Business & Strategy

Our mission to help you navigate the new normal is fueled by subscribers. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. The new Nest Audio Internet-connected speaker, introduced on Monday, is Google’s latest attempt to catch up to the category leader, Amazon’s Echo. But this time, Google is trying a new tactic: It’s focusing on […]

Good morning. The global markets and U.S. futures are bouncing back on rising optimism that President Trump will be discharged from the hospital as soon as today. Investors are downplaying for now the confusing messages coming from Trump’s medical team on his condition. Meanwhile, the global pandemic picture continues to worsen as cases top 35 […]

There’s an old truism about vacation homes: Nature wants them back. Indeed between the maintenance, upkeep, taxes, hassle of finding short-term renters, and typically small number of days per year homeowners are actually in residence, vacation homes are generally a great way to make memories—and a poor way to invest your money. Now two veterans […]

Our mission to help you navigate the new normal is fueled by subscribers. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Between social distancing and more time spent at home these days in the coronavirus age, many people are turning to new hobbies as well as organizing multiple facets of their personal belongings. For wine […]

This is an installment in a special series, Startup Year One, interviewing startup founders about the major lessons they learned in the immediate aftermath of their businesses’ first year of operation. While it might seem counterintuitive, getting dressed for work—even for working at home—is actually an even greater burden and source of anxiety for women […]

Our mission to help you navigate the new normal is fueled by subscribers. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Netflix’s new blockbuster show The Three-Body Problem has become a problem for the streaming giant. On Sept. 1, Netflix announced that it was adapting the popular Chinese sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem into a […]

Does employee wellbeing mean a better bottom line? Fortune teamed up with Thrive Global, SAP SuccessFactors, and Qualtrics to build the Thrive XM Index*, a ranking of companies with the best employee wellbeing.  To create the index, we surveyed a sample of more than 20,000 full-time U.S. employees from over 900 companies. We asked them […]

Our mission to help you navigate the new normal is fueled by subscribers. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Donald Trump went into election night trailing Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. He’d go on to win those three states by less than 1%—and the presidency. But this go around […]

Over the last year, buzz around ESG investing has grown significantly. From BlackRock’s January investor letter  to the resiliency of environmental, social and governance (ESG) funds amidst the COVID-19 crisis, these financial products continue to gain in popularity, and managers are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their analysis of companies’ ESG focus. And for good reasons: Consumers increasingly expect corporations to match […]

Our mission to help you navigate the new normal is fueled by subscribers. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. The economic recovery is losing steam. U.S. employment rose by 661,000 in September, bringing the total number of jobs added since May to 11.4 million, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics‘ Friday […]