The December effect: How constraints create better leadership decisions

Business 12/14 1:00A Shalene Gupta

December forces focus, limits choices, and clarifies priorities. Leaders can engineer this productivity all year long. Every December, something strange happens inside companies. Decisions that were stuck for months suddenly fly through. Projects...

Apple loses contempt ruling appeal, but could revisit iPhone app fees

Business 12/12 11:34A Associated Press

Apple continued to fight the alternative payment option in appeals before being rebuffed by the U.S. Supreme Court in January 2024. A federal appeals court on Thursday backed a ruling that held Apple in civil contempt for brazenly defying an...

U.S. Mint reveals coin designs commemorating 250th anniversary of America’s independence

Business 12/12 10:31A Associated Press

Designs for the quarter include depictions of the Mayflower Compact, U.S. Constitution, and Gettysburg Address. The U.S. Mint unveiled the designs for coins commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence next year. They depict the...

Here’s how Hinge is surviving the dating app apocalypse

Business 12/12 8:39A kat-caulderwood

Nobody wants to swipe anymore. Dating apps like Bumble and Tinder are scrambling to keep younger users engaged, and dealing with problems like bots on their platforms. But one brand is breaking the pattern and winning. Hinge’s “designed to be...

18,000 Amtrak workers will get bonuses, thanks to executive cuts

Business 12/12 8:33A Associated Press

Unions representing train workers praised the move. More than 18,000 Amtrak workers will receive a $900 bonus before the end of the year, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced on Thursday evening. Funding for the bonuses will come from...

Lululemon stock price gets a boost as CEO departs and buybacks rise. Is this the start of a...

Business 12/12 7:59A Sarah Fielding

After a rough year, the athleisure apparel brand just reported higher revenue and a leadership shakeup that appears to have investors pleased. Lululemon might just be entering a new—and improved—era.

Trump’s tariffs have cost U.S. households $1,200 each, Democrats say

Business 12/11 8:59A Associated Press

According to Democrats on Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, Trump’s tariffs have cost the average American household almost $1,200 since he began his second term. Sweeping taxes on imports have cost the average American household nearly $1,200...

Dropbox’s head designer is an AI optimist

Business 12/10 4:30A Doreen Lorenzo

‘You have to be visionary and pragmatic.’ AI is part and parcel of many corporate design processes these days, including one company making a product many creatives are familiar with: Dropbox . Its VP of design and research, Shannon Butler, is...

Frank Gehry’s most enduring legacy will be transforming how architects work

Business 12/9 11:00A Nate Berg

The legendary architect who died last week at 96 embraced cutting-edge design tools to realize his most outlandish visions. The art of architecture has never been the same. For an architect whose name and work have become known all over the world...

‘American Canto’ was designed to be a modern classic

Business 12/9 4:30A Hunter Schwarz

Olivia Nuzzi’s beleaguered book has a cover as ambitious as its author. Judge a book by its cover, and you might think that American Canto , the memoir by Vanity Fair s outgoing West Coast editor Olivia Nuzzi, is destined to be a classic. The...

The critical move most leaders miss after a crisis

Business 12/9 1:00A Sudha Nandagopal

Steering an organization through a crisis is important, but it’s equally important to make sure that crisis leadership doesn’t become a norm. For most leaders these last five years have been ones of great volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and...

AKQA CEO Baiju Shah explains how the agency is leveraging AI instead of being disrupted by it

Business 12/8 6:00A Stephanie Mehta

In his first extended interview since joining the company, the AKQA chief explains why he is bullish on the intersection of tech and creativity. Hello and welcome to Modern CEO ! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto...

Candylab rebranded its retro toy cars to reach kids and ‘kidults’

Business 12/8 4:30A Grace Snelling

The new look includes three fresh logos inspired by vintage car fonts. When Vlad Drǎgușin founded his mid-century inspired toy car company, Candylab , in 2013, he had a Kickstarter page and a dream. His goal was to create wooden model cars...

The dramatic rise and spectacular fall of my ChatGPT investment portfolio

Business 12/8 4:30A Thomas Smith

Although October was a sea of green, November was nothing but blood red. Three months ago, I fired up ChatGPT and asked it to design a highly aggressive, short-term investment portfolio, selecting five stocks that were most likely to make me...

How to speak with authority

Business 12/7 1:00A Joel Garfinkle

Speaking with clarity and conviction is an essential leadership skill. An executive coach offers a tool kit for how to do this well. A meeting drags on. People are talking, but no one is saying the thing that needs to be said. Direction is...