On September 12, 2015, more than three dozen health experts and diplomats assembled at the Palais des Nations, the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, for a day-long conference on preparing for pandemics. The bio book for the event, hosted…
Like many CEOs, Gary Shapiro, the executive chair and former CEO of U.S. trade association Consumer Technology Association, has one make-or-break interview question he asks hopeful new hires—and says he will turn candidates down if they answer it wrong. Picture…
Cristiano Amon won’t tell you what’s coming, but he’ll tell you who’s building it. “There are some secret form factors that I cannot tell you about,” the Qualcomm CEO said in an interview with Fortune Editor in Chief Alyson Shontell…
In September 1960, John Updike sat in the Fenway Park stands and watched Ted Williams take his final at-bat. He drove a fastball 440 feet over the right-centerfield wall, rounded the bases head down and disciplined, and ran straight into…
By the start of 2000, I was already a veteran writer for Fortune warning our readers that the dot.com craze had lifted Nasdaq valuations to unsustainable highs. All of the time-honored metrics pointed to the same outcome—crash ahead! Then, AOL…
There is a genre of content on social media where people sit in front of a camera and read their credit card balances out loud—and not from one card, but all of them. $7,500 on one, $8,900 on another, $10,000…
Capella Hotel Group, the ultra-luxury hotel group that once played host to the leaders of two nuclear powers, is pursuing more aggressive growth with plans to double its portfolio by 2030 with new ventures in Europe and the Middle East.…
In 2017, Brian Schimpf was in the California desert with an engineering problem to solve. The place was Apple Valley, expansive, sandy, and surreal. Schimpf—CEO and cofounder of Anduril, then a startup in the truest sense of the word—had been…
Here’s the thing about the gas crisis nobody is talking about: it’s not making companies travel less, it’s making them pay more to do less. According to Q1 2026 numbers from SAP Concur, the platform that processes travel and expense…
A prolonged war in Iran will bump the odds of inflation while simultaneously forcing a slowdown in consumer demand. All of this is troubling for the chief executive of container shipping giant Maersk, who warned that deadly combination is already rocking…