Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty Images International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde holds a news conference at the IMF headquarters January 17, 2013 in Washington, DC Early on in her career, Lagarde applied to attend Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), a prestigious college in France which prepares …

“Where do you think thoughts come from?” she asked in a conversational prelude to the show. “Do you think they come from the body?” Continue reading the main story If presented with that question herself, Ms. Oberfelder would probably answer yes, as would most anyone who has devoted a lifetime …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, holds a Nvidia Drive PX Auto-Pilot Computer during the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, last March. Nvidia, the market’s best-performing stock in the past year, received a big price forecast increase from Mizuho Securities Tuesday. …

Philip Friedman | Studio D LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner sat down with O, The Oprah Magazine editor-at-large Gayle King at Hearst Tower. The CEO’s questions are: What is your dream job? Looking back on your career, what do you want to say you accomplished? Candidates who are able to provide …

His new book is another pivot. “Golden Hill” is his first novel, and not a typical first novel (mumbled quasi-memoir) but an ebullient, freewheeling historical fiction set in 18th-century New York City three decades before the Revolutionary War. Continue reading the main story I am not a terrific fan of …

Salesforce cofounder Parker Harris, right, with CEO Marc Benioff at Salesforce’s 2015 Dreamforce conference. Artificial intelligence is reshaping Salesforce in the same way that mobile and social did in years past. The company thrived in the transition to mobile computing with custom apps for smartphones and succeeded in social with …

Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Customers shop near a display of General Mills Cheerios cereal at a Costco Wholesale store in Louisville, Kentucky. Cheerios cereal maker General Mills reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit as the company cut back on promotions and kept a tight lid on costs. General …

Photo Stephen Colbert said a recent CNN article was the network’s “worst mistake since their short-lived spinoff, ‘Wolf Blitzer’s Rockin’ Situation Garage.’” Credit CBS Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What do you think of …

Angel Valentin | Washington Post Framed portrait of President Donald Trump on the cover of a TIME Magazine hanging from a column in the Champions Sports Bar & Grill at the Trump National Doral Miami, in Doral, Florida June 24, 2017. Time magazine has since requested the Trump Organization to …

But how to communicate that visceral sense of sweat and thrum and poetry via the cool medium of television? Any new take on Shakespeare’s life and work, in whatever medium, has to decide whether to hang on to the original story and language or whether to modernize them. Continue reading …