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THE BRAVE ONES How a lost pair of glasses and a friendship disrupted the eyewear industry CNBC.com staff@CNBC KEY POINTS Warby Parker has grown from its initial website to include over 100 brick and mortar locations. They’ve just launched a line of contact lenses called Scout. A Warby Parker’s store in The Standard, Los Angeles, … Read more

Cut Costs The Hard Way: Put People Before Short-Term Profit Peter GeorgescuContributor  Leadership Strategy LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 02: An employee (C) walks inside a Lowe’s store on August 2, 2019 … [+] GETTY IMAGES Wall Street has warm feelings for Lowes at the moment. It’s no wonder: shareholder primacy dominates its corporate culture now … Read more

Alphabet health group Verily scoops up Tesla’s former CFO, among other key hires Christina Farr@CHRISSYFARR KEY POINTS Deepak Ahuja, a former Tesla executive who spent two stints at the electric-car maker and helped take it public, is joining Verily as its CFO. Verily is a health and life sciences unit under the Alphabet umbrella. Ahuja … Read more