We talked to 24 people about the hedge-fund wunderkind at Elliott who wants to shake up AT&T. Here's why management should be terrified.

Casey Sullivan,Bradley Saacks | AT&T is in the sights of the activist hedge fund Elliott Management and a top executive there with a track record for messy brawls with boards.

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SoftBank-backed real-estate brokerage Compass is adding a Netflix-like recommendation feature to browse houses

Alex Nicoll | This announcement, according to a company press release, brings the company closer to creating “the industry’s first end-to-end software platform.”

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Dyslexic, failing at school, and partially blind: How Larry Hite overcame the odds to become one of the most successful self-made stock traders using a strategy that's 'accessible to anybody'

Christopher Competiello | "I have learning disabilities. I have a lot of other problems. But I can take this and apply it — and I've got close to $100 million," Hite said.

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Morgan Stanley wants to roll out a feature for financial advisers to help instantly analyze news and data about portfolio holdings

Rebecca Ungarino | The tool, which Morgan Stanley wants to roll out to advisers in 2020, would consider news headlines and other data to help gauge portfolio risk.

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JPMorgan has a complex relationship with WeWork. Here's a sneak peak at what Wall Street analysts will be asking when it reports earnings.

Shannen Balogh,Rebecca Ungarino | Here's what analysts say they'll be looking for when JPMorgan reports earnings next week. They aren't sounding serious alarms, but WeWork questions are likely.

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BlueMountain is shuttering its flagship hedge fund, and cofounder Stephen Siderow is leaving. The struggling firm will be almost entirely out of the hedge-fund game.

Bradley Saacks | BlueMountain started 2019 running billions in different hedge funds. By the end of 2020, the firm will be almost entirely out of the hedge-fund game.

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Walmart has 1,500 data scientists and is hiring more amid a push to adopt artificial intelligence. The retailer's chief data officer recently shared the 3 questions that guide all its AI projects.

Joe Williams | Walmart has over 100,000 different machine learning or AI-based projects currently in production. The success rate, however, is still just 75 percent.

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A LinkedIn executive's 3-step plan to making a meaningful career change can help anyone who feels stuck in their job

Shana Lebowitz | LinkedIn exec Dan Shapero switched from sales to product using three key strategies. Now he's leveraging that experience as VP of global sales.

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A founder who worked at Tesla and Apple says one class taught by a legendary Wharton professor inspired how he runs his business. Here are the big psychological insights he gained.

Tom Kertscher | As a startup founder, Sankarshan Murthy credits his business success to Adam Grant's Organizational Behavior class at Wharton. Here's what he learned.

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