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Adidas, Ye, and the death of DEI: A cautionary tale for corporate America

Despite a marketing narrative centering Black celebrities from pop culture and sports, former employees say that within the company, Black leaders have been marginalized: "There was a cap on how far you could go."

BYLila MacLellan

April 26, 2024

• Finance

  Buffett-owned real estate brokerage pays $250 million to settle claims that agent commissions break antitrust law

  BYPrashant Gopal and Bloomberg

• Tech

  Satya Nadella says Microsoft's AI payoff hinges on other companies doing 'the hard work' of changing their cultures

  BYRachyl Jones

• Tech

  Tesla's Elon Musk speeds past Mark Zuckerberg on the billionaires list after Meta stock plummets on its cash-sucking AI plans

  BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez

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  Meta's investors are worried about the billions it's spending on AI—but its advertising empire makes it a positive, Deutsche Bank says

  BYDylan Sloan

• Finance

  It's still a golden age of homebuilding, according to one top real estate CEO. Here's why

  BYAlena Botros

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  Raising children is way more expensive than most parents imagined—and more than half of all parents say they went into debt to pay for their kids, study shows

  BYChloe Berger

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  Meta's investors are worried about the billions it's spending on AI—but its advertising empire makes it a positive, Deutsche Bank says

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  Satya Nadella says Microsoft's AI payoff hinges on other companies doing 'the hard work' of changing their cultures

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  BYFatima Hussein and The Associated Press

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  Biden administration's 'commonsense' retirement rule could save workers $5 billion a year

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Real estate

• Finance

  Buffett-owned real estate brokerage pays $250 million to settle claims that agent commissions break antitrust law

  BYPrashant Gopal and Bloomberg

• Finance

  It's still a golden age of homebuilding, according to one top real estate CEO. Here's why

  BYAlena Botros

• Success

  Demand for office space is skyrocketing, especially in New York City and Los Angeles

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  Now might be the time to move to Florida as inventory levels surge and sellers slash prices

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Inflation

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  With inflation still high and economic growth slowing sharply we could be heading toward stagflation, a scenario 'nobody is really prepared for,' UBS exec says

  BYPaolo Confino

• Success

  Raising children is way more expensive than most parents imagined—and more than half of all parents say they went into debt to pay for their kids, study shows

  BYChloe Berger

• Finance

  Fed's favorite inflation gauge accelerated in March, spelling trouble for rate cuts—and Biden's re-election bid

  BYChristopher Rugaber and The Associated Press

• Finance

  JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says Bidenomics is only 'partially' working as many Americans aren't feeling 'lifted up by this economy'

  BYWill Daniel

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How the oil earnings of Saudi Aramco, the world's most profitable company, are helping the Saudi monarchy shake up the global economic order

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BYVivienne Walt

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  BYAlexa Mikhail

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  Aflac's CEO gave us that obnoxious, genius duck and changed the insurance industry. Now, he's facing his aging customers' mortality—and eventually his own

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  Satya Nadella says Microsoft's AI payoff hinges on other companies doing 'the hard work' of changing their cultures

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  Scientists inspired the right guardrails for nuclear energy, the internet, and DNA research. Let them do the same for AI

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The CEO and AI: What's ahead in 2024

Most CEOs plan to invest in generative AI. But some are finding it difficult to cut through the buzz and determine where to invest.

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Environment

Biden administration's tough new EPA rules would force coal-fired power plants to capture emissions or shut down

Bird flu fragments are in pasteurized milk now, but the FDA—and many other government agencies—still considers it safe

After overshadowing climate talks, the myth of 'circularity' looms over the UN plastics treaty

Finance

Exxon's profits are falling, but CEO Darren Woods' compensation rose last year—here's how the oil giant rewards its top exec

With inflation still high and economic growth slowing sharply we could be heading toward stagflation, a scenario 'nobody is really prepared for,' UBS exec says

Buffett-owned real estate brokerage pays $250 million to settle claims that agent commissions break antitrust law

Health

USDA tells poultry producers to reduce salmonella in certain chicken products to help prevent food poisoning

Minneapolis imposes $15 a pack minimum for cigarettes—$2 more than NYC—to curb smoking

New York outlaws sales of diet pills and muscle-mass builders to children

Leadership

Satya Nadella says Microsoft's AI payoff hinges on other companies doing 'the hard work' of changing their cultures

Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and more join the federal AI safety board

Scientists inspired the right guardrails for nuclear energy, the internet, and DNA research. Let them do the same for AI

Lifestyle

Adidas, Ye, and the death of DEI: A cautionary tale for corporate America

Walmart CEO started his career unloading trailers at the warehouse—he says he got promotion after promotion by raising his hand when his boss was out of town

The financial services gender pay gap in Europe is so large that fewer than one in 10 of the 2,000 highest-earning bankers are female

Personal Finance

Walmart CEO started his career unloading trailers at the warehouse—he says he got promotion after promotion by raising his hand when his boss was out of town

New York outlaws sales of diet pills and muscle-mass builders to children

FCC brings back net neutrality—'broadband is a necessity, not a luxury,' chair says

Politics

Fed's favorite inflation gauge accelerated in March, spelling trouble for rate cuts—and Biden's re-election bid

Scientists inspired the right guardrails for nuclear energy, the internet, and DNA research. Let them do the same for AI

China signals TikTok should fight 'robbers' sell-or-ban U.S. law meant 'to snatch from others all the good things that they have'. Here's what's next

Retail

Exxon's profits are falling, but CEO Darren Woods' compensation rose last year—here's how the oil giant rewards its top exec

Fed's favorite inflation gauge accelerated in March, spelling trouble for rate cuts—and Biden's re-election bid

Adidas, Ye, and the death of DEI: A cautionary tale for corporate America

Success

Owner of vaping supply business that exploded arrested while preparing to catch a one-way flight to Hong Kong

More Americans are working past age 65—and that's good news for employers

Raising children is way more expensive than most parents imagined—and more than half of all parents say they went into debt to pay for their kids, study shows

Tech

Meta's investors are worried about the billions it's spending on AI—but its advertising empire makes it a positive, Deutsche Bank says

Tesla's Elon Musk speeds past Mark Zuckerberg on the billionaires list after Meta stock plummets on its cash-sucking AI plans

Satya Nadella says Microsoft's AI payoff hinges on other companies doing 'the hard work' of changing their cultures