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Saint Bernards have a long legacy as rescue dogs in the Swiss Alps. Now you can take a hike with the dogs that still patrol the mountains. (Photo: Courtesy of Barry Foundation)Published August 18, 2026 09:56AMHigh in the Swiss Alps above Bourg-Saint-Pierre not far from the Italian border, are hiking routes that wend through alpine passes, high-altitude meadows, and lakes that perfectly reflect the wide blue expanse of sky. But here, there are more than show-stopping vistas: The hills are brimming with living history, too—of the furry, four-legged variety.Near the aptly-named Great Saint Bernard Pass, sweet-faced Saint Bernards accompany hikers…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Delsia Bare and her mother, Ida Huddleston, agreed to sell their Kentucky farmland to an unnamed company for $26.48 million. Then they found out it was for a 2.2-gigawatt AI data center. That was the deal breaker, according to the Wall Street Journal. Bare said she believes AI could be “the destruction of the human race” and sees staying on her land as a biblical duty. Huddleston was put off by the NDA clause of the contract and simply didn’t want to leave the routine of her daily life. “Even if I…

Cold water immersion is the best way to stave off heat stroke. The Phoenix Fire Department recently used its mobile cold plunge to save a stricken hiker. Members of the Phoenix Fire Department demonstrate how to use the mobile cold plunge (Photo: Courtesy Phoenix Fire Department)Published August 18, 2026 03:44AMMove over, Wim Hof. Rescuers in Phoenix, Arizona, are using mobile cold plunges to save overheated hikers when temperatures soar. And now, members of the Phoenix Fire Department make sure to bring the devices—which look like a cross between a plastic tarp and a sleeping bag—along to every call in the…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Don’t assume “always hiring” means growth or that the business is booming. More often, it means the same jobs are emptying out as fast as you fill them. In most hourly businesses, the schedule isn’t built around demand; it’s built around last week’s schedule. Customer traffic changes constantly, but the schedule often doesn’t. This leaves some shifts overstaffed and others scrambling, which drives the roughly 40% of hourly hires who quit within their first 72 hours. Most operators lack confidence that their labor dollars are being deployed where they’ll have…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways What most leaders call agility is actually noise: constant motion and urgency without repeatable results, which is churn rather than speed. Real speed comes from unglamorous fundamentals — clear decision ownership, defined ways of working and tight coordination — because organizations move fastest when people spend less time recalibrating and more time executing. Most leaders who say they want speed are actually building the opposite. They remove structure, push decision-making down and celebrate autonomy. It feels fast. It looks modern. It signals trust. It also creates confusion, rework and slower…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Every entrepreneur hopes that a great product or service can stand on its own; that it can be successful enough to help them grow their business and personal profile. Unfortunately, such successes tend to be the exception rather than the rule. As Tyler Wagner, founder of Authors Unite, explains, entrepreneurs typically need much more than a great product to achieve long-term results. They need a platform. And by delivering value through personal, authoritative content, they can achieve exactly that. The Danger of Product-Only Thinking While the product or service is usually the…

Key Takeaways Britt Riley, founder and CEO of childcare company Haven, has created a network of clubs that offer daycare, workspace and fitness for families. She mandates that her employees take two weeks of vacation per year, one week in the summer and one week at the end of the year. Riley shuts down her business for those two weeks, creating no opportunity for her employees to work or feel like they are missing out. Britt Riley, founder and CEO of childcare company Haven, designed her company with rest in mind. She has spent the past seven years creating a…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways If your business can’t exist without you, you don’t have a business — you have a personality with a payroll. Real businesses build in repeatability. They develop a culture that holds regardless of any one person’s mood or bandwidth on a particular day. They build a genuinely recognizable brand. Sit through enough award stages at real estate conferences, and the script starts to repeat itself. Three hundred deals closed last year. Twenty-five agents on the roster. Two hundred million in volume. Everyone claps, a few people scribble the number down,…

Key Takeaways Spence founded Samir Grey to honor his mother and other women in his life. When Beyoncé’s mom posted a video featuring Spence’s fragrance, sales spiked and inventory sold out. Now, Spence continues to engage with the robust fragrance community online and grow the brand. Kahh Spence spent more than a decade working as a celebrity hairstylist and beauty expert before writing his next chapter as an entrepreneur — but he didn’t start the business many expected of him. Image Credit: Courtesy of Samir Grey. Kahh Spence. Although applying his expertise to a haircare brand might have seemed like…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Personal transformation ranks as the second most-wanted AI outcome, right behind professional excellence. Most AI players are selling productivity first. Almost none are pitching “this will make you a stronger version of yourself.” This gap is an opportunity for brands. Fortunately, there is a countertrend worth watching: AI built explicitly to build the user up rather than make itself indispensable. Long before AI showed up in most people’s lives, it already had a reputation. For a lot of people, that reputation is Skynet, the AI from the Terminator movies that…