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Louisa Loran advises boards and leadership teams on transformation and long-term value creation

20 years across Google, Maersk, and Diageo taught me that the biggest barrier to change isn’t ideas — it’s the gap between inside reality and outside expectations

After two decades on the inside, I crossed the line for the first time. I went from the inside to the outside and it was a huge wake-up call.

By Louisa Loran

November 29, 2025

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‘The economy is bad, but you still have to celebrate’: Black Friday shoppers attack stores with a vengeance, some sipping champagne

By Anne D'Innocenzio, Cathy Bussewitz, and others

FILE – Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, second from right, is taken in handcuffs to a waiting aircraft as he is extradited to the United States, at an Air Force base in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, April 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Elmer Martinez, File)

Trump to pardon former Honduran president convicted for cocaine trafficking—while U.S. military attacks suspected drug boats

By Josh Boak, Christopher Sherman, and others

FILE – Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar stands at the State Department in Washington, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Trinidad’s leader backtracks and says U.S. Marines are working on Tobago’s airport amid military buildup in Caribbean

By Anselm Gibbs and The Associated Press

the outside of a mcdonald's restaurant

Crypto bros trade Lambo dreams for McDonald’s memes in latest bear market sign

By Carlos Garcia

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The Holiday Cottage

This millennial home designer spent 9 months building a replica of ‘The Holiday’ cottage—now it’s renting fast at $499 a night

By Emma Burleigh

November 28, 2025

Carmelo Anthony

Carmelo Anthony reflects on Hall of Fame career, investing wins and passing on Google and crypto: ‘That’s another one I should have went with my gut on’

By Nick Lichtenberg

November 28, 2025

This ‘boring’ job that millennials and boomers abandoned is the hottest seasonal job on the market—and it’s Gen Z’s path to a six-figure career

This ‘boring’ job that millennials and boomers abandoned is the hottest seasonal job on the market—and it’s Gen Z’s path to a six-figure career

By Orianna Rosa Royle

November 28, 2025

Mark Cuban smirking mischievously

Billionaire Mark Cuban once ran a Ponzi scheme from his dorm room: ‘That’s how I paid for my junior year of college’

November 27, 2025

Warren Buffett in front of a sky blue background

Read Warren Buffett’s annual Thanksgiving letter for 2025—his final one to shareholders

November 27, 2025

Buzz Lightyear float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

How Macy’s, a department store chain founded when Abraham Lincoln was alive, created America’s biggest parade of the year

November 27, 2025

Marvin Ellison speaks at an on-stage panel

Lowe’s CEO used to make $4.35 an hour working at Target. His secret to climbing the corporate ladder was volunteering for jobs ‘nobody else wanted’

November 27, 2025

Massy Williams

Navigating the Great Wealth Transfer: building confidence across generations

By Massy Williams

November 27, 2025

Elijah-Khasabo

This Gen Zer built a software company in his bedroom that’s about to make $1 million. But he’s still committed to getting his college degree

By Preston Fore

November 27, 2025

Sam Altman smiles against a pink background

MIT report: AI can already replace nearly 12% of the U.S. workforce

November 27, 2025

Kathy Harvey is Associate Dean for Global Networks and Innovation at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Keble College.

Finance’s outdated view of women holding back female founders

By Kathy Harvey

November 27, 2025

Gustas Germanavicius

From college dropout to Ironman CEO in 7 years, this Gen Z founder found ‘no pain, no gain’ from a trip to China and the Shaolin monks

By Nick Lichtenberg

November 27, 2025

How to stop ‘death-by-measurement’ from killing your product’s vision

November 27, 2025

middle class

Americans can’t agree on what ‘middle class’ means anymore, and they’re debating it in the comments of TikTok home tours

By Nick Lichtenberg and Ashley Lutz

November 26, 2025

Donald Trump inauguration

Meet the world’s 29 ‘super-billionaires’ fueling the wealth gap and boasting a collective fortune of $4 trillion

By Emma Burleigh

November 26, 2025

Few investors copy Warren Buffett’s investment strategy ‘because no one wants to get rich slow,’ the retiring Berkshire Hathaway CEO says

Few investors copy Warren Buffett’s investment strategy ‘because no one wants to get rich slow,’ the retiring Berkshire Hathaway CEO says

November 26, 2025

Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon says she doesn’t know a single woman ‘who doesn’t have a disaster financial story’ thanks to divorce and debt

By Jessica Coacci

November 26, 2025

Two businesswomen discussing in meeting

To get promoted in the age of AI and layoffs, young workers need upskilling—and to take ownership—career experts say

By Preston Fore

November 26, 2025

An Asian woman typing on her laptop while sitting on an airplane

The ideal airplane seat choice to avoid getting sick while traveling, according to an Olympic doctor

November 26, 2025

Weed

After fighting for legalization, weed smokers face a harsh reality: Symptoms earlier generations didn’t experience make wake-and-bake a new kind of addiction

By Leah Willingham and The Associated Press

November 25, 2025

Richard Branson and his wife Joan kiss

Arts & Entertainment

Billionaire Richard Branson mourns his wife and partner of 50 years, Joan: ‘She was my best friend, my rock, my guiding light, my world’

November 25, 2025

Ray Dalio attends the Fortune Global Forum Riyadh 2025 on October 27, 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Ray Dalio reveals the surprising ‘single most important reason’ he’s succeeded in investing—and it has nothing to do with finance

By Eva Roytburg

November 25, 2025

Chancellor Rachel Reeves

Ultrawealthy are looking to leave the U.K. thanks to tax hikes—but the CEO of $1 billion tax platform says it’s their ‘social responsibility’ to stay

By Orianna Rosa Royle

November 25, 2025

Arianna Huffington

The high cost of letting our jobs and our diagnoses define us

By Arianna Huffington

November 25, 2025

Gotham FC

New York’s new dynasty gets keys to the city as Gotham FC celebrates second NWSL title in 3 years

By The Associated Press

November 25, 2025

Slack cofounder Stewart Butterfield

Slack cofounder says workers and CEOs can get stuck doing ‘fake’ work like pre-meetings and slide shows

By Emma Burleigh

November 25, 2025

A view of a DC Comics, Superman No. 1 issue is shown Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, in Irving, Texas.

Arts & Entertainment

Three brothers cleaned out their mom’s attic — and found a $9 million Superman that just became the most expensive comic ever sold

By Jack Brook and The Associated Press

November 25, 2025

Marc Benioff smiles outside

‘I’m not going back’: Billionaire Marc Benioff says he’s switching to Google’s Gemini 3 after using ‘ChatGPT every day for three years’

November 25, 2025

Marc Benioff

29-year-old founder spammed Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff 53 times—it worked and now he spends 30 minutes a week ‘hustling’ and shooting cold emails

By Jessica Coacci

November 25, 2025

Jensen Huang

‘Are you insane?’: Billionaire CEO Jensen Huang blasts Nvidia managers who are ‘telling their people to use less AI’

November 25, 2025

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