During a 24-hour swing through Copenhagen last month, Eric Slesinger met with engineers making maritime drones, developers of war-planning software and an adviser to NATO. He had recently visited London for a dinner with a senior British intelligence …

Last December, I asked my students at Wharton to nominate and vote on topics for our final class. The runaway top choice was leadership lessons from Elon Musk. It’s become a hot topic among the corporate elite, too. At a recent leadership conference …

“Existential Bread,” a book by the poet and amateur baker Jim Franks, is only sort of about bread.

Nine states have set goals to conserve 30 percent of their land by 2030. Maryland got there first.

The solar panels on the churches were inspired by Scripture. So were the LED lights throughout the buildings, the electric-vehicle charging stations, the native pollinator gardens and organic food plots, the composting, the focus on consuming less …

Eric Chamberlain was at work, driving a hearse, when he first caught sight of the wind turbine that would set him on a path to change the fortunes of his hometown. It was the mid-2000s, and Mr. Chamberlain was leading a funeral procession in Iowa …

When Angela Chalk first heard there were ways that ordinary people could offset flooding in New Orleans, she was skeptical. Her neighbors in the Seventh Ward knew all about heavy rains that brought knee-high floodwaters, spilling into porches and …

The company, which has branched out from Greek-style yogurt, will invest more than $1 billion in the plant in the city of Rome.

As pontiff, Francis sought to build bridges with global corporate leaders, who sought audiences with him — but also to remind them about the need to look out for the poor.