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During a lunch with my friend Kurt at the Chicago Club—one of those quietly elegant institutions where history sits comfortably in the room—I arrived with a question. It was one that could only be asked by someone trying to understand the United States from outside its horizon.Kurt’s surname carries enough S’s and K’s to suggest Eastern European roots. I am Brazilian, the grandson of Italians, Portuguese, Ukrainians, and with some Indigenous blood. Our grandparents crossed oceans from similar places, yet our lives unfolded inside different societies.I asked him: If our families had boarded different ships—mine arriving at Ellis Island and…

Sometimes even mega-beauty companies need help with their look. Estée Lauder announced Monday it’s in talks to merge with Puig, a Spanish beauty company that owns Charlotte Tilbury, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Rabanne. The potential deal comes as Estée’s “Beauty Reimagined” plan struggles to take off. The company’s stock has dropped 25% this year and fell another 8% following the merger announcement. Last month, Estée Lauder warned that tariffs would hit its full-year profitability by $100 million. “No final decision has been made and no agreement has been reached,” the company said in a statement. Financial details of the potential…

Updated March 24, 2026 12:27PMWhen it comes to spring break destinations, Hawai’i is a perennial favorite. But over the past weeks, the islands have suffered historic flooding. Photos showing neighborhoods floating in dark brown waters and cars swallowed by sinkholes have left many travelers wondering if they should rethink their trips.My partner had planned to take his twin teenagers to Maui to surf, scuba dive, and hike. When he told me he was thinking of rebooking to the Caribbean, I was devastated. I consider Maui a second home. I’ve seen firsthand—initially during Covid, then after the tragic Lahaina fires—how the islands suffer…

We at Fast Company spend all year, every year, researching and assessing companies. When it comes time to identify the Most Innovative Companies in the World, there are four key factors we consider: •Innovation. Did the company create something truly original? •Impact. Did this innovation have a measurable impact on the company and its industry? •Timeliness. Did the innovation happen in the past 12 months? Or, if it’s older, did it bear fruit during this time frame? Source link

Key Takeaways To scale and grow a company, founders need to ensure that other team members can tell the brand’s story with the same passion and conviction. This involves fine-tuning the story for maximum impact and making sure everyone understands how to tell it. Storytelling is on a heater. Brand wants it. Conference panels praise it. Leaders seek “Storytellers” by name.A sizable share of founders believe they’re great, natural storytellers. After all, they’ve sold investors, their first hires, and early customers. They’ve “muscled” the narrative through their sheer conviction.But here’s the hard truth: Early success is often a false positive.…

I expected a quiet family visit, but ended up in an assembly line of volunteers shoveling heavy mud away from flooded homes. This is the visceral reality of a record-breaking storm that has changed life on Oʻahu.A woman sits on the back of a pickup carrying a ruined mattress and other home effects after the Kona Low storm flooding that devastated the Otake Camp community in Waialua, Hawaii (Photo: Marco GARCIA / AFP via Getty Images)Published March 24, 2026 11:43AMLast week, two major storms dumped four feet of rain in Oʻahu and Maui, according to CBS. It’s the worst flooding…

There’s a restaurant in New York City called Rosa Mexicana that positions itself as a fresh take on Mexican cuisine. It’s upscale, well curated, and delicious. However, my favorite part about the dining experience is when you order guacamole, the wait-staff wheels out a little cart, draped in the traditional Mexican cloth, a vibrant sarape, and staked with fresh ingredients—avocados, lime, onion, salt, all the things. And as they arrive at your table, they make the guacamole right there in front of you. It’s quite the show, and it makes the entire dining experience better.What the restaurant has realized is…

Key Takeaways High mortgage rates and a cooler housing market are leaving more homeowners unable to sell at the price they want. This dynamic prompts them to rent out properties instead of cutting prices. A near-record share of rental listings now comes from homes that recently failed to sell, with about 2.2% of Zillow rentals comprised of these “accidental landlord” properties. Americans who can’t get the price they want for their homes are increasingly turning into “accidental landlords,” renting out properties they had hoped to sell, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.  A Zillow analysis shows…

In 2015, Disney discovered a new way to cash in on nostalgia: live-action remakes of its classic animated films. That started with Cinderella, brought back to the big screen 65 years after the original movie premiered. In the decade since, Disney has released 12 more of those remakes, with the gap between the original films’ release dates and the remakes growing shorter and shorter. The next entry is a remake of 2016’s Moana coming to theaters this July, a few months shy of the original’s 10-year anniversary.Disney remakes are designed to recapture the magic of the source material, replicating iconic…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI in the workplace is set to transition from repetitive tasks to strategic decision-making, with a focus on AI training and seeing AI as a teammate. Executives are using AI for strategic work, but there’s a gap with employee utilization that can be bridged with proper education and role enhancement. AI skills are becoming crucial across roles, leading to an emphasis on both hiring specialized talent and upskilling current employees. Many of the conversations we’re hearing around AI are still very future-focused. There’s a lot of hype around AI —…