Business Innovation

As an economics undergraduate at Duke University in the 1990s, Amy Hood had no master plan that would one day land her the top finance job at one of the world’s biggest tech companies. In fact, now Microsoft’s chief financial...

The numbers coming out of Wall Street’s most influential research shop tell a story that Silicon Valley would rather not hear.In two separate reports published in April, Goldman Sachs analysts examined the great AI infrastructure build-out from opposite ends...

The big bet on AI—the near-trillion dollars that hyperscalers are spending to build out the technology’s infrastructure—is predicated on the belief that productivity will skyrocket.If that bet pays off, a new report from policy research center Yale Budget Lab...

The defining story in technology this century is how software has transformed the way we work. We now communicate, share information, and manage companies completely differently from our predecessors in 2000.But one of the world’s biggest industries has largely bypassed...

The doomsday crowd may want to check its history books.As fears of an AI-driven jobs apocalypse intensify across boardrooms, union halls, and college campuses, Bank of America’s global research team is urging a reality check. In a report published April...

What happens when a generation is raised on economic promises that never materialize? Gen Z may want to ask their older siblings, the millennials, how that turned out, as the Great Recession of 2008—and the ensuing “jobless recovery”—left millions...

Since America’s founding, legal immigration has been debated, enforced, contested, and redefined. It runs through our national story and will continue to do so as we pursue our nation’s second 250 years. As we consider today’s immigration policies, it...

There may be no single person more integral to shaping the future of work than Jensen Huang.As cofounder and CEO of Nvidia, Huang has transformed a company once focused on computer gaming graphics into a chipmaking powerhouse at the...

The phrase “touch grass” has become the internet’s way of telling someone to log off and rejoin the real world. Erik Torenberg, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, thinks the phrase has it exactly backward—and that getting the philosophy...

Tech leaders are split on how AI will shake up the world of work. While some CEOs are staunch believers that a white-collar jobs Armageddon is imminent, others say it it will supercharge humans in their professional lives. Jensen...