Millennials Millennial Workers Are Thriving in Age-Old WorkplacesFortune - Lydia Belanger Projected to outnumber baby boomers this year, millennials, now ages 21 to 38, are already the largest demographic in the U.S. workforce. Some of …
AbbVie Protect at All Costs: How the Maker of the World’s Bestselling Drug Keeps Prices Sky-HighFortune Humira has turned AbbVie into a global pharma giant—and the company has aggressively blocked competition to protect its sales. How a blockbuster …
Entertainment Industry Horror Flicks Are Having a Moment, But Here’s When Other Movie Genres PeakedFortune As much as many of us love to bash Hollywood, moviemakers do tell us something about our collective psyche—if not with their specific films, then …
Tech Industry Can Sweetgreen’s Salad Evangelists Get America to Finally Eat Its Vegetables?Fortune At Ward’s Berry Farm, 30 miles south of Boston, the first day of May dawns cloudy and cold, with a spitting drizzle that renders an umbrella more …
Automation How Automation Is Cutting Into Workers’ Share of Economic OutputFortune - Geoff Colvin Here’s a mystery: Why is workers’ share of total economic output declining? If you think that’s been happening forever or that the answer is obvious, …
Entertainment Industry The Summer of ’69, by the NumbersFortune - Daniel Bentley The preferred instrument of Jimi Hendrix would have set you back the equivalent of $2,200 in 2019 dollars but would be worth upwards of $9,000 …
Seychelles ‘Blue Bonds’: Selling Seychelles for the SeashoreFortune - Erika Fry Can we financially engineer our way out of climate change and polluted oceans? Maybe not, but financial innovation is emerging as a popular tool to …
Larry Nassar ‘How Much Is a Little Girl Worth?’: The Painful Financial Fallout of the Larry Nassar CaseFortune On Jan. 24, 2018, Rachael Denhollander walked into a Michigan courtroom to speak about the sexual abuse she suffered as a child from Larry Nassar. …
Social Media Companies Can TikTok Turn 950 Million Downloads Into a Booming Business?Fortune - Eamon Barrett During lunchtime at middle schools across the U.S., adolescents stare at 15- to 60-second clips of their friends lip-synching to Beyoncé on the …
Gig Economy How TaskRabbit Got Its Start and Helped Spawn the Gig EconomyFortune - Dinah Eng When I was 8, I asked my dad what was the highest role in a company, and he said, “It’s the CEO.” That’s when I decided what I wanted to be. I …
EBay Lessons From the VC Who’s Seen It All BeforeFortune Wearing a long-sleeve black shirt, blue shorts, a knee brace on his right leg (basketball injury), and a backpack filled with water bottles and an …
Barnes & Noble Why Barnes & Noble May Soon Look Like the Local Bookstores It Killed OffFortune - Phil Wahba The Barnes & Noble saga may yet have a happy ending. The retailer, still the largest U.S. bookstore chain despite years of shriveling sales, was …
Business Digital Health Companies Hit a New VC Funding Record in 2018Fortune - Sy Mukherjee The digital health funding fever is far from breaking. Venture funding for digital health firms around the world hit an all-time high of $14.6 …
Rolls-Royce The Rolls-Royce Cullinan Is a Diamond Designed for Rough TerrainFortune “It’s the first Rolls-Royce that looks better dirty,” says the brand’s CEO, Torsten Müller-Ötvös, as he overlooks a small fleet of the marque’s first …
Conundrum As More Products Are Made for Single People, a Waste Conundrum EmergesFortune - Lydia Belanger Living alone is increasingly common. In 2018, 28% of U.S. households were home to just one person, according to the Census Bureau. That’s more than …
Business Meet the A.I. Landlord That’s Building a Single-Family-Home EmpireFortune Erin Burrus has endured some misfortune in recent years: After a cancer diagnosis, she lost her home to foreclosure. Today she’s healthy again, and a …
UberEATS Tech’s 4 Biggest Cash Burners Have Torn Through $23.9 Billion CombinedFortune - Shawn Tully Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story published on May 20. “You’ve got to spend money to make money” is one of the most widely accepted …
Oculus VR The Fall and Rise of VR: The Struggle to Make Virtual Reality Get RealFortune Paul McCartney made his modest contribution to the future of virtual reality with a little help from a bike mechanic. The unlikely union of the …
Money Follow the Money for the Truth About Tech, From Valuations to VRFortune - Clifton Leaf At the end of May, when Uber filed its first earnings report as a public company, the ride-hailing titan revealed it had an impressive $3 billion in …
Fortune Magazine Masthead: June 1, 2019 (Vol. 179, No. 6)Fortune - Andrew Nusca SENIOR EDITORS AT LARGE Geoff Colvin, Nina Easton, Shawn Tully SENIOR EDITORS Daniel Bentley, Lee Clifford, Scott DeCarlo (lists), Verne Kopytoff, …
Warby Parker In Hindsight: How Warby Parker Got Its StartFortune - Dinah Eng Dave Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal are cofounders and co-CEOs of Warby Parker—the eyewear company that disrupted the industry by drastically lowering …
Censorship The Splinternet Is GrowingFortune - Jeff John Roberts “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it,” said Internet pioneer John Gilmore in a 1993 Time magazine article about a …
Artificial Intelligence Keep Your A.I. Buzzwords StraightFortune - Jonathan Vanian Artificial intelligence is having its moment. Business leaders can’t stop talking about it. New tech products invariably include it. And news …
This App Is All Up in My GrillFortune - Jeff John Roberts Americans’ love of grilling is strong as ever, crossing cultures and generations. But these days, a growing number of backyard barbecue chefs are …
5G Is Still in Its InfancyFortune - Aaron Pressman Huzzah! The wireless industry has finally delivered on years of promises and hype and is finally offering the first super-fast 5G networks. Sort …
How Your Privacy Will Be Protected in the 2020 CensusFortune - Robert Hackett Every ten years the U.S. Census Bureau conducts a nationwide survey that sets the terms for the country’s democracy. The questionnaire yields rich …
Batteries The Race Is on to Build a Better BatteryFortune At first glance, all seems serene on a spring morning at the research-and-development campus of SK Innovation, one of Korea’s biggest industrial …
United States These Stocks Are Born to RunFortune - Rey Mashayekhi In the week before the June issue of Fortune went to press, the Speaker of the House announced the U.S. was in the midst of a constitutional crisis; …
Dollar General Making Billions at the Dollar StoreFortune The boxy, brick-fronted shop in the town square of Scottsville, Ky. (population: 4,500), is one of the oldest stores in the Dollar General chain—and …
