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CEO of 101-Year-Old Company That Has Never Laid Off Workers Says Mass Layoffs Are a Choice, Not a Necessity

Torani CEO Melanie Dulbecco explains how the 101-year-old syrup maker avoided layoffs during COVID-19 by cutting costs, adapting sales, and using technology.

International Business Times UK · 24m ago

Biotech firm Rakuten Medical wants to bring its novel 'lightsaber' cancer cure to the U.S.

In the short-term, the firm is looking to enter markets close to home—including Taiwan, Macau, Singapore, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia.

Fortune · 4h ago

Facebook’s cofounder never wanted to be the boss: Like 82% of managers, Dustin Moskovitz fell into the job—and found it ‘quite exhausting’

Some were born to lead. But many are just “accidental managers.” Take Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz, who says he never intended to manage people.

Fortune · 20h ago

The U.S. military and NASA have power problems. Nuclear microreactors might solve both

Microreactors could power military operations from the Arctic to the moon—and even fuel the search for extraterrestrial life.

Fortune · Oct 25

Jeff Bezos took 60 meetings to raise Amazon’s first $1 million. Now worth $361 billion, he says the cure for stress is to ‘take the first step’

Bezos worked through decades of stress to build the No. 1 Fortune 500 company.

Fortune · Oct 24

Here’s how much it costs to raise a child in every state in 2026: Where you live can impact the bill by more than $200,000

LendingTree pegs the 18-year cost of raising a child above $300,000 for the first time, but where you live can swing the bill by more than $210,000.

Fortune · Oct 24

Scammers used AI to clone her daughter’s voice and fake a kidnapping. A voice expert says every family needs a safe word

A marketing professor who studies voice and persuasion says a familiar voice lowers our defenses. Here’s the simple fix she recommends.

Fortune · Oct 24

How a close look at the American Dream turned a top happiness expert into a specialist in despair: 'It’s harder to be poor in a very rich country'

Brookings’ Carol Graham has spent decades measuring outcomes. Here's how her study of happiness led to work on despair — and what hope has to do with it.

Fortune · Oct 24

She has $2.6 billion but still works 14 hours a day: Why the world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire can't slow down

Luana Lopes Lara, the 30-year-old co-founder and COO of Kalshi, has an estimated net worth of $2.6 billion and is the world's youngest self-made female billionaire. Despite her wealth, she continues to work 12 to 14 hours a day and rarely takes time off. In an interview with Fortune, Lara…

The Economic Times · Oct 24

‘Sudden wealth syndrome 2.0’: Therapists say AI’s new multimillionaires feel guilty, isolated and cut off from everyone else

The therapists who coined the term during the dot-com boom say the AI windfall has brought it roaring back—with more guilt, more isolation and a cottage industry ready to treat it.

Fortune · Oct 24