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A CEO for all seasons
C-Suite‘It’s always better to drink wine a year early than a day too late’: McKinsey’s CEO whisperers on successfully transitioning out of the top job
By Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, Vikram Malhotra and Kurt StrovinkOctober 7, 2025
Praise
Future of Work‘We need pre-meetings to prepare for big meetings’: Why remote work is making your day longer, more transactional and more annoying
By Peter Cappelli and Ranya NehmehOctober 2, 2025
Jim Cramer
InvestingJim Cramer: The case of Nvidia, the stock I loved so much in 2017 that I named my dog after it
By Jim CramerOctober 1, 2025
Snickers
SuccessWhy Snickers still satisfies: trigger-based marketing
By MichaelAaron Flicker and Richard ShottonSeptember 30, 2025
John Malone, Rupert Murdoch
SuccessJohn Malone on his long friendship with Rupert Murdoch: He was a gentleman, even when I blindsided him by suddenly raising my News Corp. stake to 17%
By John MaloneSeptember 20, 2025
Cars
North AmericaFrom freedom to constraint: How cars boxed in American life
By Henrietta Moore and Arthur KaySeptember 16, 2025
Dirtbag Billionaire
EnvironmentHow Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard decided to give away his billions
By David GellesSeptember 9, 2025
LeadershipRay Dalio on AI: ‘The days of people making decisions in their own heads are ending’
By Ray DalioJune 3, 2025
LeadershipBarry Diller admits he underestimated Steve Jobs and reveals one of the ‘most powerful epiphanies of my life’
By Barry DillerMay 20, 2025
Father using laptop at home with children watching - stock photo
Life8 signs your work-life balance is in poor health—and how to fix it
By Judith JosephApril 10, 2025
CommentaryJapan’s currency was one of the first challengers to the U.S. dollar—why 90s predictions of a ‘yen bloc’ fell apart
By Paul BlusteinMarch 21, 2025
TechHow Paul Allen and Bill Gates landed on the idea for Microsoft after cycling through many other startup ideas
By Bill GatesFebruary 4, 2025
"The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong," by John Kay.
LeadershipTrump 2.0 will see corporations tempted by shareholder primacy even more. Sustainable success still comes from broader goals
By John KayJanuary 15, 2025
CommentaryQuasi-religious beliefs have ended 200 years of European growth, author argues
By Jon MoynihanDecember 3, 2024
Ashton Kutcher and David Sacks
FinanceHow celebrities became VCs and VCs became celebrities  
By Tatiana KoffmanNovember 7, 2024
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