Leadership
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Teen boys are dating their AI chatbots—and experts warn opting out of real relationships could hurt their careers in the future
Gen Z dated strategically—dating people 25% more attractive and successful than them to climb the social ladder. Gen Alpha, it seems, has decided the whole thing is too much effort. Instead, teen boys are quietly swapping first dates, awkward silences, and emotional guesswork for an AI girlfriend who never cancels, never argues, and always texts
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Poppi’s cofounder pitched her startup on Shark Tank while 9 months pregnant and landed a $400,000 deal—now it’s worth $2 billion
When Poppi cofounder Allison Ellsworth pitched her business with her husband on Shark Tank in 2018, she was nervous, excited—and about to have a baby. “I was nine months pregnant, so there was the ‘Hey, don’t go into labor on national TV,’” Ellsworth told Fortune. Ellsworth, 38, originally brewed up the first iterations of what
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Emma Grede says her $5 billion Skims empire started with a cold call to Kris Jenner: ‘The difference between me and someone else is I made it happen’
You’ve probably heard of the British Entrepreneur Emma Grede because of Skims, the $5 billion shapewear company she runs with Kim Kardashian. She’s also invested in other brands with the family, such as the cleaning products company Safely and Kylie Jenner’s clothing line, Khy. And the growing empire can all be traced back to one
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‘The college grading system [is] almost meaningless’: People see the Ivy League as an easy A and with flawed admissions standards
Higher education is mired in a PR crisis. Since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has targeted the nation’s most elite institutions, including the Ivy League. The cracks first appeared during campus protests over the war in Gaza, throwing the leadership lapses and internal tensions of colleges and universities into clear view.
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The CEO of Nissan manages his stress by playing the drums in his band and hitting tennis on the weekends
Stress comes with the territory of being at the helm of billion-dollar corporations—so CEOs are turning to personal rituals and deliberate routines to stay sharp and avoid burnout. Ivan Espinosa, the CEO of Japanese the $8.5 billion car giant Nissan, decompresses from the job by jamming out with his band and hitting the tennis courts
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German workers take more than a day off work sick, every single month—so now the government is stepping in and proposing to cut their pay for it
Most people have called in sick at least once. But in Germany, workers have been taking more than one day off sick every month for the past year—and the government has had enough. Now, it’s proposing to dock workers’ wages. German workers take an average of 14.8 sick days per year, giving the country one
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This CEO pirated video games as a teen and became a hacker for the Air Force. Now he’s built a $3 billion cyber firm
In today’s uncertain job market, Gen Z keeps hearing the same advice: don’t map out your whole career now, just follow your instincts and trust that salary and stability will follow. Kyle Hanslovan is proof that can actually work—just not in the way one might expect. Now the CEO of Huntress, a cybersecurity firm valued
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This CEO has teamed up with Google, Microsoft, and McKinsey to build an AI degree that could rival Harvard—and it will only cost $10,000 to attend
As millions of young people weigh what comes after high school—whether that’s a traditional college degree, a skilled trade program, or skipping higher education altogether—a new option will soon enter the mix. Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, announced this week the launch of the Khan TED Institute, a joint venture with
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A $24 billion Dutch lender is cutting its workforce—and to get the remaining staff on board, the CEO is having sandwiches with them
The $24 billion Dutch bank ABN Amro is cutting a fifth of its workforce over the next three years—so how is its CEO Marguerite Bérard rallying the troops? By sacrificing her long meals and talking over the growing pains with staffers over weekly lunches. “I now take lunch early and at my desk,” Bérard told
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The org chart isn’t ready: How AI exposed the hidden crisis inside the American corporation
Something is breaking inside the American corporation. Not the balance sheet, not the brand, not the technology stack — those are mostly fine. What’s breaking is harder to see on a slide deck and harder to fix with a budget line: the unwritten rules, shared assumptions, and organizational muscle memory that tell people how to