For the 2021 edition, Insider has introduced several new sectors after more than a year of global social and economic disruption, including sustainability and diversity, equity and inclusion.
Meet some of the transformers changing these industries below.
In 2013, @TopeAwotona cashed in his 401(k) and sought to solve, once and for all, the problem of clunky email chains as the scheduling norm. Meet @Calendly.
@SlackHQ CEO @stewart has had an exciting year. In July, Salesforce’s $27.7 billion acquisition of his wildly popular workplace-chat app finally closed, putting Butterfield in a key position at the cloud-software giant.
Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman helped turn messenger RNA, the genetic material central to the vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, from an unproven concept into use in life-saving medicines.
Today, wacky C-suite titles are all the rage. Chief amazement officers, chief heart officers, and chief empathy officers are popping up across companies. businessinsider.com/companies-inve…
Your company might operate more compassionately because it hired a chief heart officer, but at the end of the day it's still a business, and that person can still fire you, Limsky writes. businessinsider.com/companies-inve…
Remote work sparked a surge in whistleblower complaints. There's more free time, less risk, and more support to call out wrongdoing when you work from home.
@BrittaLokting explains why so many remote workers are deciding to squeal on their companies. ⬇️
In 2017, Simon Edelman blew the whistle on his former employer, the US Department of Energy, as he leaked photographs to the news site @inthesetimesmag of a meeting between the Energy Secretary Rick Perry and the CEO of one of the largest coal companies.
Data from the Yellowstone Wolf Project hints that it's just the side effect of a protozoan inhabiting our brains in a failed attempt to make more protozoa, Adam Rogers (@jetjocko) writes. ⬇️ businessinsider.com/parasite-cat-f…
Curious about what motivates a wolf to leave its pack, Kira Cassidy, a field biologist with the Yellowstone Wolf Project, and her team hypothesized that a parasitic infection was egging them along. Specifically, a microorganism called Toxoplasma gondii. businessinsider.com/parasite-cat-f…
Toxo, as it's colloquially known, reproduces in cat species but leaps to other hosts like rats, hyena, people, and wolves. Once it takes up residence in a new animal, it’s linked to weird behavior — much of it spurred by an elevated appetite for risk. businessinsider.com/parasite-cat-f…