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The Amazon Effect

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Big Tech Won’t Save Us • Societal problems only seem to get worse when Silicon Valley puts its mind to fixing them. But there is a glimmer of hope.

MODERN PROBLEMS • A status update on the tech industry’s progress ameliorating the issues it’s exacerbated

Fake Everything • More and more of what we eat (and wear) is coming from bioreactors rather than traditional farms.

Know When to Hold ’Em • Universal Pictures’ Donna Langley acted fast to save the studio’s tentpole films. But, as she explains, the business was changing anyway.

MAKING NICHE CONTENT UNIVERSAL • Langley has a strategy of “super-serving an underserved audience.” Here are some successes.

Rethinking the power of nutrition • KATE FARMS’ INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO NUTRITION OFFERS A NEW OPTION FOR PEOPLE WITH HEALTH CONDITIONS OR ON A WELLNESS JOURNEY

Parental Pressure • Rising childcare costs during the pandemic have sent parents scrambling, too often right out of the workforce. Some companies are beginning to respond.

Reimagining employee and customer experience • QUALTRICS IS HELPING ORGANIZATIONS LISTEN MORE EFFECTIVELY TO DRIVE GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION

Seeing and Believing • Manipulated images are rampant, and problematic. Adobe, the photoediting forebearer, has a solution.

TRUTH OR DARE • Three other efforts to authenticate images before they’re released into the wild

Young and Restless • The clothing-resale platform Depop has become both a style and social hub for Gen Z. CEO Maria Raga explains how.

FAST FASHION • Depop has become fertile ground for new style trends. We’ve rounded up some of the platform’s top search terms.

The power of play as a teaching tool • CATERPILLAR’S LIFE-SIZE HOT WHEELS RACE TRACK SHOWCASES THE VALUE OF STEM EDUCATION AND THE LATEST IN CAT MACHINE INNOVATION

First Class • A toiletry bag and accessories to help you travel in style

Soundtrack for Traveling • Bheki Dube, founder and CEO, Curiocity Africa

My Daily Media Diet • Pilar Guzman, cofounder, The Swell

Making life better for jobseekers • THE WORLD’S LEADING JOB SITE AIMS TO RESHAPE THE HIRING PROCESS. AGAIN.

my operating system. • STEPHANIE LINNARTZ PRESIDENT, MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL

LINNARTZ’S BEST TRAVEL DESTINATIONS

Disability is the missing piece in the DEI Puzzle • DISABILITY:IN IS HELPING COMPANIES HIRE MORE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WHILE EXPANDING THE GLOBAL CONVERSATION AROUND DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION

What I’m Reading • Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft

When 55,000 people find one common voice • AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY, PERSISTENCE AND INNOVATION LEAD TO BRANDING SUCCESS

AMAZON UNPACKED A–Z • It doesn’t matter that Jeff Bezos has stepped down: No industry is safe from the company’s relentless ambition. A complete guide to Amazon’s staggeringly large and ever-mutating domain, most of which you can’t even see.

Masters of Scale • How Chinese sellers came to dominate Amazon’s marketplace

THE NEW MILITARY-SILICON VALLEY COMPLEX • AMID RISING TENSIONS WITH CHINA, A CADRE OF DEFENSE INSIDERS AND TECH PLAYERS WANT TO REMAKE THE PENTAGON IN SILICON VALLEY’S IMAGE.

IMPACT • This past year has been a tempestuous one for business. It’s also an opportunity.

BRANDS THAT MATTER • OUR INAUGURAL LIST OF...