful—and that professionals who think otherwise are guilty of ‘provincial thinking’
By Emma BurleighNovember 6, 2025
Palantir CEO Alex Karp
Success
Palantir says college is no longer a reliable training ground—so it hired 22 high school students instead: ‘Skip the debt. Skip the indoctrination.’
By Emma BurleighNovember 5, 2025
President Trump and Elon Musk
Success
America’s wealthiest billionaires got $698 billion richer this year—and Trump’s tax policy could give them a new windfall
By Emma BurleighNovember 4, 2025
Walmart supervisor leads store employees
Success
Walmart CEO said paying its star managers upwards of $620,000 yearly empowered them to ‘feel like owners’
By Emma BurleighNovember 3, 2025
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman
Success
Reddit’s CEO has just become a billionaire—a staggering 20 years after co-founding the company fresh out of college with $12,000
By Emma BurleighNovember 3, 2025
Nancy Hairston, CEO and founder of MEDCad
Success
This founder went from designing Happy Meal toys to making prosthetic skulls for a living—and her company now rakes in $20 million a year
By Emma BurleighNovember 2, 2025
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
Success
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says employers need to hire Gen Z even if ‘AI can do the interns’ work’—or one day, the bots will outnumber bosses
By Emma BurleighOctober 30, 2025
Left: Apple CEO Tim Cook. Right: Ex-PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi.
Success
The CEOs of Apple, Airbnb, and PepsiCo agree on one thing: life as a business leader is incredibly lonely
By Emma BurleighOctober 29, 2025
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach
Success
CEO of $62 billion software giant Workday’s warning: ‘There’s nothing more dangerous than yesterday’s success’
By Emma BurleighOctober 29, 2025
Gen Z trade workers
Success
Gen Z is leading a blue-collar revolution as more Americans lose faith in college education
By Emma BurleighOctober 29, 2025
Young girl being tutored at home
Success
Wealthy family in New Jersey posts tutoring job for $264,000 a year—complete with 45 days vacation and a guesthouse
By Emma BurleighOctober 28, 2025
Young sad Gen Z graduates
Conferences
The Gen Z job crisis is real: 1.2 million recent grads in the U.K. competed for just 17,000 open roles
By Emma BurleighOctober 28, 2025
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