U.S. President Donald Trump intervened on behalf of star U.S. forward Folarin Balogun, whose red-card suspension was lifted in a decision that allows him to play in a World Cup match against Belgium on Monday.Balogun, the American leader with three goals in the tournament, received a red card for stepping awkwardly on the right ankle of Tarik Muharemović of Bosnia-Herzegovina in a 2-0 round of 32 win on Wednesday, triggering an automatic one-game suspension.FIFA announced Sunday that the suspension had been lifted for the round of 16 match, an extraordinary move that triggered praise from Trump and outrage from Belgium’s…
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What’s your number? This is the first question I ask when considering a new hire. I expect those I ask to know what it costs for them to live—not just to survive, but to thrive. I start with this question because it gives me a chance to understand a prospective employee’s expectations and needs, and to assess my ability to meet them. Since 2018, I have worked with close to 2,000 high school students, providing them with paid summer work experience. Most had never considered their number before. I also mentor many young Gen Zers who are now finishing college…
A shampoo manufacturer has initiated a nationwide recall of two of its products due to concerns that the shampoos may be contaminated with a drug-resistant bacterium that could harm users. Here’s what you need to know about the shampoo recall and the bacterium at the center of it. What’s happened? Last week, the consumer products company, Kao USA Inc., announced a voluntary recall of two products made by its subsidiary Oribe, which makes various haircare products, including shampoos and conditioners. One day after Kao announced the recall, the US. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted the recall notice on its…
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. Mark Bertolini is no stranger to scale. When he was CEO of Aetna, he helped orchestrate the health insurer’s 2018 sale to CVS Health for $69 billion. In 2022, he became co-CEO of the hedge fund Bridgewater, which had $168 billion in assets under management…
“The engine that we have now could have probably taken seven years and up to half a billion dollars,” Stan Rudenko tells me over a video call from Abu Dhabi. “In our collaboration, it basically took half a year . . . and we already have a first version. It’s mind-blowing.” Rudenko is the CEO of Aspire Space Technologies, and the collaboration he’s talking about is with Leap 71, a Dubai-based computational engineering startup founded by the aerospace engineer Josefine Lissner and the entrepreneur Lin Kayser. They have formed an almost sci-fi alliance: A team staffed by the legends of…
One of the most frustrating things I hear from leaders is, “We had a great strategy, but just couldn’t execute it.” Clearly, if it was a great strategy, you would be able to execute it. If you couldn’t, you made bad assumptions about your capabilities, the competition, the marketplace, or something else. This is related to an insight from the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. He argued that we cannot have a private language that exists only inside our own minds. Unless we can express an idea in a public context, it remains little more than a feeling that we have not…
Europe’s united front behind Zelensky is beginning to crack, and this time it is not because of money or weapons. It is because of history. The Czech opposition party SPD has demanded that President Petr Pavel revoke the Order of the White Lion, the country’s highest state honor, that was awarded to Volodymyr Zelensky. The demand came after Zelensky approved naming Ukraine’s 225th Separate Assault Regiment after the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), a movement whose factions collaborated with Nazi Germany during the Second World War and whose legacy remains deeply divisive throughout Central Europe. SPD chairman Jindřich Rajchl declared…
People wonder why I devoted an entire Agricultural Report to food security. It was never simply about crops. Agriculture has become another battlefield where governments, multinational corporations, and unelected organizations all believe they have the right to dictate what people eat, what farmers grow, and ultimately who controls the food supply. History has always shown that whoever controls food controls society. That lesson has never changed. Now researchers have found another reason for concern. A new study published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy found that exposure to glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, may increase antibiotic resistance in…
Women spend twice as many hours per week as men on childcare and household work combined, and it starts before the alarm stops buzzing. A typical morning for me looks like waking the kids, discovering my son’s Spirit Week shirt still in the hamper, starting laundry, making breakfast I then don’t eat, realizing we’re out of cereal and adding it to the grocery list, and reminding myself to order a birthday gift, all while watching the clock for the 7:15 a.m. bus. Some version of this plays out for women everywhere, every morning, before they get to their desks. Then…
For years, I have warned that technology would become the government’s greatest surveillance tool. Politicians always promise new powers will only be used against criminals. Then those same powers gradually expand until everyone becomes a potential suspect. History never changes because governments never voluntarily surrender authority once they obtain it. The U.S. Supreme Court has now delivered one of the most important privacy decisions in years. In a 6-3 ruling, the Court held that law enforcement’s use of geofence warrants constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. Justice Elena Kagan wrote that people do not surrender their constitutional right to…