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A Quick Guide to Franchise Ownership Costs

Franchising costs money. Here's what everything means.

Don't Round the Discount!

What appeals to you more: a pair of jeans on sale for 8% off, or the same pair listed for 7.7% off? Any rational shopper will know that the 8% discount will save them more money and is the more attractive deal.

The Chevron Doctrine Is Dead. What Are the Implications for Business?

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling gives companies more opportunities to challenge regulations, but they may face more regulatory uncertainty as well.

Managing the Human Risks of Biometric Applications

The intimate surveillance afforded by biometric technologies requires managers to consider negative impacts on privacy and human dignity.

Tackling Challenges With Data Governance

Akira Bell is senior vice president and CIO at Mathematica, a research and data analytics consultancy. Bell was a finalist for this year's MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award in recognition of her work at Mathematica to spearhead the launch of the data collaboration platform Mquiry, a turnkey system for onboarding and working with clients' data securely. MIT Sloan Management Review spoke with Bell to understand her role and how leaders should be thinking about their data. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

Beating 'Not Invented Here' Syndrome

Resistance to external ideas hinders innovation. The right incentives can open minds.

How Workplace Safety Improves Performance

OSHA's longest-serving administrator identifies safety approaches that work and those that don't.

Build the Right C-Suite Team for Your Strategy

CEOs can foster a more effective leadership team by understanding when to tap senior executives' competitive instincts and when to encourage collaboration.

Where To Next? Opportunity on the Edge

Doing business in regions considered less stable or developed can pay off for companies. But they must invest in working with local communities.

it takes a village

Revolutionizing multifamily living and bolstering property profitability

OPEN MINDS

WHAT RESCHEDULING WILL MEAN FOR MEDICINAL CANNABIS RESEARCH

MAKE THE MONEY LAST

OUTLIVING OUR SAVINGS IS THE NO. 1 RETIREMENT CONCERN. THESE ARE SOME WAYS TO OVERCOME THAT.

GREAT EYES ON THE SKY

Exciting developments in the search for extraterrestrial life

Soft Skills & SOFTWARE

There's a lot AI can do for businesses. There's a lot only humans can do. Striking the balance will deliver success.

WHAT CAN BOTS DO FOR YOU?

The dream of an autonomous supply chain

Natural Selections

Balancing synthetic biology with sustainable materials production

FLIPPING THE RETAIL SCRIPT FOR GOOD

SPECIALTY RETAILER ALTAR'D STATE IS HOT. HERE'S HOW THEY'RE REBUILDING THEIR IT TO ACCOMMODATE THE BLAZE.

The Ultimate Integration

Rackspace Technology is propelling the industry forward with game-changing innovations in Cloud, Data Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence

COLD CONFIDENCE

FOOD INDUSTRY FAVORITE FREZ-N-STOR IS GLIDING INTO A VERY CHILL FUTURE

United Site Services: Procurement Progression

With their digital evolution underway, the portable sanitation powerhouse is rethinking their approach to procurement and sourcing - and change management is just one key to its success

What's Your Flavor?

Personalizing food with the power of Al

KKR's $1 trillion gamble

The co-CEOs of KKR have a radical strategy to supercharge growth—and chart a path far different from that of their mentors Kravis and Roberts.

The startups betting you can quit GLP-1s and stay thin

Some weight-loss companies are marketing Ozempic and Wegovy as a short-term holy grail. Doctors say it doesn't work that way.

The troubled Tyson heir

The youngest Fortune 500 CFO was set up to run his family’s $21 billion chicken empire. His erratic behavior could change that.

Inside one of Silicon Valley's most mysterious venture capital funds

Iconiq Growth, which has long avoided the spotlight, recently closed a $5.8 billion startup war chest.

The rise and fall of Jump Crypto

A secretive trading firm got itself a crypto arm and a 25-year-old whiz kid to run it. Then came the $40 billion Terra disaster.

The Amazon Way has its midlife crisis

Jeff Bezos’s famed management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon. Can they survive the Andy Jassy era?

Well the Fortune 50 Best Places to Live Will Serve Families in the Years to Come - When 51-year-old Pazit Aviv walks her dog in her Silver Spring, Md., neighborhood, it takes an extra 30 minutes as she inevitably gets lost in an impromptu chat with a neighbor.

“What we’re seeing is a longing of older people to age in place, and younger people, like Gen Z, to have a sense of place that they consider home,” says Jon Jon Wesolowski, an urbanist and housing advocate who sees more people eager to change their house to suit them as they age rather than to move.In this year’s ranking, we analyzed over 2,000 cities and nearly 200 data categories, assessing livability, financial health, resources for aging adults, education, and wellness. The winners are communities that are sustainable for their youngest and oldest residents—including many fast-growing suburbs and edge cities that find creative ways to improve people’s well-being.

Tech AI's Hidden Biases May Be Influencing What You Think. Here's What Should Be Done to Stop It - In less than two years, artificial intelligence has radically changed how many people write and find information.

In less than two years, artificial intelligence has radically changed how many people write and find information. While searching for details about Supreme Court precedent or polishing a college essay, millions seek help from AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Anthropic's Claude.In his newly published book, Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future, Fortune AI editor Jeremy Kahn explores this new tech-infused reality and what should be done to avert the inevitable pitfalls. In the following excerpt, he focuses on the little-recognized problem of subtle bias in AI and the potentially profound influence it can have on what users believe.

2024 Election Vanceonomics: What Trump's VP Pick Could Mean for Business - Vance has cultivated some of the wealthiest elites in tech and venture capital—including former Google chairman Eric Schmidt and the billionaire VC Peter Thiel—to help him win a U.S. Senate seat and, in July, the Republican nomination for vice president.

J.D. Vance first caught the public’s attention with his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, a populist howl about Appalachia that accuses elites of betraying the white working class. Since then, Vance has cultivated some of the wealthiest elites in tech and venture capital—including former Google chairman Eric Schmidt and the billionaire VC Peter Thiel—to help him win a U.S. Senate seat and, in July, the Republican nomination for vice president.