The list of colleges most commonly attended by American leaders remains heavily tilted toward the Ivy League or similarly prestigious schools, underscoring what University of Arkansas associate professor Jonathan Wai calls “a huge education divide in this country.”

Mount Holyoke faculty are working together across disciplines to cultivate learning environments that emphasize inclusive academic excellence.

It may be the most important question facing businesses in the fraught age of climate crisis and stakeholder capitalism: Can a company do well while doing right by the environment? The answer is yes—but a widespread belief that there are major trade-offs persists among executives, says John Sterman, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

TIME100 Companies is more than an index of business success. It is an argument for what business influence looks like in 2024. At a time when leadership in other sectors is battered, surveys suggest that many look to corporate leaders first for direction. Whether it is José Andrés at World Central Kitchen, Cathy Engelbert at the WNBA, or Jensen Huang at Nvidia, each shows us how companies can provide new models and new inspiration for the future of humanity.

Claire Chang and Steve Buckley knew it wasn’t going to be easy. But the two retail workers-turned-union organizers had been heartened by progress made during the first year of contract negotiations with REI, the outdoor gear and apparel chain. ... ​“It seemed like we were building up a rhythm,” says Chang, who has worked at the REI store in SoHo for more than six years.

A century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, local residents are stepping up to ensure that new investments power their own prosperity and right historical wrongs.

The uniquely important roles that frontline
employees play in essential US industries, along
with the unique risks they face every day, came
to widespread attention early in the covid-19
pandemic.

Beneath an East Hampton beach a few miles from Long Island’s fabled Montauk Point, the future of U.S. wind energy is taking shape. From a barge parked about one-third of a mile offshore, workers late last year began drilling horizontally beneath the seabed to make room for a new power transmission cable that will connect on land to a power company substation. If all goes as planned, by next year it will carry power generated by the 12-turbine South Fork Wind farm 35 miles east of Montauk Point into Long Island’s power grid. It will be New York’s first offshore wind farm.