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Nollywood Goes Netflix

Thanks to streaming, Nigeria’s film industry could finally get its global close-up.

England 4, Brexit 0 (With Foreign Help)

The finalists in Europe’s two top soccer tournaments are English. The coaches and many players aren’t

Your Employees Want More Financial Transparency. Now What?

Advice from the founders of America’s fastest-growing private companies.

The Fog Of (Trade) War

Markets had priced in a short skirmish. Now they’re bracing for a drawn-out fight

No Meetings? No Late Nights? No Work Insanity?

What if working long hours, living on Slack, and growing as fast as possible isn’t the best way to run a business? The founders of Basecamp are pretty sure they have the answer.

The Trouble With Unicorn IPOs, Starting With Uber's

Maybe Uber Technologies waited a little too long to go public

Whom Do I Hire First?

I’m starting to hire, and, frankly, I need more help than I can afford. How do I prioritize what roles need to be filled?

What VCs Want

Kirsten Green, the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures— whose portfolio includes Glossier, Hims, and Away—details what makes her want to invest in a brand, today’s biggest opportunities, and how the tech world is about so much more than technology.

Serving Double Duty

Kiesha Haggerty splits her time between life as an Oakland cop and as a Subway franchisee—but she’s found the two worlds to be surprisingly complementary.

My Instant Hit Was A Total Failure

I had a great product. An immediate financial winner. But you know that gut feeling? Here’s what I found out. (Trust me, it was painful.)

Learning To Fail

What can adult founders learn from fearless teenagers? Plenty.

Fight For Your Vision

Melissa Butler knew her line of brightly colored lipsticks would be a hit—so when the beauty industry ignored and even rejected her, she kept moving forward.

Walmart Ups The Delivery Game With Next Day Shipping

Walmart is rolling out free next-day delivery on its most popular items, increasing the stakes in the retail shipping wars with Amazon.

India Is Running Out Of Time

The world’s largest democracy faces huge pressures from its expectant but underserved youth

Amazon Offers To Help Employees Start Delivery Business

Amazon, which is racing to deliver packages faster, is turning to its own employees with a proposition: Quit your job and we’ll help you start a business delivering Amazon packages.

How Barilla Put Pride In Its Pasta

In 2013 the pasta giant’s chairman publicly rebuked gay families and set off an international boycott of its products. His CEO worked to reprogram the company into an inclusive, accepting workplace and made it OK to buy Barilla again

Amazon Opens First Go Store That Accepts Cash

Amazon launched its high-tech Go convenience store a year ago, where shoppers can pull items off the shelf and walk out. Now it’s adding a decidedly low-tech feature: accepting cash.

Building In The Material World

Pioneering technology defines Boral North America’s versatile building product.

They're Coming For Your Eyeballs

W.L. Gore, one of the world’s most innovative companies, is hunting for new product lines—and reinventing itself in the process

Year Of The Pig Apocalypse

The ripple effects of China’s epidemic of African swine fever could reach as far as Brazil

We Are The 1%

In the winner-take-all world of Big Business, the rich companies are getting richer and the poor poorer

The HGTV Generation Gets Flipped

Rookie real estate investors and rehabbers get their first taste of a downturn

A New Formula For Formula One

The same teams win F1 races almost every weekend. John Malone aims to change that

'It Was Engineering That Would Have To Bend '

How Did Boeing, Renowned For Its Engineering Culture, End Up In Such A Tailspin? By Putting Its Bottom Line Above All Else

‘Privacy-focused' Facebook Puts The Spotlight On Groups

Facebook is launching a major redesign of its app and website built around letting people connect with groups that share their interests — an attempt to shift its focus away from the untrammeled public sharing that has helped spread hate speech, extremism, misinformation and live-streamed video of massacres.

Ways HR Can Help Organizations Through Disruptive Growth

People tend to think of disruption as a calamitous, generational event. Ask someone in business for an example, and they might cite how e-commerce has disrupted physical retail stores, or how social media and the internet have disrupted the newspaper business.

The Miracle Of Microsoft

Microsoft, that blue screen of irrelevance, is bigger than Apple (slightly), Amazon, and everybody else. How’d that happen?

San Francisco Billionaire Gives $30M To Study Homelessness

A San Francisco billionaire is donating $30 million to the University of California, San Francisco, to research root causes of homelessness and potential solutions.

HR Technology: The Hidden Secret Of Great Organizational Cultures

You need a great culture to land the best employees in a talent seller’s market. Technology can help.

Pump It UP

Creating Complete Solutions for Service Stations Fuels Success for the Seneca Companies.