View From The TopOur series of conversations with leaders.Marriott International CEO Says Business Won't Return To 2019 Levels For 3 YearsMarriott, which was hit hard by the pandemic when it first began, announced this week that the company will lay off 17% of its corporate staff in October.Play10:56Sep 10, 2020How San Francisco's Public Transit System Is Weathering The PandemicIn the San Francisco Bay Area, demand is down 80%. Play10:57Aug 28, 2020Advertisement Blue Apron CEO's Recipe For Continued Growth After The PandemicThe meal kit delivery service reported 10% growth in net income during the second quarter of this year compared to the same period last year. Play09:46Aug 26, 2020How Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Is Tracking The PandemicUSAFacts launched the "Coronavirus Impact and Recovery Hub" to track the nation's response to the pandemic.Play10:45Aug 18, 2020The Face Of America Is Changing. CEO Tristan Walker Says Brands Need To Respect And Respond To ThatTristan Walker, founder and CEO of the Black beauty and health line Walker & Company, talks about the barriers Black businesses face in this country.Play10:49Jul 16, 2020Climate Change, COVID-19 Pandemic Threaten Future Of Panama CanalRicaurte Vasquez, administrator of the Panama Canal, discusses how climate change is affecting the supply of freshwater the canal needs to operate.Play11:07Jun 22, 2020As Retails Stores Stay Shuttered, Quarantined Americans Turn TVs To QVC And HSNRetail sales have dropped significantly since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, but viewership has gone up for QVC and HSN.Play10:51May 26, 2020Senior Nutrition Programs Get $30M More In Funding Next Year. Meals On Wheels America CEO Says That's Still Not EnoughMeals on Wheels is serving 21 million fewer meals today than in 2005 because of relatively flat funding from Congress. Play07:57Dec 20, 2019Amtrak Could Turn A Profit In 2020 For The 1st Time EverAmtrak says it logged an operating revenue of $3.3 billion — a 3.6% increase over the last fiscal year.Play09:43Nov 15, 2019Fur Is Falling Out Of Fashion — Even For Queen Elizabeth II“The writing's on the wall for the end of fur,” says Kitty Block, Humane Society of the United States' CEO.Play09:34Nov 14, 2019Unilever, Maker Of Dove And Lipton, Pledges To Cut Non-Recycled Plastic Use In Half By 2025Unilever also pledges to collect and process more used plastic packaging than it sells over the next six years.Play10:54Oct 21, 2019Marriott CEO Says Cutting Out Single-Use Toiletries Will Save 500 Million Plastic Bottles Per YearMarriott International says it will eliminate small plastic bottles of shampoo, conditioner and bath gel from its hotel rooms by the end of 2020.Play10:54Sep 23, 2019How Allbirds Turned Wool Sneakers Into A Billion-Dollar BusinessThe company started with a Kickstarter in 2014. Five years later, Allbirds has reported it's worth $1.4 billion.Play11:05Sep 10, 2019Once An Industrial Hub, This Alabama City Is Attracting Tech Talent To The SouthShipt founder Bill Smith, a high school dropout who's become something of a hometown hero, says keeping the business local was his "key to success."Play09:37May 15, 2019Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Is On A Mission: Make Government Data More TransparentBallmer has founded an organization called USAFacts that provides one-stop shopping for federal, state and local government statistics. It's just released its annual report.Play10:57May 1, 2019Meet Florida's Only Democrat Elected To Statewide OfficeNikki Fried was elected commissioner of agriculture on a pro-marijuana platform, and is working with the Republican governor on a variety of environmental efforts.Play10:57Apr 4, 2019As Cities And Companies Ditch Plastic Straws, Demand For Paper RisesThe demand for paper straws has risen as cities and companies like Los Angeles and Starbucks have stopped using plastic straws. Play07:59Mar 14, 2019Shampoo And Ice Cream In A Metal Can? Meet 'Loop,' A New Way To Cut Down On Plastic WasteLoop, in partnership with large consumer brands, will offer reusable containers for some 300 household products.Play06:50Mar 5, 2019Companies That Sift Through False News Online Are Creating A New 'Trust Industry'A host of companies have emerged to combat misleading information online. Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks with the co-CEO of a company that rates news websites on credibility.Play09:37Feb 15, 2019About 1/4 Of U.S. Breweries Join Sierra Nevada's Camp Fire Fundraising EffortParadise, California, was devastated by the wildfire. Sierra Nevada Brewing Company is headquartered one city over, and is releasing a special beer — Resilience IPA — to raise money for...Play10:38Dec 17, 2018Next Page
Marriott International CEO Says Business Won't Return To 2019 Levels For 3 YearsMarriott, which was hit hard by the pandemic when it first began, announced this week that the company will lay off 17% of its corporate staff in October.Play10:56Sep 10, 2020
How San Francisco's Public Transit System Is Weathering The PandemicIn the San Francisco Bay Area, demand is down 80%. Play10:57Aug 28, 2020
Blue Apron CEO's Recipe For Continued Growth After The PandemicThe meal kit delivery service reported 10% growth in net income during the second quarter of this year compared to the same period last year. Play09:46Aug 26, 2020
How Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Is Tracking The PandemicUSAFacts launched the "Coronavirus Impact and Recovery Hub" to track the nation's response to the pandemic.Play10:45Aug 18, 2020
The Face Of America Is Changing. CEO Tristan Walker Says Brands Need To Respect And Respond To ThatTristan Walker, founder and CEO of the Black beauty and health line Walker & Company, talks about the barriers Black businesses face in this country.Play10:49Jul 16, 2020
Climate Change, COVID-19 Pandemic Threaten Future Of Panama CanalRicaurte Vasquez, administrator of the Panama Canal, discusses how climate change is affecting the supply of freshwater the canal needs to operate.Play11:07Jun 22, 2020
As Retails Stores Stay Shuttered, Quarantined Americans Turn TVs To QVC And HSNRetail sales have dropped significantly since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, but viewership has gone up for QVC and HSN.Play10:51May 26, 2020
Senior Nutrition Programs Get $30M More In Funding Next Year. Meals On Wheels America CEO Says That's Still Not EnoughMeals on Wheels is serving 21 million fewer meals today than in 2005 because of relatively flat funding from Congress. Play07:57Dec 20, 2019
Amtrak Could Turn A Profit In 2020 For The 1st Time EverAmtrak says it logged an operating revenue of $3.3 billion — a 3.6% increase over the last fiscal year.Play09:43Nov 15, 2019
Fur Is Falling Out Of Fashion — Even For Queen Elizabeth II“The writing's on the wall for the end of fur,” says Kitty Block, Humane Society of the United States' CEO.Play09:34Nov 14, 2019
Unilever, Maker Of Dove And Lipton, Pledges To Cut Non-Recycled Plastic Use In Half By 2025Unilever also pledges to collect and process more used plastic packaging than it sells over the next six years.Play10:54Oct 21, 2019
Marriott CEO Says Cutting Out Single-Use Toiletries Will Save 500 Million Plastic Bottles Per YearMarriott International says it will eliminate small plastic bottles of shampoo, conditioner and bath gel from its hotel rooms by the end of 2020.Play10:54Sep 23, 2019
How Allbirds Turned Wool Sneakers Into A Billion-Dollar BusinessThe company started with a Kickstarter in 2014. Five years later, Allbirds has reported it's worth $1.4 billion.Play11:05Sep 10, 2019
Once An Industrial Hub, This Alabama City Is Attracting Tech Talent To The SouthShipt founder Bill Smith, a high school dropout who's become something of a hometown hero, says keeping the business local was his "key to success."Play09:37May 15, 2019
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Is On A Mission: Make Government Data More TransparentBallmer has founded an organization called USAFacts that provides one-stop shopping for federal, state and local government statistics. It's just released its annual report.Play10:57May 1, 2019
Meet Florida's Only Democrat Elected To Statewide OfficeNikki Fried was elected commissioner of agriculture on a pro-marijuana platform, and is working with the Republican governor on a variety of environmental efforts.Play10:57Apr 4, 2019
As Cities And Companies Ditch Plastic Straws, Demand For Paper RisesThe demand for paper straws has risen as cities and companies like Los Angeles and Starbucks have stopped using plastic straws. Play07:59Mar 14, 2019
Shampoo And Ice Cream In A Metal Can? Meet 'Loop,' A New Way To Cut Down On Plastic WasteLoop, in partnership with large consumer brands, will offer reusable containers for some 300 household products.Play06:50Mar 5, 2019
Companies That Sift Through False News Online Are Creating A New 'Trust Industry'A host of companies have emerged to combat misleading information online. Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks with the co-CEO of a company that rates news websites on credibility.Play09:37Feb 15, 2019
About 1/4 Of U.S. Breweries Join Sierra Nevada's Camp Fire Fundraising EffortParadise, California, was devastated by the wildfire. Sierra Nevada Brewing Company is headquartered one city over, and is releasing a special beer — Resilience IPA — to raise money for...Play10:38Dec 17, 2018
