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Publications

Businessweek

Arts Business Food

Burger King Is Run by Children

The CEO is 32. The CFO is 28. Their startup is the second-largest burger chain in the country.

Devin Leonard Businessweek Jul 2014 15min Permalink

Arts Music

Get Rich or Die Shilling

The business of being Pitbull.

Emma Rosenblum Businessweek Jul 2014 15min Permalink

Business

The Fall of the Sleaze King

Dov Charney’s struggle to keep control of American Apparel.

Susan Berfield Businessweek Jul 2014 15min Permalink

Business

Twilight of the Pizza Barons

Tom Monaghan started Domino’s. Mike Ilitch started Little Caesers. Both became billionaires, both live in Detroit, both are now over 75. They’ve made very different decisions about how to spend their fortunes.

Bryan Gruley Businessweek Jul 2014 10min Permalink

What Happens When the Amish Get Rich

They lose millions in a Florida real estate scam.

Jen Banbury Businessweek Jun 2014 15min Permalink

Business

How General Motors Silenced a Whistle-Blower

Courtland Kelley knew there was a problem more than a decade ago. He tried to speak up. He sued. He lost.

Tim Higgins, Nick Summers Businessweek Jun 2014 15min Permalink

Arts Music

The Song Remains Pretty Similar

On a recent lawsuit over Stairway to Heaven and Led Zeppelin’s deep catalog of songs that were revealed to have been written by others.

Vernon Silver Businessweek May 2014 15min Permalink

Business

The $13 Billion Mystery Angels

The hedge funders who tried to give away a fortune anonymously.

Zachary R. Mider Businessweek May 2014 15min Permalink

Crime Tech

Missed Alarms and 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It

The story of “the biggest retail hack in U.S. history.”

Michael Riley, Ben Elgin, Dune Lawrence, Carol Matlack Businessweek Mar 2014 15min Permalink

Crime Science

The Irish Clan Behind Europe's Rhino-Horn Theft Epidemic

Unraveling a lucrative crime ring.

Adam Higginbotham Businessweek Jan 2014 15min Permalink

Science World

Drowning Kiribati

Due to global warming, this island nation may cease to exist in 20 years.

Jeffrey Goldberg Businessweek Nov 2013 30min Permalink

Business Tech World

An iPhone Tester Caught in Apple's Supply Chain

Bibek Dhong traveled from Nepal to Malaysia to test cameras for the new iPhone 5. When production ended abruptly, he and his coworkers found themselves stranded for two months without money, food or passports.

Cam Simpson Businessweek Nov 2013 15min Permalink

Business

Is Funeral Home Chain SCI's Growth Coming at the Expense of Mourners?

How Service Corporation International corporatized death, driving growth through everything from aggresive acquisitions, volume pricing on caskets and embalming fluid, a “strong flu season,” and pre-selling over $7.5 billion worth of burials.

Paul M. Barrett Businessweek Oct 2013 15min Permalink

Business

The Secrets of Bezos

What it’s like to work for, compete against, and find out you’re the biological father of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. An excerpt from The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.

Brad Stone Businessweek Oct 2013 30min Permalink

Business

How Brazil's Richest Man Lost $34.5 Billion

Oil and iron-ore baron Eike Batista’s very bad year.

Juan Pablo Spinetto, Peter Millard, Ken Wells Businessweek Oct 2013 15min Permalink

Arts Crime World Food

The Honey Launderers

On the biggest food fraud in U.S. history.

Susan Berfield Businessweek 10min Permalink

Arts Business

Nancy Dubuc, the Duck Whisperer

How A+E’s CEO is navigating the new TV environment with hit shows like “Duck Dynasty.”

Felix Gillette Businessweek Jun 2013 15min Permalink

Business World

To a Chinese Scrap-Metal Hunter, America's Trash Is Treasure

On the road with Johnson Zeng, who buys up the metal “Americans won’t or can’t be bothered to recycle.”

Adam Minter Businessweek Aug 2013 10min Permalink

Business World

Greece's Unemployed Young

When there are too few jobs for an entire generation.

Stephan Faris Businessweek Jul 2013 10min Permalink

Crime

In Iraq, the Bomb-Detecting Device That Didn't Work, Except to Make Money

How a con man named James McCormick sold $38 million worth of phony bomb-detection devices to Iraqi authorities.

Adam Higginbotham Businessweek Jul 2013 20min Permalink

Business

At Sears, Eddie Lampert's Warring Divisions Model Adds to the Troubles

The story of a risky management style gone bust.

Mina Kimes Businessweek Jul 2013 15min Permalink

Business

Booz Allen, the World's Most Profitable Spy Organization

Inside the growth of intelligence contracting.

Drake Bennett, Michael Riley Businessweek Jun 2013 15min Permalink

Business

Caterpillar's Doug Oberhelman: Manufacturing's Mouthpiece

Caterpillar’s CEO made $22 million last year. Some of his employees are on food stamps.

Mina Kimes Businessweek May 2013 10min Permalink

Crime

In Virginia's Fairfax County, Robbing Banks for the CIA

A captured bank robber makes a remarkable claim.

Tom Schoenberg Businessweek Apr 2013 10min Permalink

Business Religion

Edir Macedo, Brazil's Billionaire Bishop

“Which is the largest country in the world, economically speaking? It’s America, the United States. Do you know why? Because way back—this is history, you can look it up on the Internet—the colonization was done by men who believed in the word of God. And they were tithers. That’s why you see on the dollar bill: ‘In God we trust.”

Alex Cuadros Businessweek Apr 2013 15min Permalink

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