The Original Corporate Raiders
The East India Company was once “too big to fail.”
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Bain: A Consulting Firm Too Hot to Handle?
On Mitt Romney and company.
End Game
How Curt Schilling’s video-game company went bust.
A Modern Mess
The rise and fall of Design Within Reach.
Lauren Hilgers is a journalist and the author of Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown.
“You just need to spend a lot of time with people. And it’s awkward. I read something when I was first starting out as a journalist in China, ‘Make a discipline out of being uncomfortable.’ I think that’s very helpful. You’re going to feel uncomfortable a lot of the time, and just decide to be okay with it and just keep going with it.”
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As Nations Age, a Chance for Younger Nations
The world’s population is rapidly getting older. How China and other countries stocked with young workers are taking advantage.
Pentagon’s Top Official for East Asia Led Think Tank Funded by Defense Contractors and Foreign Governments
One expert warns that policies advanced by the think tank could lead to military conflict with China.
Broken Promise
On the meeting of shaggy-haired American ping pong ace Glenn Cowan and Chinese master Zhuang Zedong (who died this week), and how their fleeting friendship thawed relations between the twon nations during the U.S. team’s historic 1971 tour of China.
The Erasure of Mesut Özil
A year ago, he was one of the Premier League’s highest-paid players. Now, after angering China and refusing a pay cut, he has simply vanished.
Will Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley Finally Get It Right?
A startup’s rocky search for profitability.
The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes
From failure to Pixar, Steve Jobs’ “wilderness years.”
Charles Duhigg is a New York Times reporter and author of The Power of Habit.
"The stuff that gets cut out gets cut out for a reason. The discipline of space is always a good discipline. If it deserves to be read, it shouldn't be on the cutting room floor ... If it ends up on the cutting room floor, there's usually a reason why."
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Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet
A look at the artists and writers who drive for a New York cab company. The story that inspired Taxi.
The House of Second Chances
On L.A.’s Homeboy Industries, which offers former felons—including at least one disgraced CEO—the chance to work.
Can a Better Vibrator Inspire an Age of Great American Sex?
How one company is rethinking the business of sex toys.
Odyssey and the Lost Spanish Treasure
The international battle over 17 tons of coins discovered by an American deep-sea treasure hunting company.
James Frey's Fiction Factory
James Frey is starting a publishing company, paying young writers (very poorly) to reverse engineer a Twilight-esque hit.
The Beginning of the End of the World
A “reckless” fracking company, poisoned springs, and a family forced to buy water at Walmart.
Bad to the Bone
A medical device company experiments on humans.
Deep Inside Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco
Creation of a fast food phenomenon.
The Great Tech War Of 2012
Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook vs. Amazon.
The Aging of Abercrombie & Fitch
How does a company that sells youth learn to grow up?
Crowd Source
On a company that provides fake paparazzi, pretend campaign supporters, and counterfeit protesters on demand.
The War to Sell You a Mattress Is an Internet Nightmare
Why did Casper sue a mattress blogger?
