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Sweetgreen is asking customers to pay $10 a month for its new loyalty programSweetgreen has a Monday and Friday problem. The salad-and-grain-bowl chain was riding high pre-pandemic as increasing numbers of office...
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Innovation and differentiation can buoy small collegesHello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter...
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POV: How AR is transforming the construction industryMany construction sites today look like something out of a sci-fi movie, filled with automated robots, Extended Reality headsets, touchpads, and...
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How a ‘Frankenbuilding’ became a stunning new art museumThe new folded concrete roof that swoops across the center of the sprawling Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) in Little Rock is the rare...
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The forgotten story of America’s first female architectThe story of Minerva Parker Nichols is finally being told. A trailblazing architect, she was the first woman in the U.S. to practice architecture...
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A California bill would regulate automated decisions. But is its definition of AI too narrow?A new California bill seeks to put groundbreaking guardrails around how people use AI to make important decisions—but some advocates worry...
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This is the money mindset freelancers need to be successfulWant your freelance business to succeed? Pay attention to the money. A survey of 500 founders by the invoicing software, Skynova, found that the...
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Yes, the labor market is tight. No, child labor is not the solutionThe pandemic upended America’s workforce, and the labor market is still reeling, with 3 million fewer Americans working today compared to...
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9 tools to get your inbox under controlThis article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe...
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This specific kind of stress makes managers less effective“My team is constantly in fire-fighting mode,” Gavin shared with us. As part of a service team in global software organization,...
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Spotted lanternflies are about to hatch—and they’re going to be thirstyIf you live in the Northeast, you’re probably already familiar with the spotted lanternfly, the black and red spotted pests that have...
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Do you have ADHD? This web browser is designed to make it easier to focusWhen Dmitry Pushkarev left his job as an executive at Amazon, he started pondering one question: Why aren’t web browsers designed for work...
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Your toxic workplace could be affecting your gut health—I know from experienceBloody, watery, and black. That’s what my stool looked like when I worked at a marketing agency. It was only after I experienced...
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How AI could power advertising’s next creative revolutionLittle more than a month after OpenAI’s generative AI chatbot ChatGPT went viral for its ability to write essays and poems, all in...
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How the latest wave of abortion bans could deepen the wealth gap and make inequality worseAt least 13 states have banned most abortions in the nine months following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last year....
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Going green, job-wise? These 15 environmental companies are hiring fully remote workersA recent Opinium survey revealed that 73% of U.S. workers say a company’s commitment to the environment is one of the top factors they...
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Want to make a creative breakthrough? Leave your deskMiriam Simun is an artist, interaction designer, and educator investigating the implications of socio-technical and environmental change at the...
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This is the number one privacy feature Apple should offer iPhone users when it releases iOS 17When Apple previews iOS 17—the iPhone’s next operating system—at its annual developers conference in June, it would be...
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This legacy mattress brand’s smart beds are its secret weapon in the sleep warsThe smart bed world is rife with splashy products from well-capitalized startups. Legacy brands have made fewer waves in the space, but Sleep...
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How a microwave-sized device could make personalized cancer treatment more accessibleWhen it works, CAR-T cancer therapy can appear miraculous. With a single infusion of their own immune T-cells—genetically modified to...
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Your next salad mix could be made using CRISPR—and that’s a good thingIf I asked you to name some of your favorite natural treats, there’s a good chance you’d mention coffee, chocolate, or fruit. Now...
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Walmart may be dumping Bonobos and Eloquii, but its strategy wasn’t a total flopWhen Walmart announced today that it was selling online women’s-apparel brand Eloquii to FullBeautyBrands, just days after selling online...
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CEOs are throwing tantrums about productivity and return-to-office plansFew things spread across the internet as quickly—or solicit criticism as swiftly—as viral videos of upset CEOs. Recent examples...
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Lyft is planning to lay off at least 1,200 peopleLyft CEO David Risher told employees early Friday that the company will “significantly reduce” roles in an effort to cut costs....
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Photos from Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies event celebrating honoreesThe team that invented Dall-E and ChatGPT, as well as engineers, investors, marketers, and other representatives of the world’s Most...
