Private equity giants like Blackstone and KKR are loading up on industry specialists to help squeeze out returns, and that's creating a new power dynamic inside the firms

Casey Sullivan | PE firms with huge cash piles have bid companies up. Now they're looking for people with hands-on industry experience to squeeze out more profit.

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There's no near-term fix to the affordable-housing crisis, one real estate exec says, but prefab buildings, coliving and zoning changes could help

Alex Nicoll | There isn't enough affordable housing, and developers won't add affordably-priced stock. One real estate exec explained what it could take to change that.

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We asked 4 VC investors what they look for in a fintech founder: they want someone who's 'gritty' and has 'transgressive' ideas, but can also take advice

Shannen Balogh | Investors at Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, Citi Ventures, and Insight Partners told us what it takes to stand out in the red-hot fintech space.

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Here's what financial advisers say is the most overhyped wealth tech, and which tools they think will actually help them in the next 5 years

Rebecca Ungarino | Advisers think customer-relationship software, video-conferencing and self-service portals are the most useful tech, a survey found.

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Here's what it takes to get accepted into Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, according to 3 MBA grads, an admissions dean, and 2 former Fuqua staffers

Sarah Lindenfeld Hall | Among those who applied for the class of 2021, Fuqua reports that 22% were admitted. Here's how to get into the No. 11 business school in the world.

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An internal doc reveals Amazon is ditching the trucking industry's most common pay practice — and it's a brilliant maneuver that could give the e-commerce giant a massive advantage

Rachel Premack | Some truck drivers like the change at Amazon — while others say it could be a "sneaky" way to get low-cost labor.

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Michael Bloomberg built a $54 billion company. For 2 decades, women who worked there have called it a toxic, sexually charged nightmare.

Becky Peterson,Nicole Einbinder,J.K. Trotter | In court filings, former Bloomberg employees say the billion-dollar company failed to protect them from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

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This is the exact formula you should use to figure out how to get to the airport on time

Andy Kiersz | Here's how to figure out when you should arrive at the airport using the concept of expected utility.

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A 20-year-old YouTube creator explains how she earned $23,000 in ad revenue from a single video

Amanda Perelli | Alyssa Kulani lives in Canada and is a full-time YouTube influencer. She posts weekly videos to her channel with 676,000 subscribers.

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