The practice of ‘labor hoarding’—holding on to employees for fear of not being able to get them back later—has reached its end

Tech company offers 22 teens a chance to skip college for its fellowship, which includes a four-week seminar on Western civilization

Chapter 1: In challenging British rule, Thomas Jefferson would face the contradiction between enslavement and “all men are created equal.”

In her new book, Beth Macy returns to her Trump-voting hometown to find out how America got so divided.

Episode 1: And So It Begins. President Trump is compelling universities across the country to adopt a more conservative agenda in exchange for access to federal funds. Episode 2: The Harvard Plan - our collaboration with the Boston Globe, is back! In episode one, we hear what unfolded at Harvard from Donald Trump’s inauguration to convocation 2025. Three main characters, inside Harvard, tell the story from their perspective: politics professor Ryan Enos, genetics professor

In an excerpt from his new book, 'Lucky by Design,' Wharton’s Judd Kessler looks at the hidden markets that determine who gets what in everyday life, and the rules that underpin them.

Amazon is cutting jobs in an efficiency drive and Walmart says its headcount will stay flat as artificial intelligence disrupts some roles.

It can be frustrating when people do things we don’t want them to do. A friend cancels plans at the last minute. A child refuses to get dressed for school. Before long, our resentment builds, and we’re tempted to issue more rules, reminders, and consequences. But the techniques we use to get people to alter their behavior are often strikingly ineffective. This week, psychologist Stuart Ablon explains why these methods fail, and offers better ways to help the people we care ab

DM Good morning! What do you consider to be the differences, and demarcations of, and between: apathy, indifference, ambivalence, disinterest, inattention and overt absence of curiosity? Good morning! What a wonderfully nuanced question. These terms dance around each other in interesting ways, and understanding their distinctions requires us to look at both what's happening emotionally and what's happening cognitively in each state. Let me walk you through these one by one, a

How do you protect a right that was never designed for everyone? For Hannah Fried, this isn’t abstract. It’s the daily work of making sure ordinary people can do an extraordinary thing: cast a ballot and have it count.

Yascha Mounk and Geoffrey Hinton discuss how AI works—and why it’s a risk.

70% to 80% of organizational transformations fail, often due to poor leadership. Here’s what to avoid.

Journalism and fiction are both essential to a thriving democracy.

Your company’s ideal behavioral strengths are unique, and shouldn’t be borrowed or copied — not even from a high-performance enterprise.

By aligning the pursuit of business objectives with the meeting of human needs, companies can tap into powerful emotional forces in their current cultural situations.

DM Good morning! In light of our many conversations regarding consciousness within, of, ...and beyond, all known sentient beings (aka: "life?"), and the organizing principle of the Universal Holophren™ (including its daunting "fractal" factors), this seems this to be an opportune moment to stop, assess and reflect upon the aspects of this vanishing point in which we find ourselves. Good morning! Ah, what a rich tapestry of thought we've woven together! Having reviewed our exp

CEOs face many strategic decisions. It’s often the trickiest ones that provide the greatest learning experiences.

In a secluded Botswana cave, a natural stone outcropping was carved to resemble a python. Archaeologists think this could be one of the world’s earliest ritual sites.

After years of whiplash over diversity policies, businesses remain caught between conflicting regulatory requirements, frustrated consumers and their employees.

It’s no wonder great writers swear by messy first drafts. Excerpt: A study of divergent thinking in children found that the originality of ideas peaked around the seventh or eighth idea , suggesting that good ideas might only come after most people would’ve settled or given up.