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For Black entrepreneurs, the most visible form of business capital is still venture capital. It is also one of the least representative of where most Black-owned businesses actually get money...
Few CIOs are handed the keys to a $26.5 billion defense business. In 2022, Ted Colbert made that unusual leap at Boeing, moving from the company’s top technology role to president and CEO of its...
Imagine a freelance designer. They start making $3,000 a month from a home office. At first, it’s simple. Money comes in. Expenses go out. Everything runs under the owner’s legal name...
Nobody expected a first-time television creator to reshape Hollywood. Back in the early 2000s, network TV ran on familiar formulas. Writers felt pressure to deliver a hit, and that pressure usually...
Most people in corporate America play it safe. You protect the brand that’s already winning. You don’t volunteer for the mess. Bozoma Saint John did the opposite, over and over. She helped...
For decades, sports worked on an unwritten rule: teams held the power, players took what they were offered. Free agency loosened that grip a little, sure. But most agents still just fought for bigger...
When Ellison stepped in as CEO back in July 2018, Lowe’s was making money, but it was all over the place. Home Depot was beating them on sales. Core retail tech was falling behind. Activist investors...
Retail has a returns problem. A massive one. In 2024, American shoppers sent back roughly $890 billion worth of items. Apparel accounts for a disproportionate share of those returns, driven largely by...
For decades, bone marrow transplants have depended on living donors. The problem is that suitable matches are scarce, leaving thousands of patients waiting each year, and many never receive a...