Ryan Gellert, Patagonia's C.E.O., Has a Mission: 'Save Our Home Planet'
Ryan Gellert is worried about the world his children will inherit and is trying to use business to combat climate change. Source link
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Jake Wood Was Once a Warrior, Then a Nonprofit Leader. Now He’s an Entrepreneur.
The first firefight that I was ever in, about three or four weeks into my first tour in Iraq. This is 2007 during the surge. It’s the deadliest year of the war, and we’re in the triangle of death, right in Anbar province. We’d been bombed, blown up on the roads a couple of times …
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What Bosses Really Think About Returning to the Office
People think about the office differently now — including the C.E.O.s who for so long kept a watchful eye on which workers were at their desks. Bosses who once relished face time have grown less attached to crowded elevators and overstuffed conference rooms. Executives who got promoted by putting in 15-hour days sitting in Aeron …
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Retailers Scramble to Attract Workers Ahead of the Holidays
Macy’s is offering referral bonuses of up to $500 for each friend or family member that employees recruit to join the company. Walmart is paying as much as $17 an hour to start and has begun offering free college tuition to its workers. And some Amazon warehouse jobs now command signing bonuses of up to …
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The Zambian Economist at the Crossroads of Global Business
Absolutely. I was born and raised in one of the poorest countries in the world and one that unfortunately remains so today. So I’m genuinely trying to find out the solution. Rather than say, “Growth is inherently the problem,” I actually think the manner in which we have created growth has been the problem. The …
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They Never Could Work From Home. These Are Their Stories.
Day after day, they went to work. While white-collar America largely worked from the cocoons of their homes, these workers left for jobs elsewhere. Most had no choice. For many workers around the country, the Delta variant’s surge this summer upended long-awaited plans to return to the office this fall. But millions more — including …
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‘Every Day Is Frightening’: Working For Walmart Amid Covid
Elsewhere in the country, the conversation has begun to move on, away from early Covid alarm and into something more guardedly speculative. What will post-pandemic life look like? How have our priorities shifted? But for vast swaths of the nation, largely untouched by doses from Pfizer and Moderna, it remains late 2020 in many ways. …
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The C.E.O. Other C.E.O.s Turn to for Advice
For companies, that means three things. First, we have to acknowledge the mental and emotional stress of people and provide resources and support and recognize that just because we’re experiencing the same pandemic, that doesn’t mean we’re having the same experience. Second, we need to find ways to bring more flexibility to work life, and …
Brick-and-Mortar Retail in the Age of Covid, and Amazon
Brick-and-mortar retailers have been decimated in recent years. First came Amazon. Then the pandemic. Yet even as giant shopping malls are dying and many storefronts are shuttered, the big box stores that anchor strip malls throughout the exurbs are enjoying something of a renaissance. Companies like Best Buy, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Home Depot have …
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The ‘Hedonistic Altruism’ of Plant-Based Meat
Not everyone is so convinced that plant-based burgers are healthy. I mentioned Beyond burgers the other day and someone started talking about all the chemicals. If you were to list out the chemical composition of organic Kobe beef it would be a superlong list of really long, complicated words that most of us couldn’t pronounce. …