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Photographs by Evan Sheehan and Alex Wallbaum for Bloomberg Businessweek; production by Breakfast for Dinner. The pair assigned each graduate a personality to guide their performance, as the grads interacted and slowly ramped up to full-on battling.

Ursula Burns, Jacob Walthour Jr. and Nicole Reboe in a light moment before a Businessweek roundtable in March

Being Black on Wall Street as DEI Disappears

Getting hired at a leading Wall Street bank typically requires a top-tier education, an outsize effort and a fair bit of luck. Then, to move up the ranks, ambitious employees work grueling hours, relentlessly anticipate their clients’ needs and...

Contributors

○ Senior reporter Matthew Boyle and senior national political correspondent Nancy Cook, both with Bloomberg News, were struck that Trump’s attacks on a company can make a powerful CEO throw their plans out the window. ▷ 7 ○ Nobel Prize-winning...

CEOs Shift Focus From Tariffs to Growth

After months of recession fears and tariff turmoil dominating corporate agendas, CEOs are pivoting from defense to offense. While trade and macro risks remain central in earnings calls, their intensity is waning as companies adapt to ongoing policy...