Leadership
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Delta’s CEO spent 15 years turning the airline into a premium brand. Now it commands 20% more per seat than rivals
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian has never wavered in his commitment the same bet: that Americans will pay more for a better experience in the sky. Fifteen years in, the strategy is paying off. The airline now commands roughly 20% more revenue per seat than its competitors, and premium cabin revenue is on the
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Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav’s ‘extraordinary’ $887 million golden parachute gets ripped by proxy advisory firm ISS
An advisory firm that counsels the largest institutional investors on how to vote at shareholder meetings is recommending investors support Warner Bros. Discovery’s $77.7 billion acquisition by Paramount Skydance but is against a golden-parachute proposal that would see executives collect a total of $1.35 billion after the deal goes through. In a report issued on
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Self-made billionaire MrBeast says his work-life balance is nonexistent and calls it a ‘miracle’ if he works less than 15 hour days: ‘I live to work’
Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, has spent the past decade climbing to the top of online content. Now one of the most popular creators in the world, he boasts a record 476 million subscribers on YouTube alone—fueled by increasingly extreme stunts from spending a week living in a cave to even being buried in
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Housing is so expensive, even a $87 billion Wall Street bank is giving workers $6.5K in cash to get on the property ladder
American workers are up against a housing crisis so dire that many have written off their dream of homeownership altogether. Now, one Wall Street employer is stepping in to help their wish come true with thousand-dollar payouts. The oldest bank in the U.S, $87 billion financial services firm Bank of New York (BNY), has just
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H&R Block wants to be more than a tax company. It wants to be your year-round financial adviser
Curtis Campbell knows exactly what kind of company people think H&R Block is. It is the place you go in late winter or early spring when your W-2s, 1099s, deductions, and deadlines are piling up, your refund feels urgent, and your anxiety is rising. It is familiar, local, and useful, but not the kind of
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The megamanager era: AI is doubling bosses’ workloads—and the costs are just beginning to show
The average American manager now oversees 12 direct reports, and the data suggest AI is both the cause and the justification for this quiet but seismic shift in how the U.S. workplace is organized. It is one of the starkest structural changes in the modern American office, and it is happening with relatively little public
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Only 22% of people felt their jobs were safe in 2025—manufacturers, warehouse workers, and women are the most scared
The labor market is growing more uncertain: companies are laying off staffers in droves, job openings have screeched to a halt, and unemployment has been ticking up. It’s left very few workers confident that their livelihoods are on solid ground. Only 22% of workers globally strongly agreed that their jobs were safe from elimination in
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Artemis II’s astronauts are on their way home—a six-figure salary but no overtime or hazard pay awaits them back on Earth
All eyes were on the Artemis II astronauts yesterday as they made history looping around the far side of the moon and traveling further into space than any humans ever. But as the crew—three Americans, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen—heads back to Earth, there’s no financial windfall
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MacKenzie Scott’s latest donation takes her HBCU giving to well over $1 billion
MacKenzie Scott has continued her giving spree to historically Black colleges and universities, and this time she’s crossed a milestone. One of the billionaire philanthropist’s latest gifts, a $42 million donation to Elizabeth City State University on the school’s Founders Day in North Carolina, pushes her total giving to HBCUs well past the $1 billion
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MacKenzie Scott rewrote the rules of philanthropy. Who will follow her lead?
The next wave of philanthropic courage is overdue. We need the next billionaire—or board of trustees—brave enough to say: we don’t need another five-year strategy to fix inequity. We just need to fund the people solving it right now. While MacKenzie Scott has moved billions, the silence from corporate America and traditional philanthropy is deafening. Diversity