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He helped popularize “I Am a Man” as a demand for respect during the 1968 strike by Black sanitation workers in Memphis.

By Sam Roberts

She was a fiery lawyer from eastern Kentucky who charged coal companies with discrimination for their refusal to hire women. Her campaign was a success.

By Adam Nossiter

Wanda James is on a mission to empower entrepreneurs from communities harmed by racial disparities in marijuana arrests.

By Joshua Needelman

The contract will provide an average salary increase of 11 percent, similar to what other museum workers across the country have obtained during the industry’s multiyear union push.

By Zachary Small

During the pandemic, Joanna Patchett spent 18 harrowing months in the intensive care unit. She discovered that medicine isn’t just about science — it’s also about heart.

By Alix Strauss

A challenging time proved to be fertile ground for experimentation that continues to pay off.

By Amy Haimerl

Troubles at the restaurant chain Burgerim highlight concerns about whether franchisees need more protection in their contracts with franchisers.

By Michael Corkery

Precious Price ditched her profitable business of renting home stays to tourists to combat the mounting housing crisis.

By Martha C. White

The unemployment rate for Black New Yorkers rose to 12.2 percent in the first quarter of the year, while the white unemployment rate dropped to 1.3 percent, a new report says.

By Stefanos Chen

A business owner’s personal story can bolster trust in a brand, experts say. But what happens when they share hardships like homelessness, addiction or incarceration in company marketing?

By Nina Roberts

Hamissi Mamba, a refugee from Burundi, knew little of American culture when he arrived eight years ago and learned English watching the “Peppa Pig” cartoon. But he opened his dream restaurant, and the accolades have rolled in.

By Amy Haimerl

The first Black woman to serve as chief economist at the Labor Department advanced the idea that lifting up people on the margins helps everyone else, too.

By Lydia DePillis

Jessica Steinrock’s work on intimate scenes in film has come to prominence as the entertainment industry reels from the litany of sexual abuses brought to light by the #MeToo movement.

By Jennifer Harlan

Companies that ramped up hiring in areas like technology over the past few years are cutting back as customers slow their spending.

By Jordyn Holman

For a biologist in San Francisco, Dec. 25 will bring not presents and mistletoe, but beak trims and fish guts.

By Chris Colin

The job in the Scottish region of Tayside was eliminated after a groundswell of anger that a man would be overseeing, or ‘mansplaining,’ menstruation policy.

By Emma Bubola

Arvind Krishna is trying to stay in touch with the company’s roots as he confronts today’s challenges.

By David Gelles

Mary Gundel loved managing a store in Tampa, Fla. But when she detailed its challenges on social media, the company — and fellow employees — took notice.

By Michael Corkery

“What I ask myself all the time is, ‘What is a man?’” says Edoardo Beniamin, a trans man training to join his father’s profession as a gondolier.

By Guy Trebay and Clara Vannucci

Niren Chaudhary took over as C.E.O. just before the pandemic. He now has the company focused on climate change.

By David Gelles

Jim Weber, the chief executive of Brooks Running, was a devoted distance runner. Then came cancer.

By David Gelles

Tim Cadogan helps people raise money for disaster relief and other causes. Just don’t call it a substitute for the social safety net.

By David Gelles

A debate about John Muir and racism thrust Ramón Cruz into a new leadership role.

By David Gelles

Thrive Market has found success with a subscription model and eco-friendly, health-conscious brands. It’s a diet familiar to the C.E.O., Nick Green.

By David Gelles

A harsh portrait of pay inequality at the company, premiering at Sundance on Monday, was directed by the granddaughter of one of the founders.

By Brooks Barnes

Karen S. Lynch, who took over during the pandemic, is dealing with insurance, opioids, vaccines, politics and more.

By David Gelles

The Ethiopian entrepreneur Sara Menker founded Gro Intelligence, which uses artificial intelligence to forecast global agricultural trends and battle food insecurity.

By David Gelles

Shar Dubey runs some of the world’s most popular online dating sites. A restrictive new law prompted her to speak out.

By David Gelles

Shaun Eli Breidbart was a banker on Wall Street for 19 years but he gave up a lucrative career in favor of happiness.

By Pierre-Antoine Louis

Ryan Gellert is worried about the world his children will inherit and is trying to use business to combat climate change.

By David Gelles

Jake Wood was a Marine sniper in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now he works in the philanthropic sector and is “leading with love.”

By David Gelles

C.E.O.s are eager for employees to return — and afraid of alienating those who have grown accustomed to working from home.

By David Gelles

Signing bonuses, higher wages, even college tuition. Companies are using perks to entice new employees in an industry that has been battered by the pandemic.

By Sapna Maheshwari and Michael Corkery

Dambisa Moyo has the ear of top business leaders. But there are no simple answers to complex problems.

By David Gelles

As offices debate the merits and logistics of reopening, a parallel sphere of workers like Peter Naughton, a Walmart cashier, seem to inhabit another world. Often their jobs just got really hard.

By Chris Colin

Rich Lesser, who has run Boston Consulting Group for eight years, is stepping down at a moment of enormous change.

By David Gelles

A parallel universe of millions of employees did not have the luxury of thinking about returning to the office — they never left. Six workers share their experiences.

By Sydney Ember

Michelle Gass, the chief executive of Kohl’s, is striking deals with Amazon and Sephora in a bid to stay relevant.

By David Gelles

Ethan Brown, the founder and C.E.O. of Beyond Meat, on his moral and environmental priorities.

By David Gelles

As a self-described “working-class intellectual,” he declared that direct action was more potent than collective bargaining or conventional politics.

By Sam Roberts

“When you talk to workers, they don’t want to sign up for a 9-to-5 job,” said Hayden Brown, who runs Upwork, a site that matches freelancers with employers.

By David Gelles

“Companies that get down with me know how I get down.”

By David Gelles

A Moroccan immigrant’s goal was to make guests, including nine U.S. presidents, feel right at home amid the grandeur of a landmark Manhattan hotel.

By Sam Roberts

You know you have a good job when it lets you try a jetpack. But after 21 years of thrills at The Times, it’s time for my next adventure: the classroom.

By John Schwartz

“The more taxes I pay, the happier I am,” says Mr. Joly, who is waging a campaign to get big business to be more socially responsible.

By David Gelles

A recent Times project that examined how the tech giant manages its workers took months of reporting and hundreds of interviews.

By Maria Cramer

Chris Kempczinski faces pressure to raise wages, offer healthier choices and make McDonald’s more vocal politically. Meanwhile, business is booming.

By David Gelles

Pay scales vary by function and by union agreements, but the raise will boost wages by an average of $1.30 per hour. For some workers at the lower end of their pay scales, that could equate to a boost of 3 to 10 percent, the airline said.

By Niraj Chokshi

After a long career at Home Depot, Carol Tomé thought she was done with office life. Then a company she knew well needed a new leader.

By David Gelles

Beth Ford has spent much of her career working on supply chain issues, which has served her well as the leader of Land O’ Lakes.

By David Gelles

For a business article on the price that working moms paid, a photographer couldn’t take portraits in person. But shooting them remotely led to a different connection.

By Bethany Mollenkof

Lynn Forester de Rothschild, founder of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, believes change will come when hedge fund billionaires and Pope Francis work together.

By David Gelles

Many job seekers don’t know where to look after the year we’ve just had. If you count yourself among this crowd, here’s how to get back into the market, even if you’re feeling rusty.

By Charlotte Cowles

“There is a responsibility of corporations to ensure that we maintain a stable democracy,” Derrick Johnson said.

By David Gelles

Burned out and flush with savings, some workers are quitting stable jobs in search of postpandemic adventure.

By Kevin Roose

A company with Southern roots and global reach tries to find its voice on an issue that disproportionately affects Black voters.

By David Gelles

Kathryn McLay, an Australian who worked for years in finance, wants employees to know “how valued they are.”

By David Gelles

The pandemic shattered the city’s economy, affecting people’s homes, livelihoods and wallets. One photojournalist documented the hardships, as both a lament and a tribute.

By Ashley Gilbertson

Tim Ryan, a white man and the U.S. chairman and senior partner at PwC, has made equity and inclusion a focus of the firm.

By David Gelles

Rose Marcario was riding high at the outdoor apparel manufacturer. Her sudden departure was another abrupt turn for perhaps America’s most unconventional company.

By David Gelles

The C.E.O. who followed Jack Welch tried, and failed, to revive the company’s stock price. He’s owning up to some of his mistakes now — and assigning some blame.

By David Gelles

As head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., he embraced immigrants, women, minority groups and low-wage workers in an effort to reverse organized labor’s long decline.

By Robert D. McFadden

Workers at a warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., are to vote next month on whether to unionize, the largest and most viable effort of its kind involving the technology giant.

By Michael Corkery and Karen Weise

As the C.E.O. of Herman Miller, Andi Owen has had to navigate a polarized work force while thinking about the future of the offices her company makes furniture for.

By David Gelles

Big business broke with Republicans in the final days of the Trump administration. That doesn’t mean executives are fully ready to embrace President Biden.

By David Gelles

Raj Shah, the head of the Rockefeller Foundation, spent a career working on disaster response in the developing world. The coronavirus pandemic has put his focus on the U.S.

By David Gelles

The industry employs millions, and the upheaval it experienced played out in the lives of many Americans.

By Sapna Maheshwari and Michael Corkery

The chairman of Ford Motor and the great-grandson of Henry Ford is an elder statesman in an industry where C.E.O.s come and go.

By David Gelles

One of the richest women in the world devoted decades to preparing for a pandemic.

By David Gelles

The findings point to the potential of upward mobility for people without a college degree.

By Steve Lohr

Some of our favorite new colleagues are four-legged and furry.

By Danya Issawi

Erika James recently took over the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Already, she is enmeshed in debates about race, politics and the role of business in society.

By David Gelles

In 10 years running Mastercard, Ajay Banga has favored a forward-looking approach.

By David Gelles

“I really believe when we’re all set free from captivity, we are going to be so happy and kind to each other,” Gail McGovern says.

By David Gelles

John Mackey, who espouses a high-minded version of capitalism, sold his upscale grocery chain to Amazon.

By David Gelles

Michele Roberts grew up in the South Bronx and made her way to the pinnacle of the legal world before becoming the head of the players’ union.

By David Gelles

Mikaila Ulmer’s “Bee Fearless” is that rarest of book breeds: the middle grade memoir.

By Ron Lieber

Stephen Ross, a friend of President Trump, talks about politics, philanthropy and his pet peeve: wastefulness.

By David Gelles

Whether it’s covering issues about safety, schooling or burnout, the members of the Parenting desk are working during this “new reality” to support caregivers on all fronts.

By Emma Grillo

In a recent DealBook forum, Times journalists took stock of how much the country’s most powerful companies are backing up statements against systemic racism.

She was a charismatic and powerful public speaker who pushed for equal pay for equal work, better labor standards and overall empowerment for women.

By Susan Ware

Sarah Friar, a native of Northern Ireland, is chief executive of the social network Nextdoor, a sometimes unruly platform aimed at connection.

By David Gelles

Through articles, a book, a play and more, a Times special project commemorating the ratification of the 19th Amendment focuses on lesser-known women who were crucial to the fight.

By Sarah Bahr

As experts fear a nationwide eviction crisis, a Times business reporter discusses the industry’s long-term problems and a nightmare in the making.

The billionaire tech executive discusses capitalism, immigration, innovation and why 2020 has given us “a glimpse of the future.”

By David Gelles

Employment remains an elusive goal for many. A recent hiring strategy may win pats on the back, but advocates fear it may pigeonhole people with disabilities.

By Wendy Lu

She was the first woman hired to command the cockpit for a major American airline on scheduled flights and the first woman to achieve the airline rank of captain.

By Sam Roberts

So long to overhyped innovations. Hello to tech that embeds accessibility into everyday devices.

By David M. Perry

Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic, which runs the publishing platform WordPress.com, says working remotely is “good for the environment” and “good for the economy.”

By David Gelles

A machinist and Socialist from the Bronx, he pushed trade unions to be more democratic and to depose crooked labor leaders.

By Sam Roberts