“Hi Gordy!” he said. “I’m Blake, your designated golf expert (and a real human, I promise!)” All right, even though it sounds exactly like something an intelligent chatbot would say, this detail mattered to me: Blake’s expertise (and his humanity) was what most interested me about Curated.

The meeting started with a thank-you. President-elect Donald Trump was planted at a long table on the 25th floor of his Manhattan tower. Trump sat dead center, per custom, and, also per custom, looked deeply satisfied with himself. He was joined by his usual coterie of lackeys and advisers and, for a change, the heads of the largest technology companies in the world.

“These are monster companies,” Trump declared, beaming at a

Interest in outdoor pastimes soared during the pandemic as health concerns forced a rethink of many indoor activities. That didn’t escape the attention of mergers-and-acquisitions bankers.

It’s only September, but so far this year companies have announced $11 billion in leisure-related takeovers in North America. That’s the highest annual volume since 2006, when private equity firms gobbled up travel-services companies Travelport and Sabre Holdings in a pair of multibillion-dollar deals.

The U.S. MBA is no more immune to the gender gap than the rest of corporate America. Even as women make up a majority of all college students and fill more than 6 out of every 10 seats in U.S. master’s degree programs, the number of aspiring female executives continues to lag in

On a sunny, 99-degree day in northern Montana, Clayton Phipps grabs a backpack and heads for a small trench, maybe a foot deep. He drops to his knees, his auburn hair flared out beneath his black Stetson, then opens his pack, removes a knife that looks best suited to cutting steak, and gets to work.

By now, people are used to unusual goings-on in cryptocurrency markets. But little could have prepared Wall Street for the spectacle of Sept. 8, when it awoke to find the head of a $50 billion digital-assets exchange bashing a powerful regulator in a 21-tweet tirade. There was

It’s mid-August, and logistics manager RoxAnne Thomas’s phone won’t stop pinging. Her faucets, sinks, and toilets are waylaid near Shanghai, snagged in Vancouver, and buried under a pile of shipping containers in a rail yard outside Chicago. As U.S. transportation manager for

The ranks of C-suite trainees enrolled in today’s MBA programs are a microcosm of the challenges playing out across America’s corporate landscape. By and large they are still too male and lack the diversity to reflect the demographics of future business culture.

The historic national reckoning on race that was triggered by the killing of George Floyd has touched off a reexamination of corporate America from top to bottom. We created the Bloomberg Businessweek

In a soccer game in Liverpool’s Goodison Park in 1988, player John Barnes stepped away from his position and used the back of his heel to kick away a banana that had been thrown toward him. Captured in an iconic photo, the moment encapsulated the racial abuse that Black soccer players then faced in the U.K.

More than 30 years later, the medium has changed, yet the racism persists: After England lost to Italy this July in the final of the UEFA European Championship, Black players for the British side

State borders that were previously little more than photo opportunities are now fortified in a bid to keep out residents from Covid-hit places. Separated family members are defying police orders by hugging each other across the barricades, and some Australians have been denied the right to retrieve their children or visit dying relatives.

Peter Kriechel awoke on the morning of July 15 to find a dozen smashed cars piled up in his garden and the streets of the once picturesque village of Ahrweiler awash in muddy debris. At his family’s nearby 

For digital currencies to continue that upward trajectory, however, they need to “expand the investor base”—a euphemism for finding new and, almost by definition, less sophisticated investors willing to pump up the price of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, and any other cryptocurrency that is the flavor of the day.

A woman in Istanbul sent a panicked message to her lawyer: Her ex-husband was on his way to pick up their 9-year-old daughter. He threatened to kill her if she tried to stop him.

This was three days after Turkey announced in March that it was

It’s a pledge that countless purveyors of medicine, meditation apps, herbal supplements, and therapy have made: less stress and a good night’s rest. Chances are you’ve tried a few of these, with middling success—we’ve all got fatigue-fighting fatigue.

But the $490

The pandemic changed the heartbeat of urban areas across the U.S.­—few more so than the Pike/Pine corridor of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. The vibrant-at-all-hours commercial district seemed headed for disaster as the economy shut down in March 2020. People holed up in their apartments, logging on to corporate office jobs at Amazon.com Inc. and other employers that had suddenly gone remote. Restaurants and bars went to takeout. Brick-and-mortar shops tried to make a go of it online. Music venues fell silent.