A hot course at Harvard Business School promises to teach future leaders an elusive skill— managing happiness . One of the toughest parts is just getting a spot in the class. As business schools train the corporate chieftains of tomorrow, skills like emotional awareness and improving well-being are taking their places alongside deal making and financial modeling. Courses on happiness, relationships and balance are among the most in-demand courses at top M.B.A. programs. Their popularity reflects...
Feb 15, 2022•47 sec•Ep. 181
A hot course at Harvard Business School promises to teach future leaders an elusive skill— managing happiness . One of the toughest parts is just getting a spot in the class. As business schools train the corporate chieftains of tomorrow, skills like emotional awareness and improving well-being are taking their places alongside deal making and financial modeling. Courses on happiness, relationships and balance are among the most in-demand courses at top M.B.A. programs. Their popularity reflects...
Feb 15, 2022•6 min•Ep. 182
For some couples, the solution for too much pandemic togetherness is saying good night on Valentine’s Day in a bigger bed where they don’t need to touch. After nearly two years of working from home and sharing close quarters with spouses, kids and pets, people are tossing out their full- and queen-size beds in favor of more spacious kings. Robert Pagano and his girlfriend, Tracy Jones, weighed the pros and cons of switching to a king from a queen last year. The couple, who live in Las Vegas, had...
Feb 14, 2022•1 min•Ep. 183
For some couples, the solution for too much pandemic togetherness is saying good night on Valentine’s Day in a bigger bed where they don’t need to touch. After nearly two years of working from home and sharing close quarters with spouses, kids and pets, people are tossing out their full- and queen-size beds in favor of more spacious kings. Robert Pagano and his girlfriend, Tracy Jones, weighed the pros and cons of switching to a king from a queen last year. The couple, who live in Las Vegas, had...
Feb 14, 2022•5 min•Ep. 184
Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, is making a $200 million strategic investment in Forbes, the 104-year old magazine and digital publisher, CNBC has learned. The funds will help Forbes execute on its plan to merge with a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, in the first quarter, according to people with knowledge of the deal. Binance will replace half of the $400 million in commitments from institutional investors announced earlier, making it one of t...
Feb 11, 2022•42 sec•Ep. 185
Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, is making a $200 million strategic investment in Forbes, the 104-year old magazine and digital publisher, CNBC has learned. The funds will help Forbes execute on its plan to merge with a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, in the first quarter, according to people with knowledge of the deal. Binance will replace half of the $400 million in commitments from institutional investors announced earlier, making it one of t...
Feb 11, 2022•5 min•Ep. 186
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department said Tuesday it seized over $3.6 billion worth of digital currency stolen during a hack of a cryptocurrency exchange and arrested two suspects for allegedly trying to launder the proceeds. The value of the cryptocurrency at the time it was seized last week marks the largest financial seizure ever by the Justice Department, officials said. Ilya Lichtenstein, 34 years old, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31, were both arrested without incident Tuesday morning in Man...
Feb 10, 2022•48 sec•Ep. 187
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department said Tuesday it seized over $3.6 billion worth of digital currency stolen during a hack of a cryptocurrency exchange and arrested two suspects for allegedly trying to launder the proceeds. The value of the cryptocurrency at the time it was seized last week marks the largest financial seizure ever by the Justice Department, officials said. Ilya Lichtenstein, 34 years old, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31, were both arrested without incident Tuesday morning in Man...
Feb 10, 2022•6 min•Ep. 188
Ronen Segev is out to clear the goldfish’s bad reputation. “Many times people come to me and ask me, ‘We thought that [a] goldfish has a three-second memory span.’ This is incorrect. It’s very important to make this point,” he said. “Fish are smart, even goldfish.” His case rests on a viral video he tweeted last month of a goldfish driving a water-tank-equipped robotic vehicle down the side of a street and inside his lab at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. The roboride was part of a...
Feb 09, 2022•52 sec•Ep. 189
Ronen Segev is out to clear the goldfish’s bad reputation. “Many times people come to me and ask me, ‘We thought that [a] goldfish has a three-second memory span.’ This is incorrect. It’s very important to make this point,” he said. “Fish are smart, even goldfish.” His case rests on a viral video he tweeted last month of a goldfish driving a water-tank-equipped robotic vehicle down the side of a street and inside his lab at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. The roboride was part of a...
Feb 09, 2022•7 min•Ep. 190
The Covid-19 pandemic sparked a surge of Americans moving to new regions, sometimes sight unseen, lured by lower costs or the ability to work remotely. But house hunters or those who uproot can be surprised by what they find, from pea-soup fog on coasts to relentless snowstorms in the mountains. In response, a new genre of videos is populating YouTube, in which real-estate agents get brutally upfront about the potential downsides of moving to their area. They say the blunt talk helps them stand ...
Feb 08, 2022•52 sec•Ep. 191
The Covid-19 pandemic sparked a surge of Americans moving to new regions, sometimes sight unseen, lured by lower costs or the ability to work remotely. But house hunters or those who uproot can be surprised by what they find, from pea-soup fog on coasts to relentless snowstorms in the mountains. In response, a new genre of videos is populating YouTube, in which real-estate agents get brutally upfront about the potential downsides of moving to their area. They say the blunt talk helps them stand ...
Feb 08, 2022•6 min•Ep. 192
For Tina Garrity, the decision to relocate from Chicago to Paradise Valley, Ariz., in the early months of the pandemic was an easy one. Ms. Garrity, 57, who has a management consulting business, has been visiting the Phoenix area for decades to see family. In March 2019, she bought a roughly 6,400-square-foot home for $1.85 million in Paradise Valley to stay in a few times a year. But when the pandemic hit, she began working remotely and decided to make it her primary residence. In contrast to h...
Feb 07, 2022•52 sec•Ep. 193
For Tina Garrity, the decision to relocate from Chicago to Paradise Valley, Ariz., in the early months of the pandemic was an easy one. Ms. Garrity, 57, who has a management consulting business, has been visiting the Phoenix area for decades to see family. In March 2019, she bought a roughly 6,400-square-foot home for $1.85 million in Paradise Valley to stay in a few times a year. But when the pandemic hit, she began working remotely and decided to make it her primary residence. In contrast to h...
Feb 07, 2022•6 min•Ep. 194
Facebook parent Meta lost more than $237 billion in value Thursday. That’s the biggest one-day drop in value in the history of the U.S. stock market. Meta’s plunge, based on a weaker-than-expected revenue forecast , topped the prior record set by Apple , when it lost $182 billion in market value in September 2020. The seven biggest drops in stock market history have all occurred in the last two years, as Apple , Microsoft , Tesla and Amazon have ballooned in valuation. Prior to 2020, the largest...
Feb 04, 2022•54 sec•Ep. 195
Facebook parent Meta lost more than $237 billion in value Thursday. That’s the biggest one-day drop in value in the history of the U.S. stock market. Meta’s plunge, based on a weaker-than-expected revenue forecast , topped the prior record set by Apple , when it lost $182 billion in market value in September 2020. The seven biggest drops in stock market history have all occurred in the last two years, as Apple , Microsoft , Tesla and Amazon have ballooned in valuation. Prior to 2020, the largest...
Feb 04, 2022•7 min•Ep. 196
Art collectors and cryptocurrency investors went wild last year buying art that exists only in the digital world. Now, Desiree Casoni, a collector in Key Biscayne, Fla., is trying to figure out how to hang all her new purchases on the wall. Ms. Casoni owns more than 500 digital artworks with her investor husband, Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile. Bored of swiping through their collection on a cellphone or laptop, the couple initially retooled a few television sets throughout their home, but that meant dow...
Feb 03, 2022•1 min•Ep. 197
Art collectors and cryptocurrency investors went wild last year buying art that exists only in the digital world. Now, Desiree Casoni, a collector in Key Biscayne, Fla., is trying to figure out how to hang all her new purchases on the wall. Ms. Casoni owns more than 500 digital artworks with her investor husband, Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile. Bored of swiping through their collection on a cellphone or laptop, the couple initially retooled a few television sets throughout their home, but that meant dow...
Feb 03, 2022•5 min•Ep. 198
A few hours after Toby Robicelli first strapped on the $300 virtual-reality headset he got for Christmas, the Baltimore teenager, who was playing a shooter game called “Superhot VR,” lost his balance and fractured his kneecap. “We set it up around 2:00,” said Toby’s mother, Allison Robicelli, of the tech gadget, “and by 8:00 we were on our way to the ER.” She fainted when she saw his leg, she said, and Toby, 14, is now using crutches. Sales of VR headsets rose more than 70% last year from 2020, ...
Feb 02, 2022•1 min•Ep. 199
A few hours after Toby Robicelli first strapped on the $300 virtual-reality headset he got for Christmas, the Baltimore teenager, who was playing a shooter game called “Superhot VR,” lost his balance and fractured his kneecap. “We set it up around 2:00,” said Toby’s mother, Allison Robicelli, of the tech gadget, “and by 8:00 we were on our way to the ER.” She fainted when she saw his leg, she said, and Toby, 14, is now using crutches. Sales of VR headsets rose more than 70% last year from 2020, ...
Feb 02, 2022•5 min•Ep. 200
Ms. Wood’s ETFs are at the center of the selloff that has pushed the S&P 500 down 7% and the Nasdaq Composite off 12% just four weeks into 2022. Worst hit have been the shares of technology and biotech firms that generate little to no profit, yet carry high valuations—the kind of companies Ms. Wood’s ARK favors. Some of the holdings of the ARK Innovation ETF are down more than 50% from their recent highs, including Spotify Technology SA, Block Inc., Zoom Video Communications Inc. and Roku In...
Feb 01, 2022•58 sec•Ep. 201
Ms. Wood’s ETFs are at the center of the selloff that has pushed the S&P 500 down 7% and the Nasdaq Composite off 12% just four weeks into 2022. Worst hit have been the shares of technology and biotech firms that generate little to no profit, yet carry high valuations—the kind of companies Ms. Wood’s ARK favors. Some of the holdings of the ARK Innovation ETF are down more than 50% from their recent highs, including Spotify Technology SA, Block Inc., Zoom Video Communications Inc. and Roku In...
Feb 01, 2022•4 min•Ep. 202
Cedar Ridge Distilling founder Jeff Quint is a former accountant and a blues fan from rural Swisher, Iowa, so he was initially dismissive when approached about teaming up with a metal band whose fans are known as “Maggots” and whose albums include “All Hope Is Gone.” “I don’t think we want to do this, right?” he wrote to a colleague about the proposed partnership with the band known as Slipknot, which Rolling Stone once named “the heaviest band on the planet.” Mr. Quint’s staff helped educate hi...
Jan 31, 2022•46 sec•Ep. 203
Cedar Ridge Distilling founder Jeff Quint is a former accountant and a blues fan from rural Swisher, Iowa, so he was initially dismissive when approached about teaming up with a metal band whose fans are known as “Maggots” and whose albums include “All Hope Is Gone.” “I don’t think we want to do this, right?” he wrote to a colleague about the proposed partnership with the band known as Slipknot, which Rolling Stone once named “the heaviest band on the planet.” Mr. Quint’s staff helped educate hi...
Jan 31, 2022•5 min•Ep. 204
Wall Street’s summer forecast calls for $100 oil. A barrel hasn’t cost that much since the summer of 2014, before OPEC launched a price war with U.S. shale producers and sent oil prices into a yearslong slump. Early in the pandemic, prices fell to uncharted depths . But the bust ended last year, when crude prices gained more than 50% and oil stocks led the broader market higher. The benchmark U.S. barrel has added another 16% to start this year, ending Wednesday at $87.35. Brent crude, a key pri...
Jan 28, 2022•1 min•Ep. 205
Wall Street’s summer forecast calls for $100 oil. A barrel hasn’t cost that much since the summer of 2014, before OPEC launched a price war with U.S. shale producers and sent oil prices into a yearslong slump. Early in the pandemic, prices fell to uncharted depths . But the bust ended last year, when crude prices gained more than 50% and oil stocks led the broader market higher. The benchmark U.S. barrel has added another 16% to start this year, ending Wednesday at $87.35. Brent crude, a key pri...
Jan 28, 2022•5 min•Ep. 206
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday provided the clearest hint yet that it could start raising interest rates as soon as March. “With inflation well above 2 percent and a strong labor market, the Committee expects it will soon be appropriate to raise the target range for the federal funds rate,” the central bank said in a statement that concluded its two-day meeting this week. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said asset purchases also are likely to halt in March, and the central bank released a paper out...
Jan 27, 2022•44 sec•Ep. 207
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday provided the clearest hint yet that it could start raising interest rates as soon as March. “With inflation well above 2 percent and a strong labor market, the Committee expects it will soon be appropriate to raise the target range for the federal funds rate,” the central bank said in a statement that concluded its two-day meeting this week. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said asset purchases also are likely to halt in March, and the central bank released a paper out...
Jan 27, 2022•4 min•Ep. 208
Lots of drivers cruise around with dogs, which often gleefully stick their snouts out the window. Now, many cat owners are attempting extended road trips with fluffy for the first time, given airline hassles, wariness about flying during a Covid-19 surge, needy quarantine kitties or the rise in relocations during the pandemic. Some adventurous felines have taken to traveling , but cats tend to lack the canine affinity for the open road. Cats scream, are generally skeptical about moving at unnatu...
Jan 26, 2022•48 sec•Ep. 209
Lots of drivers cruise around with dogs, which often gleefully stick their snouts out the window. Now, many cat owners are attempting extended road trips with fluffy for the first time, given airline hassles, wariness about flying during a Covid-19 surge, needy quarantine kitties or the rise in relocations during the pandemic. Some adventurous felines have taken to traveling , but cats tend to lack the canine affinity for the open road. Cats scream, are generally skeptical about moving at unnatu...
Jan 26, 2022•4 min•Ep. 210
