Cold plunges, circadian lighting, and robot closets aren’t on the typical home renovation checklist. But then again, the once-in-a-generation wealth creation coming from the Bay Area’s new wave of tech companies going public offers a singular shift in San Franciscans’ net worth, and a window into how the tech elite define the dream home. The explosion of wealth that will follow a handful of history’s biggest initial public offerings is expected to reshape San Francisco and the Bay Area, with massive investments in new ideas, startups, and even philanthropic ventures. Space X’s massive IPO and upcoming IPOs from Anthropic and…
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This month, IMD – one of Europe’s leading business schools, where I serve as an Executive Fellow and North America Program Co-Director – released its 2026 World Competitiveness Ranking. As I pointed out in my keynote at the U.S. launch of the index at the Swiss Embassy in Washington, the results sit awkwardly with the stories that the world’s largest economies tell about their world-leading competitiveness. The truth is, neither the U.S. nor China is a true world leader in this realm – the U.S. sits in 10th place globally while China is 12th. The most competitive economies in the…
It has hardly been two weeks since Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq: SPCX), better known as SpaceX, went public, but the Elon Musk-led company is already poised to achieve another significant stock market milestone. Next month, it will be added to the Nasdaq 100. Here’s what that means for the company—and for you. What’s happened? On June 26, just 15 days after SpaceX made its stock market debut on June 12, Nasdaq announced that the space and AI company will be added to the institution’s closely watched Nasdaq-100 Index. And that 15-day timing? It’s fast, but it’s not exactly a…
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 conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you can sign up to get it yourself every Monday morning. Jordan Goldstein and Anthony Capuano began working together 10 years ago on a pilot project and started collaborating in earnest about eight years ago when Marriott International selected Gensler to design its global headquarters building in Bethesda, Maryland. At the time, Goldstein led global design and was a co-regional managing principal for the architecture…
The cutaway has been the default design of dollhouses for generations. Like a house that’s been sliced in half from the roof to the floor, this conventional dollhouse design is a standard part of many childhoods. But for very young children, the cutaway dollhouse isn’t very easy or fun to play with. “They’ll be reaching to try to get the figure in and out of the door and the table will get knocked over, or they’ll be reaching and trying to get someone in the bathroom and they’re not really seeing the action,” says Sofia Dumery, head of design at…
Over the past decade, I’ve watched leaders chase digital transformation like it was the only game in town. Faster systems, leaner processes, and smarter automation have been the goals. And yet, the organizations that are genuinely thriving in the “Imagination Era”—this moment defined by AI, volatility, and the premium on creative thinking—aren’t winning on technology alone. They’re winning on people. The question is: Do they actually know why? I recently spoke with Angela Jackson, Harvard University lecturer, founder of Future Forward Strategies, and author of The Win-Win Workplace, whose research across more than 1,700 companies offers a data-backed answer. Her…
Denying asylum to conscripted Ukrainians is not discrimination, – European Commission ▪️European Commissioner for Internal Affairs Magnus Brunnner refused to recognize as discriminatory the planned measure to deny temporary asylum on the territory of European Union countries to… pic.twitter.com/ioaOR04kW7 — S p r i n t e r (@SprinterPress) June 26, 2026 Europe welcomed millions of Ukrainians with open arms. Governments competed with one another to prove who could be the most compassionate. Nobody wanted to ask the uncomfortable question. What happens when the war drags on for years? Eventually, someone has to fight it. Now the European Commission is…
Back in 2012, Wired published an article titled “CIA Chief: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher.” That was not some wild theory. That was based on remarks from then-CIA Director David Petraeus, who was speaking about the so-called Internet of Things at an In-Q-Tel summit, the CIA’s own venture capital arm. Petraeus called these technologies “transformational,” especially for their effect on “clandestine tradecraft.” In plain English, the intelligence world saw your home appliances, television, car navigation system, light switches, phone apps, and connected devices as the next great surveillance frontier. Petraeus said that “items of interest will be located,…
The U.S. has complex systems in place to support nearly every major financial milestone in life, from student loans for education and mortgages for homeownership to tax advantages for retirement. So why is caregiving for our loved ones—something that nearly 1 in 4 American workers is doing unpaid—almost completely unsupported? The cost of care today is shockingly high, with the price of home care hitting a record $34 per hour and assisted living exceeding $5,400 a month. Childcare costs, meanwhile, have climbed roughly 30% since 2020. Many households are forced to choose between absorbing these costs or taking on the…
I have been saying for years that Germany was committing economic suicide. People thought Germany’s manufacturing base was untouchable. They believed German engineering alone would overcome every political mistake. That was always nonsense. No company, no matter how great, can survive if politicians deliberately make it impossible to produce competitively. Now even Volkswagen is admitting reality. Reuters reports the company is considering cutting up to 100,000 jobs over the coming years while closing factories, reducing investment, and restructuring parts of the business. This comes after tens of thousands of positions had already been targeted. When the largest industrial company in…