This 160,000-year-old school can unlock a skill code we need to supercharge...
Matt Beane is an assistant professor in the technology management department at UC Santa Barbara and a digital fellow with Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab. His research focuses on building skills in a...
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Kohler’s unusual trick to spur innovation: let artists use the factory
Artist David Franklin was sitting on a tree stump in rural Washington state when he answered a phone call that would change his life. In the early 2010s, Franklin was having difficulty finding...
View Article4 key lessons about leadership transitions from President Biden passing the...
In life, work, and leadership succession, things rarely go to plan, and the ability to pivot during transitions differentiates those who capitalize on the moment from those who falter and retreat....
View ArticleOne outcome of the Great Wealth Transfer is set to change everything for...
Here at Ellevest, we’re thinking a lot about what the “Feminization of Wealth” can mean. And, honestly, it’s pretty great stuff. What is the “Feminization of Wealth,” you may be asking? It’s a term...
View ArticleHere’s how to get Apple Intelligence on your iPhone today before iOS 18...
If you’re excited to get your hands on Apple’s new generative AI platform, known as Apple Intelligence, I have some good news and some bad news for you. First, the bad news: Apple Intelligence, the...
View Article‘We need them home’: Native American tribes are still waiting to get sacred...
Tucked within the expansive Native American halls of the American Museum of Natural History is a diminutive wooden doll that holds a sacred place among the tribes whose territories once included...
View ArticleHow an offshore electric power grid could solve the transmission lines...
Strong offshore winds have the potential to supply coastlines with massive, consistent flows of clean electricity. One study estimates offshore wind farms could meet 11 times the projected global...
View ArticleHow the real Olivia Pope would have handled the CrowdStrike outage
Judy Smith is a crisis manager whose career was the inspiration for the TV show Scandal—specifically its lead character, Olivia Pope, played by Kerry Washington. For more than 25 years, Smith has...
View ArticleWhat Amazon’s NBA deal means for the future of sports media rights
It was not exactly a fast break. When the NBA last week officially spurned Warner Bros. Discovery’s attempts to continue a 40-year partnership between the league and WBD subsidiary, TNT Sports, opting...
View Article3 key preretirement investment tips
While there is no lack of long-term investment advice for young and mid-career professionals–contribute to your retirement accounts early and often!–there is a lot less information for those right on...
View ArticleNetflix plans compared: how to best balance price and features
I don’t mean to brag, but I’ve gotten pretty awesome at jumping back and forth between Netflix rate plans. Why? Because they keep going up and I keep throttling down. I’m a cheapskate. But I also have...
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Google’s web cache is going away. Here are 3 free replacements
Heads-up: One of Google’s most useful and also underappreciated features is on the brink of extinction. I’m talkin’ about the cache-calling system that quietly existed within Google Search for...
View ArticleThe best leaders know how to channel chutzpah
In the opening episode of the hit series Suits, Mike Ross bluffs his way into Harvey Specter’s office, then lands a job as an associate in a prestigious law firm despite never graduating from law...
View ArticleWhat is period leave? The complicated push for a new employee benefit
Menstrual leave, which allows workers to take time off due to their periods, is not a particularly new concept. Russia had a history of offering it in the 1920s, while Japan introduced it into labor...
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Kamala Harris has already perfected the pantsuit. Now’s her chance to change...
Kamala Harris has a uniform. Most days, you’ll find her in a boxy, broad-shouldered suit that mirrors the one worn by her opponent. Her sartorial choice makes sense. Harris is auditioning for a job...
View ArticleWhat do good bosses have in common?
Welcome to Work Smarter, Fast Company‘s newsletter on career, leadership, and productivity advice. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here. At Fast Company, we spend a lot of time...
View ArticleOnline fundraising may require different design strategies to get donors to give
Most charities aren’t tailoring their online fundraising strategies to the electronic device donors may use when deciding whether to click a “donate” button. That’s what our marketing research team...
View ArticleResearch reveals the damage to mental health from an invisible dimension of...
When you think about household chores, you likely think of actions: scrubbing the dishes, running errands, chopping vegetables for dinner. And it’s not news to say that mothers often shoulder the...
View ArticleAs VP Harris brings joy to the presidential campaign, the GOP’s taunt...
With Vice President Kamala Harris’s ascent to the top of the Democratic ticket, Republicans are rebuilding a campaign strategy that for months focused on running against President Joe Biden. One...
View ArticleMillions of women in the U.S. suffer from this menstrual disorder. Why don’t...
For people with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), the prelude to their period is a nightmare, filled with rage storms, clouds of depression, and rolling waves of anxiety. Then it all vanishes,...
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