ALISON BEARD: Welcome to HBR On Leadership, case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts—hand-selected to help you unlock the best in those around you. I’m HBR executive editor Alison Beard filling in for Hannah Bates. This month, we’re highlighting some of the best conversations from the 2025 HBR Leadership Summit held […]

Boeing has sent a plane to China for the first time since tariff tensions boiled over, ahead of further trade talks between the US and China. The 737 Max touched down in Zhoushan around noon local time on Monday, according to data from FlightAware. It concluded a lengthy transpacific journey that began on Friday, when […]

HANNAH BATES: Welcome to HBR On Strategy—case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, hand-selected to help you unlock new ways of doing business. If you really want to compete in your industry, you have to think like your rivals. How might they respond to your next move? What happens if they […]

When I arrived early on a Friday morning, the world’s men and women of war were already collecting their keycards. For 22 years, the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore has hosted what’s become Asia’s biggest defense summit, which ran this year from May 30 to June 1. The Shangri-La Dialogue is an annual mass gathering of […]

I’m a mom of four kids, and I’m in my mid-forties. My age becomes glaringly apparent when I’m among other parents who are assisting my youngest child’s class: a group of nearly twenty-five second graders with younger parents who appear to be in their late twenties. Aging is a beautiful thing, they say. Who are […]

Russia’s drone attacks are becoming increasingly complex, with enemy threats becoming harder to kill, the team leader for a Ukrainian mobile air defense unit told Business Insider. He said higher-reaching weapons are needed to beat them. Oleksiy, the deputy commander of an air defense unit with Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, said Russia’s drone tactics have […]

A senator is demanding answers from Spotify about its handling of fake podcasts that promoted opioids and other prescription drugs. In the wake of a Business Insider investigation that found 200 phony podcasts on Spotify advertising the sale of pills, often without a prescription, Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire urged the digital music and […]

Elon Musk had been the face of President Donald Trump‘s efforts to reduce the size of government. More recently, however, the billionaire has said he intends to return his focus to the companies that helped make him the world’s richest man. “Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms,” Musk said in […]

Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun now has a $100,000 Trump-branded watch on his arm, but he’s no stranger to the high life. The billionaire was one of 220 top backers of President Donald Trump’s meme coin, $TRUMP, who were invited to a special dinner with the president on May 22. At the event, Sun said he […]

McDonald’s announced on Friday that it is closing its CosMc’s spin-off line of Starbucks-style drink shops. McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski said in the company’s last earnings call that drinks from CosMc’s would be introduced to “hundreds of McDonald’s restaurants” in the future. “In connection with this next phase of testing, we will begin closing all […]