A few years ago, if you walked down the produce aisle in any major supermarket in the U.S., you might have seen a sticker on avocados or lemons that said “Apeel.” The label wasn’t from a grower, but from a company designed to fight food waste; by adding a food-safe, plant-based coating to the fruit, it’s possible to make it last days longer, so it’s less likely to end up in the trash.

More than three months after it announced plans to close hundreds of restaurant locations this year, Papa Johns International appears to have already made significant reductions to its national footprint. 

The workplace has a recovery problem.

Most people assume that being the most valuable person on a team means delivering the most. The best outputs. The deepest expertise. The highest score on whatever performance metric the org has decided matters this year.

As tech companies pour billions into AI, they face a growing risk: it’s incredibly unpopular. The backlash isn’t surprising. Do we really want technology that eliminates jobs, uses huge amounts of energy and water, erodes our ability to think, and poses a wide range of other risks, from making it easier for the government to surveil citizens to encouraging teen suicide? AI could obviously also be a useful tool—potentially helping develop better drugs and climate solutions, for example—but the haters have a point. And while AI may seem unstoppable, the lack of support means that it’s getting much harder for tech companies to build the new data centers that they desperately want.

Pirate’s Booty, the corn puff snack that’s been a ubiquitous part of American kids’ diets for decades, just got a rebrand that’s making some fans do a double take in grocery store aisles.

There are 12,060 reasons to clear your weekend calendar. That is the piece count of the new Lego Sagrada Família. It’s the largest, most complex Lego set ever made by piece count, designed around one of the most visually audacious buildings in history. Priced at $800, it is not for everyone, but it sure beats paying for a flight to Barcelona to fight the swarms of tourists buzzing around this iconic landmark.

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The MBA is often considered the cornerstone degree for business leaders who aspire to reach the corner office. In fact, roughly 75% of the Fortune 500’s top 20 CEOs received an MBA or some other graduate degree. The chief executives of Apple, Microsoft, Blackrock, and JPMorgan all hold MBA degrees, among countless other leaders who have risen to the top after graduating from business school or pursuing further education later in their career. As a business school professor, I see the ambition in the eyes of MBA students who aspire to be counted among tomorrow’s change makers. Although some enter the program looking for a job with higher pay or perhaps even a two-year vacation from the real world, a common trope depicted on TikTok and Instagram about the perceived unseriousness of B-school, the elite among the crop are looking for something far greater: an opportunity to lead.     

For most of human history, philosophers and scientists alike have viewed emotion as the enemy of reason. From the Stoics of Ancient Greece to modern behavioral economists, the assumption has broadly remained the same—namely that humans are obviously capable of remarkable rationality, adaptability, and intellectual sophistication, but (still) our emotions frequently sabotage those gifts at the worst possible moments.

If you haven’t experienced burnout, you’ve surely witnessed it. I have certainly taken part in conversations about someone who hit that wall of physical and emotional exhaustion at work. The sentiments are almost always the same: They were working too hard; they just didn’t know how to create a work-life balance.

I watch about a thousand companies make hiring decisions in real time as the CEO of Paraform, the world’s largest recruiting marketplace. The pattern I’ve seen over the last 18 months is so consistent that it’s no longer just a trend.

On a drizzly Saturday morning late last month, the basement of the New Paltz United Methodist Church was filled with old lamps, blunt knives, malfunctioning sound mixers, and balky zippers.

As the 90-degree sun blazed above Midtown Manhattan last Friday, a crowd flooded the entrance of Madison Square Garden, snaking out of the venue’s door—not for a concert or a game, but for merch. It was just five hours before Game 2 of the NBA finals, and the line to snag an official jersey or a cap at the Knicks’ home arena seemed to be never-ending, despite moving quickly. 

The architectural firm behind plans to remake New York City’s Penn Station unveiled its design on Monday, and renderings show a station that’s meant to be bigger, brighter, and more welcoming to the public.

Tonight, the National Hockey League’s cutest competition is back, bringing together adoptable shelter pups to celebrate the Stanley Cup and find their forever homes.

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There is no spoon—at least not on the stock market. Until now.

Your Instagram grid is getting a makeover—if you want it to, at least.

If you shopped at Trader Joe’s in mid-2019, you have until Tuesday to file a claim to be included in a $7.4 million class action lawsuit brought against the popular grocery chain. But be forewarned: Qualifying for the settlement isn’t so straightforward.