Save the Children suspends BCG partnership over Gaza work

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Save the Children has halted a decades-long partnership with BCG over its work on Gaza, after the consultancy helped develop a contentious aid scheme and modelled the costs of relocating Palestinians out of the strip. […]

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Employer benefits that can help workers with student loan debt

Student loan borrowers have been on a wild ride over the past few years.  The onetime dream of widespread debt forgiveness has been extinguished, and a five-year reprieve for people who had defaulted on student loans expired in May of this year. This summer, the Trump administration will garnish the wages, tax refunds, and federal […]

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Diaspora Co. raised capital only from angel investors

– Spice strategy. The best journalism often comes from topics that writers are personally passionate about—an obsession they have, or a question they can’t stop thinking about. That’s what happened for my colleague Jessica Mathews and her new Fortune story about Diaspora Co. The 8-year-old startup now pulling in “mid-millions” per year sells high-quality spices […]

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Iran’s supreme leader appears in public for first time since Israeli attack

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has appeared in public for the first time since Israel unleashed strikes on Iran last month that triggered almost two weeks of war and killed dozens of top military […]

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Crayola’s CEO leaned in to automation when everyone else was offshoring and now he’s reaping the rewards

Two decades ago, the name of the game in U.S. manufacturing was offshoring. Just as China was entering the World Trade Organization and ramping up its capabilities, it seemed like every U.S. company from General Motors to Dell was racing to move its operations outside the country. The ethos was exemplified by General Electric CEO […]

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