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Roland Busch has a lot competing for his attention.As CEO of Siemens, Busch leads more than 300,000 employees. He gets about 200 emails a day, spends his afternoons in back-to-back meetings, and travels so frequently that he estimates he flies roughly the distance to the moon and back each year.Busch told Business Insider in his recent Power Hours interview that his background in theoretical physics has influenced his approach to the complexity of his job. He tries to strip problems down to what matters and eliminate unnecessary work wherever he can.That philosophy shows up throughout his daily routine, which strongly resonated with…

Amazon is turning to third-party sellers to expand one of its fastest shipping options — and asking them to pay up for it.The e-commerce giant is asking some sellers who use Fulfillment by Amazon, or FBA, to submit bids to make their products eligible for “sub-Same Day” delivery, according to an email sent to sellers earlier this month.Sub-Same Day deliveries arrive as soon as two hours after customers place an order and are available in 2,300 metro areas, according to Amazon. Items sold through sub-Same Day delivery “have experienced 12% higher sales on average” than those delivered through regular FBA…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Andres Fernandez, founder and CEO of MintlyCollects, which specializes in selling Pokémon cards on the live selling platform, Whatnot. The company’s two Whatnot accounts have around 500k followers altogether. The essay has been edited for length and clarity.I was born and raised in Miami, and I’ve always been an out-of-the-box kid.When I signed up for college, I didn’t really know what I wanted to do. I was going to college because my mom was making me go, and I was studying business, which I find to be cliché.After just one semester,…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Teagan Trapp, 24, a Canadian based in Kelowna, British Columbia, who buys and sells real estate in the US through his company Blue Peak Ventures. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan, all my life up until a year ago when I moved to Kelowna, British Columbia, in September 2025.I grew up thinking I was going to go to university and get a job working for the government with a good pension and paychecks.For three years, I worked as an HVAC and refrigeration mechanic…

Did you wake up this morning to a slight chill in the air? Perhaps you spotted a lone leaf falling from a tree and received your first targeted Halloween ad on Instagram?And so, you headed to your local Starbucks and discovered that, yes, it’s time: The fall drinks are back.The international chain, which released its fall lineup on August 25, announced a staggering 14 new and returning drinks for the season, including pumpkin, pecan, and banana-bread flavors, plus a new take on chai that it’s calling “Chaider.”So, I tried all of them.Fall is a big time for Starbucks. Last year,…

Joe Flannery didn’t have the luxury of a honeymoon period at Good Good. His new job as president started just as the YouTube group plunged into controversy.Good Good, one of YouTube’s biggest golf channels at 2.3 million subscribers, has seen mounting fallout from an ad with Callaway that was criticized as promoting violence against women. Callaway cut ties with Good Good on Thursday.Flannery’s hire, the result of an extensive search, was touted in an announcement viewed by Business Insider and dated August 21— the same day the ill-fated ad went out.In his new role, Flannery oversees “all major functions of the…

I never thought I’d live with my mom again.But in 2024 — as my husband and I struggled to find a house in Connecticut that we could afford, and my mom was looking for a way out of Florida — I had an idea: What if the three of us combined our incomes and bought a house together?Two years later, my husband, our baby, my mom, and I all live under one roof in a 3,000-square-foot house near Danbury, about 60 miles from New York City, where my husband commutes to work. Connecticut is my husband’s home state, and after…

Investors were glued to their TVs on Friday as Federal Reserve boss Kevin Warsh stepped up to the podium at the annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. The hotly anticipated remarks held a few key takeaways for investors. For one, Warsh reiterated what many already knew, which is that the era of forward guidance from the central bank is largely over. In stark contrast to his predecessor Jerome Powell, Warsh wants a “quieter” Fed. He also laid out his governing principles for deciding monetary policy, with more emphasis on on real-time data and trends, rather than monthly data points like the…

The Trump administration is once again trying to limit eligibility for a major student-loan forgiveness program.On Thursday, the Department of Education appealed a June ruling that blocked its plan to narrow the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program from taking effect.PSLF forgives student debt for government and nonprofit workers after 10 years of qualifying payments. The department planned to implement a rule on July 1 that would have excluded employers from the program that did not align with the administration’s definition of “public service,” including those that provide gender affirming care, support illegal immigration, or advance terrorism.According to the rule, the…

Vivian Tu spent her first years out of college on a trading desk. While working at JP Morgan, she noticed something about the wealthy people she worked around: they didn’t dress like it.”Nobody really had that fancy of stuff,” Tu, who got our attention as our “Rich BFF” thanks to her sound money advice, told Business Insider. “Once you kind of have the one watch, the guys wore the same watch every single day.””It is kind of counterintuitive to what you see online,” she said, “where like, you always need to be photographed in a new outfit, or you always…