In this conference call, Quartz reporter Annalisa Merelli and deputy finance and economics editor Oliver Staley took your questions about how China took over the art world.
For decades, former employees and vendors of US president Donald Trump’s hotels and casinos have accused him of not honoring his obligations and stiffing them on unpaid bills and wages.
In this conference call, Quartz technology editor Mike Murphy and deputy finance and economics editor Oliver Staley took your questions about a big week for tech earnings.
In this conference call, Quartz reporter Natasha Frost and deputy finance and economics editor Oliver Staley took your questions on the state of philanthropy.
We should all have friends like A$AP Rocky’s.
Bitcoin, once buried, is back.
Since its launch in 2015, Monzo has quickly grown to become one of the most popular online banks in the UK, boasting more than 2 million users. Now, like a string of British success stories from the Beatles to James Corden, Monzo wants to try its luck in the US.
For months, Donald Trump has been browbeating on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. Now, markets are betting that he’ll get his wish. It won’t be a cause for celebration.
Isolation is bad for your health. Men and women who live alone are at higher risk for heart attacks, and loneliness is linked to a range of illnesses, from depression to diabetes to Alzheimer’s disease.
In 2000, Bill Campbell retired as CEO of Intuit, the software company. He’d had a long and interesting career—as a failed Ivy League football coach, a salesman at Kodak, a board member at Apple—but he was about to embark on one of the most storied second acts in American business.
There are roughly 100 billion neurons in the human brain. These microscopic cells transmit and process information we receive from the outside world and turn our thoughts into action. They are responsible for how we talk, how we move, and how we think. Neurons are, in many ways, what make us us.
The cutting-edge treatment for stroke isn’t an elegantly crafted drug or a gene therapy, but a device that works like a pipe cleaner. It’s a thin metal catheter that snakes its way up from a patient’s thigh, through their heart, and into the blood vessels of the brain, where it clears the obstruction causing the stroke.
Companies have plenty of excuses about why they don’t raise workers’ wages, expand family leave benefits, or commit to environmentally sound practices. High among them is the penalty they will supposedly pay with investors, who will dump their shares at the first sign of any actions that eat into profits.
It’s tempting to view this week’s college admissions scandal as an indictment of the inequities of higher education in the US. The revelations that affluent families bribed their kids into elite universities makes plain what has been tacitly known for years: The wealthy and privileged carry huge advantages in college admissions.
Monuments are seldom loved at their inception.
Luke Perry died Monday (March 4), less than a week after the actor reportedly suffered a stroke. But while Perry’s death comes as a surprise—at 52, he was relatively young and appeared in good health—it’s a sobering reminder of the deadly impact of the disease.
A year ago, Vasant Narasimhan became CEO of Novartis, one of the world’s oldest and largest pharmaceutical companies. Just 42, Narasimhan—a Harvard-trained physician and McKinsey alum—is working to reinvigorate the Swiss company. While much of his focus is on expanding its arsenal of cutting-edge gene-therapy medicines and pushing for more technology in drug development, he’s also trying to change the corporation’s culture to give its 125,000 employees more autonomy. That means doing away with an autocratic, top-down management style built up over centuries (Novartis’s roots date to 1758) and enabling “servant leaders” to manage “un-bossed” workers. He says he wants to “unleash the power of our people.”
There are lots of sad songs about the break-up of romances, but not many about the breakups of the bands who sing them. But bands are a lot like marriages and other long-term relationships: They’re often formed in the hot passion of youth and then endure ups and downs as the members mature and struggle with life’s vicissitudes. They also break up for many of the same reasons as relationships: incompatibility, jealousy, bad behavior, and financial strife. And like some relationships, bands get back together, over and over again, whether it’s good for them or not. Band (and relationship) breakups also tend to fall into a few types:
Colin Kaepernick, the NFL quarterback at the center of a storm of controversy stemming from his protests against police brutality, settled his lawsuit with the NFL today (Feb 15). The suit alleged the league’s teams retaliated against his decision to kneel during the national anthem by colluding to prevent him from playing. Former teammate Eric Reid also settled his similar suit.
The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past, as William Faulkner famously wrote, and as General Electric executives and investors thoroughly understand.
This Sunday, I’ll watch the Super Bowl, just as I have each of the last 34 Super Bowls. This year, as in other recent years, I’ll be doing so more out of a sense of obligation than with any real enthusiasm.
In the wake of revelations in the New York Times about Facebook’s campaign to attack its perceived enemies, there has been dismay in some circles about the role played by Sheryl Sandberg. The social network’s chief operating officer, who burnished her progressive-feminist credentials with books like Lean In and commencement speeches across America, is said to have betrayed the cause by placing corporate greed before her stated principles.
Graduates of US colleges know what it means to be alumni: A steady flow of beseeching mail seeking donations, and the occasional homecoming football game.
