Business & Economics

Shifting to a 4-day workweek isn't as simple as wishing and hoping for increased employee engagement and productivity.

Despite the pandemic, it was a record-setting year for the world’s wealthiest- with a $5 trillion surge in wealth and an unprecedented number of new billionaires.

A massive trade in the U.S. options market on Thursday appears to be betting that the calm enveloping U.S. stocks in recent weeks will give way to a big rise in volatility over the next three months.

Black executives from 26 different leading companies have recently joined together to form the Black Executive CMO Alliance (BECA).

In June, 600 & Rising kicked off an industry-wide conversation around race—and in recent weeks we've seen some of the tangible results of those discussions.

Creators can push lip tints and yoga mats. What about entire living room sets?

The retailer has expanded its range of merchandise online and is trying to sustain a strong, pandemic-fueled run.

Marketing leadership boasts greater gender diversity than other departments while facing a persistent succession crisis, with 84% of chief marketers being hired externally.

The digital identity company recently announced it would acquire Auth0 for ~$6.5 billion

Paying with cryptocurrency, settling in fiat

Gamblers flock to a new kind of online casino that’s open 24 hours a day

Negotiating is risky — but so is not negotiating

Executives from major airlines, retailers and manufacturers – plus at least one NFL owner – talked about potential ways to show they opposed the controversial legislation, including by halting donations to politicians who support the bills and even delaying investments in states that pass the restrictive measures

US tech giant's headaches suggest even worse chip shortages lie ahead

Median pay for the chief executives of more than 300 of the biggest U.S. public companies reached $13.7 million last year, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.

Chad Richison was awarded compensation valued at $211 million last year, but at the pay package’s core is an award of restricted shares that could wind up adding more than $2 billion to his fortune over the next decade.

As quickly as those gains were erased, it could take much, much longer for them to return.

Apple's CEO is clear that he isn't making decisions based on what's best for Facebook, but for Apple and its customers.

A pivot to holding more inventory, rising warehouse rents and Amazon's decision to limit its fulfillment service all played a role.

The alternative to Venmo has become ubiquitous in rap lyrics. How did that happen?

Getting past the cult of Genius and the bleakness of capitalist futurism.

Three members of the seven-person executive team are stepping away from their roles, setting off speculation over what issues, if anything, prompted the moves

The world’s traditional growth engine reported an 18.3 percent leap in the first quarter. But consumers and small businesses aren’t fully sharing in the spoils.

Hometown International reported $35,748 in sales in 2019 and 2020, combined, but is worth millions in the over-the-counter market.

"It’s clearly a short squeeze."

The company’s stock market arrival establishes Bitcoin and other digital currencies in the traditional financial landscape. It also elevates a technology with astonishing environmental costs.

The economic toll from the pandemic has been tough to measure, but new estimates from the Federal Reserve suggest it wasn’t as bad as feared for smaller businesses.