Leadership
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff turned his earnings call into a vodcast. Why other Fortune 500 CEOs might follow
All the world’s a stage. Now that’s even true of the usually dull quarterly earnings call. In February, Salesforce founder and co-CEO Marc Benioff turned his routine fourth-quarter earnings call into an influencer-style production. Clad in a black leather jacket and seated high above San Francisco in the Salesforce Tower, Benioff streamed his financial updates
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Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong replacing ‘pure managers’ with ‘player-coaches’ is another sign the org chart is changing in a big way
On Tuesday, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced he was laying off 14% of the company’s workforce—just under 700 people — and turning the company’s org chart upside down. Out went what Armstrong calls “pure managers.” In came “player-coaches,” flat hierarchies capped at five layers, and “AI-native pods” that could include one-person teams directing agents that
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America 250 Chair: Americans are giving less. July 4th can be a day to change that
Charitable giving, once a defining feature of American life, is quietly slipping out of fashion. In recent years, the share of Americans who donate to charity has fallen sharply. Two decades ago, roughly two-thirds of US households gave to charitable causes. Today, it’s closer to half. Among the ultra-wealthy, there is a new and growing
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Tokyo is throwing out its strict office dress code and asking workers to wear shorts amid the war in Iran energy crisis
As the summer rolls in, many dreams of jet-setting vacations are being dashed as fuel prices spike during the ongoing war in Iran. But it’s not the only way people are pivoting—workers in Japan are even being asked to ditch the slacks and opt for bare-legged attire at the office. The Tokyo metropolitan government recently
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GameStop’s billionaire CEO is an entrepreneur without a college degree who cofounded Chewy. Now he has his sights set on buying eBay for $56 billion
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is a billionaire entrepreneur who is known for taking big risks. Yet, his biggest challenge may be his attempt to revive the struggling gaming retail chain. With GameStop’s unsolicited $56 billion offer to buy eBay this week, Cohen, who has an estimated net worth of $5 billion, has once again been
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Gen Z workers say showing up 10 minutes late to work is as good as on time—but baby boomer bosses have zero tolerance for tardiness, research reveals
Chances are, how you feel about running 10 minutes late at work is a good indicator of how old you are. While it may be a sign of disrespect among baby boomers, Gen Zers don’t see the big deal. In fact, according to 2024 research, the youngest generation of workers believes 10 minutes late is
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‘Did we learn nothing?’ Synchrony is hybrid, the Best Company to Work For, and puzzled by the return-to-office push
Synchrony is the country’s largest provider of store credit cards, and a stalwart member of Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For list. The company just claimed the No. 1 spot, rising from No. 37 just five years ago, and marking its ninth consecutive year on the list. It is the first financial services firm to
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GameStop wants to buy eBay for $56 billion. Wall Street has one big question
It’s easy to see why GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen wants to get his hands on eBay so much that the company is offering $56 billion to buy the e-commerce player at a 20% premium. Cohen made the unsolicited offer for eBay, which is multiple times larger than GameStop by both revenue and market capitalization, over
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Investors endorse Greg Abel—even as Berkshire crowd thins without Buffett as CEO. ‘This was definitely the meeting with the deepest insights’
At Greg Abel’s first annual meeting as Berkshire Hathaway CEO this weekend, the arena was about half as full and the tone was more business-focused—but by and large, investors gave the new CEO a thumbs up. After 60 years as CEO of the conglomerate which owns everything from Dairy Queen to insurer Geico, Warren Buffett
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Hugh Jackman advises new grads that the most powerful career cues are ‘often disguised as failure’
You can be an Oscar-nominated actor; the face of one of the most prolific and highest-grossing action-movie series in history; a well-regarded theater actor and all-around social do-gooder—and still suffer from imposter syndrome. For college graduates, wide-eyed and uncertain of their futures, Hugh Jackman has some comforting words: you’re going to fail, and you’re going