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Scott Kirby on Newark, safety & customer care

Scott Kirby: Airplanes are a lot faster than the 1950s. The flight times from Atlanta to LaGuardia are longer than they were in the 1950s. While this became a story about Newark and staffing about...

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How to identify great leaders & find your why

Simon Sinek: I always treated my business like a social movement, still do. The people who are on the receiving end, it really becomes theirs. They take ownership. Reid Hoffman: There might not be...

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The 2 million volunteers fixing immigration

NAZANIN ASH: This is like what Airbnb and Lyft and Uber did. We require net immigration of nearly one and a half million a year just to sustain our economy. This is a problem that’s way too big for...

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Inside Trump’s crackdown on colleges

EVAN GOLDSTEIN: For years, the public perception of higher ed has been sagging, especially among self-identified conservatives. Universities are on much weaker ground when making their case because...

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The one trait every leader needs today

STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL: Character, first, is the essence of who we are. It is the most important measure of us and of our lives. Regardless of what you proclaim to be your character, if you don’t have the...

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Lyft’s bold plan to overtake Uber in the race for rideshare’s future

DAVID RISHER: There’s almost this gravitational pull for all sorts of reasons for products and services to get worse. You have to fight against that, you got to fight really hard. If you don’t, you can...

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Marc Lore wants an AI superapp to plan all your meals

MARC LORE: I’m about 90% of my meals are all AI derived. So AI tells me what to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That’s based on the health goals and based on the foods I love. It basically tells...

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From warzones to boardrooms: José Andrés on leadership learned in the kitchen

JOSÉ ANDRÉS: Humans, we’ve been building, post-World War II, a good world, a good world that, in America, is full of imperfections, and that we need to work together to fix them, of course, but you...

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Finding opportunity in volatility

SCOTT STRAZIK: We are not going to suck our thumbs and cry on our beer as things kind of change. We want to use change as an opportunity to improve. Now, tariffs can create cost challenges. We’re not...

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When powerful law firms don’t defend themselves against Trump

BOB SAFIAN: Hi, everyone. We have a special episode today about the world’s biggest law firms, which people don’t always think about as businesses, but they have tremendous economic weight. As advisors...

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Facing a blitz of government attacks

ALEXIS McGILL JOHNSON: At every level of government, we are under attack. They’re coming for us even when they know it’s not popular. I know it’s hard for corporations to take a stand in this moment. I...

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From data breach scandal to AI darling

SRIDHAR RAMASWAMY: Just separating out what is real from what is hype, I think, is very hard, and I don’t think the AI industry helps itself with things like not talking about hallucination rates or...

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The new meaning of patriotism in business

CARLA VERNÓN: Do business leaders need to show up and be voicing the change, advocating their shareholder or their employee base? Most certainly. It’s not just our politicians. It’s not just our...

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Public radio vs. DOGE: NPR CEO Katherine Maher previews her testimony

BOB SAFIAN: Hey, everyone. We have a special episode today with Katherine Maher, CEO of NPR. Katherine has been called to Capitol Hill tomorrow, Wednesday, March 26th to answer questions before a DOGE...

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Anger, frustration & tariffs: Inside global trade disruption

RYAN PETERSEN: We knew there would be tariffs coming, at least on China. Canada caught us by surprise. If they’re going to put tariffs on Canada, then there’s probably no safe haven. There’s a little...

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Connecting to a fractured audience

BOB SAFIAN: Hi everybody. Today’s episode is with Erika Ayers Badan of Food52, as she heads into her second year leading the food media and lifestyle brand. Since we recorded the interview, Erika’s...

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Nonprofits navigate Trump’s drastic funding cuts

STACY PALMER: We’ve just never seen something this nasty. The anger, the kind of feeling that none of this aid matters, it’s deeply disturbing to people, really of any ideology because they don’t see...

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Can the NWSL make women’s soccer bigger than the NFL?

JESSICA BERMAN: We’ve transformed women’s sports and women’s soccer globally forever. Our owners, who are now the same owners who many of whom own NFL teams, NBA teams, tell us that their vision for...

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Leveraging celebrity culture to sustain an iconic brand

MICHELLE EBANKS: To take the stage of the Apollo, you are stepping inside history. It is why Bruno Mars wanted to perform on top of the marquee, why Paul McCartney, when the Beatles came in the ’60s to...

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Kickstarter 2.0: Expanding far beyond crowdfunding

EVERETTE TAYLOR: We have millions of people using Kickstarter every day. We have all these competitors are popping up and things like that, trying to come take shots at the throne. It comes with the...

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