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Thinking about applying to business school? The FT’s global education editor Andrew Jack lays out five things to consider before you make a decision. Tap the link in bio to sign up to the FT’s free MBA 101 newsletter course for more tips. #mba #businessschool #financialtimes

FUR-REAL: Pet owners have been forced to make tough decisions as inflation rages. Would you give up your pet if its food was too expensive? Link in bio.

When he co-founded Reddit in 2005, alexisohanian could never have dreamed the social platform would eventually be worth $6 billion. He just wanted people to share stories. Ohanian reflects on the evolution of social media, and what’s next for the industry. Link in bio for full article.

● The US housing market has softened a bit after years of soaring prices and frantic bidding wars, but there’s little reprieve for buyers trying to crack into the market. ● First-time buyers made up the smallest share of sales on record last year, at 26%, even as home values started to cool, according to the National Association of Realtors. And rising borrowing costs and still-high prices have pushed housing to the most unaffordable levels in records going back almost four decades. ● With the spring homebuying season approaching — a time young families often try to find houses before summer and a new school year — scant inventory means the market is still tight. That’s pushing the American Dream of a single-family house with a yard, or even just a simple starter condo, increasingly to people who already have an economic advantage. ● Tap the link in our bio for more. (📸: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Elon Musk has his eyes on a new project: home heating. The Tesla CEO and his executives have teased that the company is considering moving into heat pumps, which are more efficient than traditional heaters and can help reduce planet-warming emissions. The devices have attracted increasing attention since Russia's war in Ukraine set off a global energy crisis. So how do they work, and why is Musk talking about them now? Tap the link in our bio for our Q&A. (via bloomberggreen) 📷: Leon Neal/Getty Images

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS: See how the Florida governor's first job paved the way for his road to success at the link in bio.

US prosecutors have called it one of the biggest frauds in US financial history. How did a crypto exchange allegedly worth $32bn come crashing down in a matter of days? ⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in bio to watch the full FT film.

Havva Arslan holds the hand of her 9-year-old son Saltuk in the container home where the family lives after they were all rescued from the rubble following the deadly earthquake in Nurdagi, Turkey, March 4, 2023. 🔗 Read more about life in Turkey a month after the quake at our link in bio 📷 Susana Vera #Turkey #quake #earthquake #reuters #reutersphotos

Jubilant Foodworks, the operator of Domino's Pizza in India, launched a 20-minute delivery service in Bengaluru on Monday. The pizza giant is set to change the game for quick-service restaurants (QSR) in Bengaluru by guaranteeing delivery within 20 minutes from the point that the customer places the order, making it the first QSR brand to achieve this feat in the city, the company said in a statement. #dominospizza #fooddelivery #dominos

CRIPPLING COSTS: Only 32% of Americans think positively of the economy in the latest Fox News poll. Link in bio.

A 4 day or 5 day workweek? That's the question. Check out our story to share your thoughts! ☝️☝️ A report from Autonomy Work details full findings of the world's largest four-day working week trial to date, comprising 61 companies and around 2,900 workers, which took place in the UK from June to December 2022. Find out via our animation if reduced working hours had an impact on work-life balance and personal stress levels and if so, how. So, tell us; What would you prefer?

Holland Martini (holltini), 32, and Maria Vorovich (vorovmar), 34, like to say that their brains couldn't be more different. As rising stars in the competitive world of market research, both shared a passion for distilling complex patterns into digestible business intelligence. But it was only by combining Martini's gift for identifying patterns in large data sets with Vorovich's instinct for storytelling that both could truly soar. As colleagues at advertising giant Grey Group, they pioneered a "human-centric" approach to market research, but were dissatisfied by the slow pace of change at their company. So they struck out on their own, co-founding goodques_, a self-described "anti-research" market research company, in 2019. But how do you scale a company built on pure chem­istry? Link in bio. #IncRegionals (Reporting by itsmebensherry) 📸: villa_de_rosa

Packaged tea consumption in India has been under pressure due to inflation across the consumption basket coupled with higher tea prices. This is forcing tea drinkers to downtrade, especially in rural areas. Milk prices have also gone up and this has impacted tea consumption along with delayed winters in the north, companies have said. NIQ (formerly known as NielsenIQ) data shows that the packaged tea category grew around 4 per cent in value and volume terms in 2022 compared to 2021. “Although price growth is similar (around 4 per cent) for both urban and rural for 2022, inflation hit rural consumers more as urban consumption growth is on the higher side — around 5 per cent — as compared to rural’s 3 per cent growth,” NIQ said in an email response to Business Standard’s query. #inflation #tea #milk #pricerise #economy #hike #packagedtea #india #chai

At a time when companies are trying to get employees to office, India’s second-largest information technology (IT) services firm has said that a flexible work model will be a key focus for the firm. Satish H C, executive vice-president and co-head of delivery, Infosys, says even before the pandemic, flexible work modes were available at the company. “Assuming we have 20-22 working days in a month, employees were allowed to work 10-11 days from home (even before the pandemic). We will be malleable when it comes to employee work modes,” he says. That the flexible model will continue at Infosys assumes significance as several companies are asking employees to head back to office. #Infosys #jobs #WorkFromHome #ITservices

National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) chairperson Bhushan Patwardhan has resigned, saying he was doing so to safeguard "the sanctity of the post", days after alleging that universities were obtaining questionable grades through unfair means. In a letter to University Grants Commission Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar on Sunday night, Patwardhan said he was resigning from his post. "After careful reconsideration of the entire subject, I hereby resign from the position of Chairman of the Executive Committee, NAAC, Bengaluru in the larger interest of the UGC, NAAC, and Indian higher education system," he wrote. "I wish to reiterate that I had nothing personal in this matter but it was an act to safeguard self-respect and the sanctity of the post of chairman EC and the NAAC," he added. #NAAC #resign #BhushanPatwardhan #UGC