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Bob Iger, Marc Benioff, and the billion-dollar deal that never was: The untold story of Disney’s battle for Twitter
Tech
Bob Iger, Marc Benioff, and the billion-dollar deal that never was: The untold story of Disney’s battle for Twitter
By Kurt WagnerFebruary 21, 2024
Perfect 10
Success
RE/MAX founder’s first real-estate sale: After 6 months of trying and failing, a chance encounter at the grocery store and 5 deals in 48 hours
By Dave LinigerFebruary 14, 2024
Minotaur at the mall
Finance
The Cassandra of ‘technofeudalism’ on capitalism’s ‘global minotaur phase’ of titanic deficits, debts and gambles
By Yanis VaroufakisFebruary 11, 2024
Pandora's Box
Lifestyle
Inside ‘Pandora’s Box’: Legendary cultural critic Peter Biskind reveals how ‘the Netflix Effect’ ate Hollywood from the inside 
By Peter BiskindDecember 26, 2023
LeBron James
Success
LeBron James opens up on bringing a school to his Ohio hometown: ‘When you’re not from here, it’s hard to get a grasp on it but we get overlooked all the time’
By Amy SchillerDecember 8, 2023
The Economic Government of the World
Finance
From the Great Depression to the Great Financial Crisis and beyond—Nearly 100 years of ‘The Economic Government of the World’
By Martin DauntonNovember 17, 2023
The Geek Way
Tech
What Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jeff Bezos all have in common, MIT professor says: They were all Montessori school students
By Andrew McAfeeNovember 14, 2023
Kevin Woodson
Success
Racial Discomfort: The hidden reasons why so many Black workers leave elite law firms, banks, and consulting firms
By Kevin WoodsonNovember 13, 2023
Ray Dalio "The Fund"
Finance
Billionaire Ray Dalio’s firing of a future Fortune 500 CEO revealed: Larry Culp dared to criticize ‘The Principles’ that ran the world’s largest hedge fund
By Rob CopelandNovember 11, 2023
Genius of Israel
Tech
‘The Genius of Israel’ book excerpt: A vibrant economy and tech sector with roots in regular military service
By Dan Senor and Saul SingerNovember 5, 2023
"A Theory of Everyone"
Lifestyle
How Estonia ripped up its school plans just 5 years after breaking from Russia and became the top country in math, science, and reading outside Asia
By Michael MuthukrishnaOctober 31, 2023
Panera founder says launching a company is like an addiction: ‘You don’t own the business. The business owns you’
Success
Panera founder says launching a company is like an addiction: ‘You don’t own the business. The business owns you’
By Ron ShaichOctober 27, 2023
Rajiv Shah
Success
Bill Gates, 2 golden chairs and a Parisian Palace: The head of the Rockefeller Foundation on the quest to vaccinate the world’s children
By Rajiv J. ShahOctober 12, 2023
Digital culture guru Taylor Lorenz’s new book reveals how the Instagram influencer ‘floodgates’ really opened: a backfiring FTC crackdown
Success
Digital culture guru Taylor Lorenz’s new book reveals how the Instagram influencer ‘floodgates’ really opened: a backfiring FTC crackdown
By Taylor LorenzOctober 4, 2023
Mathias Döpfner
Finance
An 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
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