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 …
One of the first things I noticed when I went to live in former Eastern Bloc countries was how often conspiracy theories came up in everyday conversation. The institutions of society had lost trust long ago, so the official version of anything was alw…
As summer begins, many college students are getting ready to dip a toe in the sea of work by taking on an internship. These internships play a few important roles. For many interns, this is the first time that they are venturing out of the safe confin…
With Gen Z students struggling to read, academics have been forced to adapt—a move critics describe as “coddling” the next generation of workers.
The new father is working out how to balance business and the “significantly underhyped” experience of raising a child.
Allison Sheehan left her full-time job as a Wall Street wealth manager to scale her cake business, with a CPG brand on the horizon: Alleycat Baking Co.
Just 16% of U.S. adults say they feel financially fulfilled, and experts say the anxiety gripping everyone else often has little to do with what’s actually in their bank accounts.
Most leaders approach layoffs as a messaging problem. What do we say? How do we say it? How do we avoid panic, legal risk, or reputational damage?
But that framing misses what’s actually at stake.
Layoffs are moments when employees decide …
When I became a mother, I closed my office door. Not dramatically—no manifesto, no announcement. I just needed to get more work done in less time, and open doors invite conversations that consume minutes I no longer had. Before my daughter was born, I…
“Without the demand and without that scale from the market, these companies are not able to really go into mass production.”
