Leadership
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Occidental Petroleum’s CEO transition puts a spotlight on the foreign post advantage
Occidental Petroleum’s next chief executive began his career far from the Houston headquarters. On May 1, Occidental announced that COO Richard Jackson will succeed Vicki Hollub as CEO upon her retirement in June. Hollub, who became CEO in 2016, was the first woman to lead a major U.S. oil company, a landmark appointment in an
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He started as a part-time Starbucks barista at 17. Now he’s an exec designing the menu
For most people, a part-time barista job while studying is a means to an end: something to top up their bank account and pad their résumé before landing a “real” job. Sam Henderson thought the same when a friend convinced him to apply for a role at a Starbucks in Leicester, U.K., at 17. He
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Diary of a CEO founder says he hired someone with ‘zero’ work experience because she ‘thanked the security guard by name’ before the interview
Job-seekers may believe that an Ivy League degree or Fortune 500 work experience will land them a gig—but who they thank while walking into an interview could be more important than their professional pedigree. Steven Bartlett, the founder and host of The Diary of a CEO podcast, took a chance on an applicant with a
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Trump wants to cut federal loans from college programs that don’t pay off. College cosmetology, fine arts, and music programs are at risk
Colleges and universities may soon have to give students a blunt warning: some of their programs might not pay off. Earlier this month, the Department of Education proposed a new rule that would cut off federal student loan access to college programs whose students earn too little after they graduate. For undergraduate programs, those diploma
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Eventbrite CEO sold her company for $500 million—without a job for the first time since 15, she’s playing chess with a robot and eyeing internships
Twenty years ago, Julia Hartz ditched a budding career at MTV and FX, drove up the coast of California, and bootstrapped ticketing platform Eventbrite with her two cofounders. Now, the longtime CEO wakes up to a blank outlook calendar; Hartz sold her company in a $500 million exit, and is deciding on her next chapter
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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