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Why Issa Rae is one of Fast Company’s 10 most innovative people of the last...
This story is part of a special series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fast Company Innovation Festival. Issa Rae told an interviewer on the 2017 Emmy Awards red carpet that she was “rooting...
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Why FTC chair Lina Khan is one of Fast Company’s 10 most innovative people of...
This story is part of a special series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fast Company Innovation Festival. Before she became the youngest head of the Federal Trade Commission in history in 2021...
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Why Pat McGrath is one of Fast Company’s 10 most innovative people of the...
This story is part of a special series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fast Company Innovation Festival. When makeup artist Pat McGrath launched her eponymous beauty line in 2015, she included...
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Why Satya Nadella is one of Fast Company’s 10 most innovative people of the...
This story is part of a special series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fast Company Innovation Festival. Ask Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about his approach to innovation, and he tends to...
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Why Sara Nelson is one of Fast Company’s 10 most innovative people of the...
This story is part of a special series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fast Company Innovation Festival. Ten years ago, when Sara Nelson was elected president of the Association of Flight...
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Why Ryan Reynolds is one of Fast Company’s 10 most innovative people of the...
This story is part of a special series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fast Company Innovation Festival. By now, it’s the stuff of legend. Ryan Reynolds had been trying to get Deadpool made...
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Why Lin-Manuel Miranda is one of Fast Company’s 10 most innovative people of...
This story is part of a special series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fast Company Innovation Festival. When Hamilton debuted off Broadway in 2015, telling America’s founding story through...
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Why José Andrés is one of Fast Company’s 10 most innovative people of the...
This story is part of a special series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fast Company Innovation Festival. Through his more than three dozen restaurants, various TV series and specials, and...
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Why Jennifer Doudna is one of Fast Company’s 10 most innovative people of the...
This story is part of a special series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fast Company Innovation Festival. When biochemist Jennifer Doudna and her research partner, Emmanuelle Charpentier,...
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Why Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos is one of the 10 most innovative people of...
This story is part of a special series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fast Company Innovation Festival. Ted Sarandos stepped off an electric golf cart in the Albuquerque summer heat, ducked...
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This brilliant font is made entirely out of backslashes
Behind the design of almost every typeface is an effort to balance curves with hard edges. But a new typeface from the agency Cotton Design uses just one shape—the backslash—to form every single letter...
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The floral scent of your body wash is likely made from chemicals. This pilot...
At Bridge Farm Group in England’s Lincolnshire County, rows and rows of roses, petunias, and marigolds fill the company’s 60-acre glasshouse. About 90 million such plants will make their way to...
View ArticleCan drive offset your burnout at work?
People assume that drive depletes energy. They believe that level of intensity, focus and daily effort leads to burnout. What is burnout, really? Burnout...
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It’s not your imagination. Donald Trump is less orange
Trump’s unmistakable look is born from a kit of parts: His swooping hair. His red tie and blue suit. His frequent MAGA hat. But one quirk stands out above the rest. It’s a distraction at best, and a...
View ArticleHow Noplace channeled early Facebook to reach Gen Z
A new social media app has captivated Gen Z—not by introducing something revolutionary, but by tapping into something familiar. Founder and CEO of Noplace Tiffany Zhong shares why bringing back the...
View ArticleTikTok’s hot passport photo trend is causing headaches at airports
Does anyone ever look good in their passport photo? Surprisingly, some do—but it’s leading to some unexpectedly humbling outcomes. “This is why you should never do hot photos for your passport,”...
View ArticleWe’re compiling the definitive guide to the best in business
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week, this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from...
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How accurate is ‘Industry’? Sizing up the HBO hit’s portrayal of investment...
Wall Street doesn’t want to talk about Industry. The HBO series, currently airing its third season, dramatizes the machinations of power-hungry London investment bankers. Its traders are relentless...
View ArticleBest Workplaces for Innovators 2024: Healthcare
Winner: SCAN Long Beach, CA Members of an employee resource group at the health plan development company proposed an idea that led to the first Medicare Advantage Plan for LGBTQ+ seniors. Finalists:...
View ArticleBest Workplaces for Innovators 2024: Food and agriculture
Winner: Chick-fil-A Atlanta The fast-food chain’s organizational model seeks innovations from operator locations, like one Miami owner-operator’s three-day workweek (three 12-hour shifts, with a...
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