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2026-03-02T15:23:47.985Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. I’m an interior designer, and there are some things I’d buy and a few items I’d skip at Ikea. I like Ikea’s aesthetically pleasing photo frames, simple dressers, and outdoor decking. The store’s selection of outdoor paper lanterns, bedding, and mirrors doesn’t impress me much. As an interior designer,…

Versant signage on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on July 21, 2025.Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesVersant Media Group will release its first earnings report as a public company on Tuesday, giving Wall Street its first glimpse inside a company made up primarily of pay-TV networks. The Comcast spinoff — comprised of CNBC, MS Now, USA Network, Golf Channel, Syfy, E! and Oxygen, as well as digital properties including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and Sports Engine — debuted on the Nasdaq in January after one of the media industry’s most significant transactions in recent years. The…

Paramount+ and HBO Max signage.Reuters | Getty ImagesParamount+ and HBO Max will be combined into one streaming service if regulators approve Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount CEO David Ellison said on a conference call Monday.A combined service would have about 200 million subscribers given existing totals, Ellison said during his company’s investor call about the WBD transaction. Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery said last week they had struck an agreement to sell WBD for $31 per share after Netflix backed out of the prolonged bidding war. Paramount executives didn’t offer any details Monday on how the company…

A display board shows canceled flights to Dubai and Doha amid regional airspace closures at Noi Bai International Airport, amid the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran, in Hanoi, Vietnam, March 2, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone. Thinh Nguyen | ReutersAirline and travel stocks fell Monday after airspace closures throughout the Middle East forced carriers to cancel thousands of flights, disrupting trips as far as Brazil and the Philippines. Oil prices also spiked, driving up airlines’ biggest cost after labor.United Airlines, which has the most international exposure of the U.S. carriers, was down 6% in premarket trading. Service to Tel…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Robert Pasin, CEO of Radio Flyer It has been edited for length and clarity.My family business, Radio Flyer, is in its 109th year of operation, and it has only had three CEOs: my grandfather, my dad, and me.My grandfather was a charismatic, energetic guy. He immigrated from Italy and founded Radio Flyer in a one-room workshop on Chicago’s West Side. My dad was his only son and took over the company out of a sense of obligation.My dad would have been in leadership if it weren’t for the family business. He…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jaclyn Rothenberg, senior vice president for reputation management at Avoq, a communications and lobbying firm. From July 2021 to late 2024, she was a spokesperson and director of public affairs at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.It was the fall of 2024. I was the director of public affairs at FEMA during Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which was a huge moment in the world of misinformation because there was so much of it, so fast. And it was in the middle of the…

A few weeks ago, I, someone who generally abstains from beef but is committed to understanding the modern power lunch, spent about six hours surrounded by hundreds of pounds of raw steak.I arrived at Delmonico’s, a storied Wall Street steakhouse, at 7:10 am on a recent Wednesday, late by the restaurant’s standards. The first employees had already been there for 10 minutes, vacuuming the many dining rooms and unboxing lettuce in the downstairs prep kitchen. In spending the day at the nearly 200-year-old restaurant, which is now part business lunch spot, part tourist attraction, I saw how the latest push…

Few promotions in corporate America are as competitive as making partner at McKinsey & Company.Last November, the global consulting firm announced one of its smallest partner classes in recent years: 224 new partners — well below 2022, when 400 consultants made partner during the pandemic-era consulting boom.The newest class of partners comes from more than 65 cities across 45 countries, stretching from Chile to Japan. Collectively, they speak more than 40 languages and bring expertise across nearly 20 sectors and business functions, a representative for the firm told Business Insider.Four partners from the firm’s latest class shared their best advice…

The U.S. Supreme Court Heather Diehl/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Heather Diehl/Getty Images The Supreme Court hears arguments Monday in an important gun case that has united an array of strange bedfellows, from conservative gun rights groups to liberal civil liberties groups. At issue is a federal law making it a crime for drug users to possess a firearm. It’s the same law that was used to prosecute then-President Joe Biden’s son for illegal gun possession — only this case involves marijuana use and gun ownership. The briefs in the case present diametrically different versions of the facts. On one side, the…

Did Netflix walk away from Warner Bros. Discovery because of money? Or because of politics?Money, says Netflix boss Ted Sarandos. Just money.Sarandos, the streamer’s co-CEO, says Netflix pulled out of the WBD bidding war — ultimately won by Larry and David Ellison’s Paramount — because Netflix didn’t want to raise the price it would pay for WBD’s studio and HBO business.The fact that the proposed Netflix/WBD deal was getting pushback from Republicans in Washington — and other regulators in the US and around the world — was not an issue, Sarandos said in an interview this weekend.”I still believe in…