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Innovation isn’t a necessity just for tech companies. Legacy businesses in the food industry, like Kraft Heinz and Kellogg’s, have forsaken real innovation in favor of making small variations on trademark products, and they’re paying a heavy price: Their revenue growth lags below 2%.

Blockchain tech may have lost its luster for many investors, but JPMorgan Chase remains a believer. It’s making waves with an aggressive push to recruit blockchain talent for its new JPM Coin payment platform.

If you’re looking to boost employee morale and productivity, don’t underestimate the efficacy of giving people special projects to work on.

Freelance workers are starting to gain better treatment from some companies: Google has promised to improve pay and healthcare benefits for more than 98,000 contract employees following a slew of complaints.

Even the most generous philanthropy can’t protect your reputation. Last week the New York attorney general filed a lawsuit against members of the Sackler family, alleging that they personally directed Purdue Pharma to push doctors to overprescribe OxyContin. Cultural institutions from the Tate galleries to the Guggenheim Museum have sworn off further Sackler donations.

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Meet the English Professor Creating The Billion-Dollar College Of The Future

Southern New Hampshire University has grown exponentially, with inexpensive online courses for hundreds of thousands of adult learners. Is it a practical, quality alternative to traditional higher education?

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Perspective

One of the most persistent myths about the gender pay gap — that women intentionally choose careers with less compensation — ignores a key impediment they face: unconscious bias.

The Last Word

“What else are feathers for? They just like to get ruffled.”


— Marc Andreessen

Andreessen Horowitz, the famed Silicon Valley venture kingmaker that made a name for itself with risky, high-yielding investments in tech giants, has renounced its VC status and entered a second act as a traditional financial advisor, to be able to go deeper on riskier bets.

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In his new Forbes podcast, Editor in Chief Steve Forbes speaks with Howard Schultz about Schultz’s possible presidential run. Subscribe to “What’s Ahead” on Apple PodcastsSpotify and Google Podcasts.
 
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