Leadership
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How the company behind Coach and Kate Spade decides what belongs in its portfolio
The lines between the CFO and COO are increasingly blurring. Scott Roe sits squarely at that intersection at Tapestry, the parent company of Coach and Kate Spade, and (until its recent sale) Stuart Weitzman, overseeing both capital allocation and day-to-day operations. His dual role suggests how Tapestry thinks about strategy: investing in the portfolio and…
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Apple’s next CEO will oversee a $4 trillion tech giant, but isn’t on LinkedIn. Can today’s leaders still skip social media?
Apple’s incoming CEO doesn’t have a single post on his LinkedIn feed, and his profile is nearly blank. John Ternus, Apple’s hardware chief and a longtime company veteran, is set to take the reins of one of the world’s most admired companies on Sept. 1, succeeding Tim Cook. The outgoing CEO will become executive chairman…
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Despite return-to-office-crackdowns, remote work is alive and well as the rate has barely changed over the last two years
For more than a year, Corporate America has projected confidence that remote work was nearing its end. Amazon ordered employees back to the office five days a week last year. Meanwhile CEOs like JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and Tesla’s Elon Musk have repeatedly criticized work-from-home. Yet despite the headlines, the American workplace has barely changed. Nearly…
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He used to work 90-hour weeks and lost ‘years’ of his life. Now the US Polo Assn. CEO clocks off at 5:30 p.m. and won’t text his team on weekends
The average CEO pulls 62-hour workweeks—around 10 hours a day plus a few more on the weekend. And they’re even at it on holiday. For workers, it can mean a steady stream of out-of-hours demands, whether they’re on duty or not. But after losing “years” of his life to overworking, you won’t catch U.S. Polo’s…
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A quarter of young baby boomers and Gen Xers who’ve been laid off in the last decade are still unemployed—and 11% have taken pay cuts to work
Americans want to work longer to support themselves as the cost of living climbs and 401(k) benefits are further delayed, but many older Gen X workers and young boomers are being forced into retirement after being laid off with no jobs to turn to. Among U.S. citizens between the ages of 50 and 65, 14%…
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Three dads started selling hats from a garage with $750—now they’ve sold $35 million worth, partnered with Gary Vee, and grown a community of fathers
Back in 2022, Bart Szaniewski, Grant Eastey, and Ejay O’Donnell were reluctant to admit it, but fatherhood had hit them harder than expected. There were the sleepless nights and tighter budgets—but also something larger they hadn’t anticipated: how isolating fatherhood could feel. Moms had books, Facebook groups, and communities built around parenting. Dads were more…
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Even as Elon Musk calls philanthropy ‘very hard,’ every day Americans gave a record $617 billion—despite feeling the squeeze over the cost of living
2025 brought a mixed picture for the U.S. economy. The stock market ended the year with double-digit gains, but inflation had not fully faded—leaving prices for everyday essentials like groceries and utilities elevated and many households still feeling squeezed. Still, many Americans found room in their budget to give to others. U.S. charitable giving reached…
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YouTube’s founders split over $650 million when they sold to Google in 2006—had they held out, they could have taken a slice of $550 billion
YouTube sold to Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion, with cofounders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen splitting over $650 million worth of stock shares. And while their wealth increased exponentially with the acquisition, estimates put today’s value of YouTube at $550 billion—a 333x increase. Few could imagine YouTube’s eventual media dominance at the time, making…
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‘It’s just his AI and my AI going back and forth’: The workplace phenomenon that’s undermining human relationships
Stop if you’ve heard this one before: An employee received a message from her boss and didn’t quite understand its meaning. Suspecting it was written by AI, the employee asked her AI tool to interpret the message. The AI responded and then asked if she wanted a draft response back to her boss. The employee…
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Airbnb offered $750 to Americans to open up their homes during the World Cup—mostly women took it up and now they’re earning thousands
Fans from around the world and North America have descended upon the continent’s host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, filling up stadiums, hotels, and increasingly, local homes. As the first week of the knockout rounds comes to a close, the soccer frenzy is translating into a short-term rental boom, with locals cashing in…