Sustainable growth comes from creating value first for employees and customers. Get the order wrong and you burn through your future. Annette Franz on October 2, 2025 Most leaders talk about value like it’s a buzzword, but here’s the brutal truth: Many companies aren’t creating value — they are strip-mining it. Squeezing customers with … Continue reading Thriving businesses create value, dying businesses strip-mine it
September 02, 2025 Ann Arbor is reinventing the power company BY Adele Peters Most new renewable energy projects take the form of massive wind or solar farms. Ann Arbor, Michigan, is trying something different: a new city-owned utility is building a local power network within city limits, made up of solar microgrids and geothermal energy installed … Continue reading Ann Arbor is reinventing the power company
March 21, 2025 From side project to core strategy BY Jacek Siadkowski Is technology a hero or a villain? That question keeps coming back to me. Especially now, as the world watches the ripple effects of the USAID funding freeze and the relentless wave of climate disasters. Tech companies sit right at the heart of these … Continue reading From side project to core strategy
Missoula-based onXmaps is bucking sluggish trends in the tech industry with quadruple-digit revenue growth in the past six years. BY Anna-Louise Jackson Paper maps may have made a bit of a comeback lately, but let’s face it: for most of us, they’re no match for the convenience of Google Maps or Apple Maps. That convenience, however, … Continue reading The Montana-based mapping company turning hikers into confident explorers
CD Projekt Red confirms it recast Ciri’s voice actor for The Witcher 4 Ciri is now voiced by Ciara Berkeley. cheyenne macdonald Mon, Dec 16, 2024 CD Projekt Red CD Projekt Red took us by surprise when it dropped a cinematic trailer for The Witcher 4 at The Game Awards, revealing Ciri … Continue reading CD Projekt Red confirms it recast Ciri’s voice actor for The Witcher 4
PFAS compounds have carbon-fluorine bonds, one of the strongest in chemistry. BY The Conversation Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, have earned the nickname “forever chemicals” from their extraordinary ability to stick around in the environment long after they’ve been used. These synthetic compounds, commonly used in consumer products and industrial applications for their water- and … Continue reading ‘Forever chemicals’ are hard to break down, but light works
The semiconductor giant’s Q4 results underwhelm analysts on total revenue, but skyrocketing AI sales spur a stock rally that places Broadcom among America’s tech elite. BY Michael Grothaus Shares in the semiconductor giant Broadcom (Nasdaq: AVGO) are urging in early market trading this morning after the company announced its Q4 2024 earnings, in which it revealed … Continue reading Broadcom enters the trillion-dollar club on AI strength
Five ways to strike the right balance with employees—and work habits. BY Honghao Deng Just when the return to office (RTO) discussions seemed to have subsided, some large employers have come forward with mandates requiring employees to be in the office full-time. This revived the pandemic-centric headlines and discussions among employees about rage-applying for new jobs, … Continue reading RTO doesn’t have to be polarizing
November 21, 2024 Elon Musk said what a lot of CEOs think: RTO mandates are meant to make you quit In an op-ed this week, Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy suggested that requiring federal workers to return to the office would ‘result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome.’ BY Pavithra Mohan Writing in the … Continue reading Elon Musk said what a lot of CEOs think: RTO mandates are meant to make you quit
November 16, 2024 Trump’s new DOGE task force is tailor-made to benefit Elon Musk’s businesses With the new Department of Government Efficiency, Musk would be gutting agencies that are responsible for enforcing the law against him. BY Jay Willis On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump named Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as cochairs of a new Department … Continue reading Trump’s new DOGE task force is tailor-made to benefit Elon Musk’s businesses
