Leadership
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Zoom is giving away $150K to ‘solopreneurs’ with no strings attached—as 33 million workers ditch corporate to become their own boss
As AI threatens to wipe out jobs, the American dream—stable employment, a clear ladder to climb, and a company to grow old with—is quietly dying. More people are ditching the 9-to-5to build something of their own. And Zoom is putting $150,000 behind the movement. The $26 billion video conferencing giant is giving away $30,000 each…
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Bard College president steps down, months after his deep ties to Jeffrey Epstein were revealed
The longtime president of Bard College announced his retirement Friday, months after it was revealed that he had a much deeper relationship with Jeffrey Epstein than was previously known. Leon Botstein, who has been president of the small, liberal arts college inn New York for a half century, will retire at the end of June,…
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Suze Orman once said earning more than $800,000 would make her ‘sick to my stomach’—but that turning down Oprah Winfrey cured her self-doubt
Today, Suze Orman may be known as the confident, no-nonsense, financial powerhouse that she is—but she wasn’t always that way. It was the late 1990s and with one hugely successful book already under her belt, publishing houses were fighting for the contract of her next best-seller. The bidding war for publishing rights to The 9…
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CEO writes hundreds of thank you notes to staff and still eats in the break room—which ‘always, for whatever reason, blows new employees away’
In an era of AI avatars and digital overload, something as simple as a handwritten note can feel like a relic of the past. In fact, many Gen Zers can’t even read cursive. But for First Watch CEO Chris Tomasso, old-fashioned notes of appreciation are a ritual. The leader of the over $1 billion-a-year in…
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Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman built a program to teach young leaders about China. It’s harder to get into than Harvard
Steve Schwarzman has spent his career on Wall Street—but he’s also been on a quieter quest on the other side of the globe, a decades-long journey to understanding China. That brought him, in late April, to the New Tsinghua Xuetan, the circular, brick-hued auditorium at Tsinghua University in Beijing, an architectural wonder that resembles a…
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Billionaires have a problem money can’t solve: They don’t know how to talk to their kids
The scene lasts about 30 seconds but communicates a lifetime of ultrawealthy dysfunction. Roman Roy, desperate to impress his aging father, announces with pride that he’s bought Hearts of Midlothian, one of Edinburgh’s two great football clubs, for his father, the swaggering Scottish-born media billionaire Logan Roy. The other Edinburgh club, though, also starts with…
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Forget Big Tech: Small businesses will hire nearly 1 million grads in 2026—and some of the hottest roles are gloriously AI-proof
While fresh-faced grads are throwing their hats in the ring for a job at the world’s biggest companies, they could have a good shot at small businesses ramping up hiring. And some of the jobs that they’re recruiting the most for could stand the test of time in the AI revolution. About 974,000 recent graduates…
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MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce
Companies betting against entry-level Gen Z talent by automating their roles may be making a costly long-term mistake. That’s the warning from MIT research scientist Andrew McAfee, who co-leads the school’s Initiative on the Digital Economy. Cutting off talent at its source, he argued, doesn’t just shrink today’s workforce—it disrupts the pipeline that produces tomorrow’s…
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Marriott CEO on why you have to defend both DEI and ICE’s right to a hotel room: Dictating values is a ‘bad place for the country’
When Tony Capuano’s daughter called to tell him he was going viral on TikTok, he knew exactly why. “I pray the only time in my life that my daughter calls me and says, ‘Dad, you’re viral on TikTok’ came from this conference,” the Marriott International CEO said, speaking with Fortune at the Great Place to…
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Aerie built a $2 billion brand by rejecting Victoria’s Secret’s old playbook. Now it wants to win the AI backlash.
A few years into her time overseeing American Eagle’s Aerie division, Jennifer Foyle felt the loungewear and intimate apparel brand needed to stake a flag in the ground to stand out in a crowded sector. It was 2014, at the twilight of Victoria’s Secret’s cultural dominance before a consumer backlash against unrealistic supermodel-led body standards…