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VIKING RIVER CRUISES By dimming the glitz and emphasizing culture, the company reinvigorated an industry.

Remaking a Classic PACKAGING DESIGN

The 13-egg carton was a design exercise for Randy Ludacer. Then an egg farmer called.

Hitting the High Notes

Startups create the buzz, but some outfits, like music publisher Hal Leonard, born in radio days, outperform for decades.

DINO DON'S BEAST MARKET

A journalist turned his curiosity about prehistoric creatures into a very modern enterprise.

What Makes A City Surge?

The best cities for new businesses in America aren’t always the ones you’d expect. Once again, Inc. and innovation policy company Startup Genome crunched the data to identify America’s hottest Surge Cities—and found there’s lots to learn from their successes.

The Silicon South Is Rising

When Scott Millwood was growing up and going to college near Greenville, South Carolina, he says, “I didn’t see it as a place where I’d want to live.” With the textile industry moving its mills to Asia, “the city faced a really tough transition.” Millwood remembers the grand old Poinsett Hotel, erected in 1925, sitting vacant downtown.

California's Stealth Startup Hub

Once a recurring punch line in Johnny Carson’s monologues, the agriculture-and-oil town of Bakersfield, California—home to the country’s most prolific carrot farm—is not the most obvious example of a West Coast startup hub.

Company Of The Year: Impossible Foods

Its first great feat was making veggie burgers sexy. Its second will be surviving success.

Future Alert Faster Tech

The next generation of broadband wıll reshape industries—and your business.

Food Revolutionaries – Pioneer Woman

Ariane Daguin has spent almost 35 years building the artisanal food company D’Artagnan. Along the way, she’s transformed how Americans think about food. And there’s still so much for her to do.

'Girl Boss'? 'SHE-E-O'? 'Mompreneur'? No Thanks

Enough with the cutesy nicknames

Money Movers - Because Industries Could Use A Shakeup

These founders are redefining old businesses like insurance and banking, and bringing financial services to people who have never had them.

Jazzercise, Smart Socks, Massages And More

Those fitness classes you go to? she basically invented them.

A Celebration Of Women In The Workplace

How a diverse leadership team helped fuel Aflac’s success story

How To Build A Community-And Keep It Thriving

Audrey Gelman has made the Wing’s women-focused shared office spaces into a buzzy club of feminine empowerment built on inclusivity—and, perhaps, exclusivity. Change can be messy. But this is a new kind of company.

Fashion Forward - Founders Project Golden Opportunity

Style icon Rebecca Minkoff mentors Trinity Mouzon Wofford, co-founder of Millennial wellness startup Golde.

How To Create Killer Buzz Around Your Biz

Nudging your customers to sing your praises is the best advertising you never bought. But be careful: There’s an art to this ask.

Lolly Wolly Doodle's Brandi Temple Won Her Company Back-And Then Sold It

Sales at Brandi Temple’s successful children’s clothing company, Lolly Wolly Doodle, dropped by half virtually overnight. Then the real drama began.

Science Pioneers - Bringing Us Robots, Renewable Power And Food Made From Air

Robot co-workers, lifesaving A.I., and food made from the air we breathe. These innovators are engineering the future.

We Found $2 Billion For Women Founders. It's A Start

When Linnea Roberts retired in 2016 from Goldman Sachs, where she’d been a managing director, she didn’t intend to become a startup investor.

Sinking About the Future

Elkay Manufacturing has endured for a century in an unforgiving, cyclical industry by innovating relentlessly around the ordinary.

How I Didn't Get That MBA (And Still Started A Billion-Dollar Company)

In May, the suitcase company Away, which Jen Rubio co-founded with fellow Warby Parker alum Steph Korey in 2015, raised $100 million, at a valuation of $1.4 billion. The company has sold a million suitcases and estimates 2019 revenue will hit $300 million. But Rubio’s path wasn’t always easy wheeling—especially when a controversy threatened to sink her company. As told to Christine Lagorio-chafkin

How I Learned To Run My Husband's Business After He Died

For years, Mary Celeste Beall, 42, played a supporting role at Blackberry Farm, the legendary resort in Tennessee that her husband, Sam Beall, ran. When he died suddenly in 2016, the mother of five had to learn to run it herself— while shouldering the burden of devastating grief.

How I Learned To Tame My Temper - And Become A Better Boss

Samin Nosrat has always been “good with people”—when she’s not managing them. The chef and star of Netflix’s smash hit Salt Fat Acid Heat, adapted from her best-selling book, is as charismatic in person as she is on screen, with an infectious laugh. She’s starting a new company, to produce future TV projects; this time, she’s determined to be a better leader.

Now They're Taking On Saudı Arabia

Paint fumes lingered inside the airy new studio, where my thighs were burning from the endless squats.

Charging Into The Future

Lithium-ion batteries are essential to our lives and businesses—but struggle to keep up with modern demands. Inside the race to build a better battery.

How We Did It - Luke's Lobster

Luke Holden and Ben Conniff started a small chain of simple lobster shacks. Then they started thinking much bigger.

Banking On It

CEO Ken Moelis, 59, co­founded investment bank Moelis & Company just as the U.S. economy tanked, and took it public in 2014 with a $163 million IPO. By Maria Aspan

Get Rolling

Social video can boost both your company’s brand awareness and its sales.

How To Fire Friends

They were there at the start when you needed them. But now you don’t. This won’t be easy.