Emma Barker Bonomo

Emma Barker Bonomo is a senior editor at TIME. She covers special projects, including TIME100 Most Influential Companies and TIME Best Inventions. Her work has won awards from the Society of Advanced Business Editing and Writing (SABEW), the Deadline Club, the Gerald Loeb Awards, and the National Magazine Awards.

Recent Articles

A Fun, Flexible Engineering Toy

Can one innovate on the classic marble run, a toy nearly as old as time? STEM toy company Thames & Kosmos has managed to do so with Gecko Run. Designed for kids 8 and up,...

By Emma Barker Bonomo

Making Batteries More Efficiently

To make a standard lithium-ion battery electrode—used in most electric car batteries—manufacturers coat it in a slurry then evaporate the liquid using high temperatures, leaving behind a chemical coating. But the drying process takes a...

By Emma Barker Bonomo

Clean Water, Less Plastic

The chlorine and minerals in shower water can be tough on your hair and skin, but most shower filters’ disposable refills can be wasteful. Filterbaby is known for its top-notch filters—which remove 99% of chlorine,...

By Emma Barker Bonomo

To Keep Workers in Today's Economy, Flexibility Is More Important Than Money

(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.)CEOs know they have a tough road ahead. Many issues they’ve faced over the past two years—remote work, supply chain...

By Emma Barker Bonomo

Well, Elon Musk Has Secured the $46.5B to Buy Twitter in Just a Few Days

Elon Musk says he has gathered up more than enough cash to follow through on his bid to buy Twitter. In a new SEC filing Thursday morning, he confirmed that he has secured the full...

By Emma Barker Bonomo

U.S. Companies at Increased Risk of Cyberattack

(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.)Chris Krebs may be best known for being fired as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in...

By Emma Barker Bonomo

What the Facebook Whistleblower Did to the Company's Stock in 6 Weeks

Facebook’s stock price has been diving since the Wall Street Journal first published initial reports from whistleblower Frances Haugen on Sept. 13. As of Monday’s close, the company’s shares are down nearly 13%. And although...

By Emma Barker Bonomo

Why Companies Aren't Fighting Biden's Vaccine Mandate

President Biden met last week with business leaders to inspire others to require their employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19. His recent guidelines—that all companies with more than 100 employees mandate vaccination or weekly COVID-19...

By Emma Barker Bonomo

The Fed Focuses on Inequality, Low-Wage Workers As U.S. Economy Strengthens

The U.S. job market is rebounding faster than expected and the worrisome inflation consumers are seeing lately is largely under control—and quite temporary. That’s Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s broad diagnosis on the current state...

By Emma Barker Bonomo
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