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"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
"The Myth That Made Us"
Success
How 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'
Success
Why 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
Newsletters
L’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
4 things can make the difference between being happy and miserable as you age
Health
4 things can make the difference between being happy and miserable as you age
By M.T. ConnollyJuly 18, 2023
Taylor Swift
Success
The 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
Retail
Inside 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
Finance
How 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.
Finance
Inside 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.
Success
Welcome to the Flexetariat Revolution: The Nowhere Office is here and the 4-day workweek could be next
By Julia HobsbawmFebruary 19, 2023
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MacKenzie Scott alone accounted for one-third of America's $19.2 billion in megagifts last yearplaceholder alt text
By Sydney LakeJune 25, 2026
Success
Philanthropy leader at Warren Buffett and Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge says children of billionaires are pushing them to give their wealth away fasterplaceholder alt text
By Preston ForeJune 27, 2026
Success
Elon Musk on MacKenzie Scott giving away $26 billion of her fortune: 'Sadly,' it makes the world a worse placeplaceholder alt text
By Sydney LakeJune 29, 2026
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