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And then there were four. Loading audio narration… The first round of voting for our business-focused March Madness bracket is done. We’re on to the final four.Thanks to all those who participated, as we got more than 300 votes. Clearly, some of you had an issue with the selection committee — me — because the favorites got decimated.A quick recap, I identified and seeded eight of the top business trends this year. Each week, readers vote for the topics that matter most to them.Let’s get to the results: Every time Dan publishes a story, you’ll get an alert straight to…

A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent looks on passengers queue to go through security at New York’s LaGuardia airport on March 22, 2026. Charly Triballeau | Afp | Getty ImagesNEW YORK — Andrew Leonard showed up at John F. Kennedy International Airport at 4:45 a.m. on Monday for his 7 a.m. flight to Seattle. Nearly two hours later, he made it through security and to his gate just in time for boarding.”I fly out of this terminal all the time and this is insane,” said Leonard, a 34-year-old performing arts teacher in New York who was en route to Seattle…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Marina and Ricardo Larroudé, cofounders of Larroudé. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… My husband and I both had successful careers, me in fashion and Ricardo in finance. Yet living in New York with our two kids — who are now 12 and 16 — was incredibly expensive. We were never able to acquire wealth, and we didn’t own our home. So when we were both laid off in the early days of the pandemic, our financial security disappeared.At the time, it felt like there was…

As CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch some 20 years ago, Michael Jeffries helmed an international retail giant whose advertising was steeped in racy images of beachside adventure and shirtless young men.On Tuesday, Jeffries, 81, must appear in a Long Island courtroom for a sex trafficking case that alleges he used his power and wealth to abuse dozens of aspiring male models.Jeffries’ lawyers are set to argue during three days of hearings this week that their client, now 81, is mentally incompetent to be tried on those charges.The ex-CEO, who pleaded not guilty to the charges in 2024, has Alzheimer’s and…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Hady Kfoury, the founder and CEO of Naya, a Middle Eastern-inspired food chain. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I created Naya to share the authentic Middle Eastern flavors I grew up with, in a modern and fast-casual way. Today, we have 43 locations. We’re adding 12 more this year, and 25 next year. Our goal is to reach 200 locations by 2030. Business Insider’s Power Hours series gives readers an inside look at how powerful leaders in business structure their workday. See more stories from the series here,…

Despite its 240-year pedigree, BNY isn’t showing its age.Under CEO Robin Vince, who took the reins in 2022, the firm — founded by Alexander Hamilton — is aggressively embracing AI. Recently, it has begun entrusting some managers with oversight of a contingent of new workers who don’t even require a chair: the digital employee.”All digital employees report to a human manager,” Vince said in an interview with Business Insider this month in Palm Beach. These digital employees create a layered effect with the company’s agentic products, in which a single entity coordinates the activities of multiple individual agents. The digital workforce is…

Mark Cuban said AI agents will slash an hour of work from typical workdays. Loading audio narration… In an X post on Sunday, the billionaire investor wrote that “smart, bigger companies” will let their employees create and use AI agents to improve their productivity. But he said that more importantly, “they will reduce their work day by an hour to start.”He said that the employees will work one less hour per day while earning the same pay, adding that companies should “reward people doing the daily with more time.”AI agents work as virtual assistants that can complete tasks from start…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Liz Weselby, a 53-year-old communications executive based in Sydney. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I moved from the UK to Thailand in 2003 for work, and I would advise people not to take the same approach I did.I didn’t do any research and had no idea what work-appropriate attire was in Bangkok.Now, having led teams in five cities — London, Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sydney — I’ve learnt a couple of things about adapting a work wardrobe for a new city.Here are three tips, not…

Oil prices are expected to come under renewed pressure when markets reopen after the US and Iran traded threats over the weekend.The price of a barrel of oil has surged from about $70 to more than $100 since the US and Israel began bombing Iran on February 28.President Donald Trump on Saturday said the US would attack Iran’s power plants, starting with the “biggest one,” if it didn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.Iran responded on Sunday, threatening to strike infrastructure belonging to the US and Israel across the Middle East.”If Iran’s fuel and energy infrastructure is attacked…

I was absolutely thrilled when my oldest child got her first retail job. Within a few weeks of starting, she was sometimes working 20 or more hours a week, bringing home a solid paycheck at just 17. Loading audio narration… However, I quickly realized how little I’d taught her about money management. Judging by the number of Amazon packages arriving on our porch, addressed to my daughter, I knew we still have a lot of work to do, but I wanted to be careful in the way I guided her. We tried to talk about money earlyWhen our four kids…