The Kansas City Chiefs were taking on the New England Patriots on September 29, 2014, when, with just eight seconds to go in the first quarter, the volume of the crowd’s roar reached 142.2 decibels. That’s about as loud as a jet engine taking off, and good enough to break the Guinness World Record for loudest crowd roar at a sports stadium. A new Chiefs stadium might help them break it again. [Rendering: courtesy Kansas City Chiefs Football Club Inc.] The Chiefs previously set the record for loudest crowd in 2013 at 137.5 decibels, which was broken later that year…
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Earlier this month, a senior executive at a global company shared a story to give me a sense of how people feel about human resources in corporate America these days. They were planning a dinner party “and someone came running into my office and said, ‘Why are you inviting the head of HR? The whole vibe’s gonna go away.’ And I was like, what are we going to be doing so wrong that HR can’t be in the room?” Although this anecdote could be read as being about one buzzkill, or even the entire HR discipline being a party nonstarter,…
Dr. Anthony Fauci, now 85 who led the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022, on July 29 refused to answer questions from senators following the release of a diary he compiled while working in government. He took the 5th Amendment to every question. He indeed could to invoke the Fifth Amendment despite receiving a presidential pardon because that covered past events, not perjury in the present. A presidential pardon generally removes the threat of federal criminal prosecution for past acts. However, it does not automatically eliminate a person’s…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Imagine if your business could deploy a team of virtual agents that not only execute repetitive tasks but also make strategic decisions, learn, collaborate and adapt in real-time to changing conditions — all at a scale that was once unattainable due to limitations in hiring, capitalization or other constraints. This is the power of agentic AI, a transformative technology that automates business processes, enabling organizations to scale operations, decision-making and innovation exponentially.In recent years, tools like Robotic Process Automation (RPA) have been deployed to automate repetitive, low-value human tasks such as data…
The Federal Reserve voted to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 3.50% to 3.75%, marking the fifth consecutive meeting without a change. Yet the 9–3 vote exposed a widening division inside the central bank, as Beth Hammack, Neel Kashkari, and Lorie Logan wanted a 25-basis-point increase. This is no longer the Federal Reserve debating whether to cut rates. The debate is shifting toward when it will be forced to raise them again. Chairman Kevin Warsh insists that the Fed remains committed to its 2% inflation objective. “There is no soft inflation target,” he told reporters. “There is no soft…
Key Takeaways Eddie Smith Jr., the 83-year-old owner of Grady-White Boats, turned down a $400 million sale and instead committed the company’s future profits to charity. Smith has kept full control of the company since buying it in 1968 and growing it into a leading producer of high-end recreational fishing boats. Under the new structure, Smith will remain at the company as chief executive emeritus and draw an annual salary of undisclosed value. In 1968, Eddie Smith Jr.’s path was far from guaranteed success or riches. That year, he took a gamble on a struggling boat company in Greenville, North…
Europe has spent decades portraying the southern nations as irresponsible debtors while presenting the north as the model of fiscal discipline. The latest Eurostat data expose that myth. Southern European governments may be heavily indebted, but the most leveraged households are concentrated in the supposedly prudent nations of northern and western Europe. Euronews reports that household debt across the European Union stood at 49.4% of GDP in 2025, compared with 50.7% across the euro area. Both ratios have declined every year since 2020, when they exceeded 60%, but that aggregate conceals an enormous divide between member states. The Netherlands has…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Putting my book on a Times Square billboard generated attention, press and congratulations — but it didn’t sell the books. The billboard only drove sales after the press turned it into a story. The ecosystem around promoting the book made the billboard an event, and that event boosted book sales. The biggest marketing mistake entrepreneurs make is believing the moment is the marketing. The moment is the catalyst. Marketing is everything you build before, around and after it. Ask yourself: What story are you creating around what you’ve made? Sales…
For more than a decade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been pursuing one of the most ambitious industrial programs attempted by any modern democracy. The “Make in India” initiative was never simply about creating jobs. It was a strategic effort to transform India from a nation known primarily for services into a manufacturing powerhouse capable of challenging China’s dominance over global supply chains. That ambition deserves far more attention than it receives. When Make in India was launched in 2014, manufacturing represented roughly 16% of India’s economy. The objective was straightforward: attract foreign investment, build domestic industry, expand exports, and…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Most employees don’t come to work planning to be dishonest — they come in trying to survive the room, and the silent editing they do to belong slowly drains creativity, communication and engagement from the team. Leaders build honesty less through speeches and more through repeated behavior: modeling self-honesty, creating predictable spaces for truth and choosing curiosity before conclusion when someone reacts, underperforms or withdraws. Most employees do not walk into work planning to be dishonest. They walk in trying to survive the room. They read the tone, notice who…