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Making American Dreams While Building the American Dream

Attorney Alexandra Lozano radically reinvented the law firm to create opportunity for clients, herself, and small businesses from coast to coast.

Meet the Next Big Things

These are the fastest-growing companies in their regions-and likely contenders for this year's Inc. 5000. They're still small firms but they're propelled by big, market-winning ideas.

In Customer Service, Talk Isn't Cheap, but It Is Essential

When you erase your phone number from your website, you erase your reputation.

HOLDING THE LINE

How I Got the Idea

Block Shop Textiles has shunned investors for a decade.Good thing Kendra Scott knows how to grow a bootstrapped business.

The jewelry entrepreneur helps Hopie Stockman, co-founder and CEO of the home goods and apparel brand Block Shop Textiles, foster a culture of sustainable growth.

Prescription for GROWTH

The mindblowing journey of psychedelic therapy, from underground taboo to founder's little helper to mental health unicorn.

SHAQ PLAYER PITCHMAN BUILDER.

How Shaquille O'Neal, founder and investor, made himself bigger than ever.

A New American Migration

Black women at midlife are seeking better worlds abroad

A Rolls-Royce In Its Purest Form

With its first electric car, the Spectre coupe, Rolls ditches its famous V-12 engine and finds out who it really is.

Air India Wants to Be The Next Emirates

New owner Tata Group is likely spending $60 billion on jets to expand the carrier globally

Adult Supervision at OnlyFans

Sexually explicit content helped turn the online creator community into a runaway hit-and nearly got it run out of business. The challenge for its 37-year-old CEO Amrapali Gan: Keeping the platform sex-positive, while ensuring content stays above board.

It's Time to Talk About Male Mediocrity at Work

Some men use "strategic incompetence" to avoid work and responsibility. Here's how I learned to stop doing that.

In the US, the Pandemic Was a Time for Sweets

In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, sugar demand plummeted as homebound consumers bought fewer soft drinks and restaurant desserts. Commodities trader Czarnikow Group Ltd. projected the first fall in global sugar consumption in 40 years and a slow recovery.

Fear Made John McAfee Rich. IT ALSO RUINED HIM

The cybersecurity pioneer’s long, strange saga started in Silicon Valley and ended in a Spanish prison By

THE BILLIONAIRE BOMB SCARE

When explosives were found outside Mukesh Ambani's home in Mumbai, the cops blamed terrorists. The truth-and the rot it exposed-was far more alarming

When No One Wins

A year into Putin’s war, the economic toll on Ukraine is obvious. But Russia is equally at risk

Chile's Green Hydrogen Ambitions

The country has the potential to be one of the lowest-cost producers of low-carbon fuels

Welcome Back, Low-Spending Tourists

Chinese budget tour groups were unpopular before Covid. Now nations covet their cash

Don't Let Grandpa Get a New Girlfriend (Or Two)

And other lessons of paramount importance we can learn from the battle over Sumner Redstone’s media empire.

A New Arms Race

As the war drags on, both Russia and Ukraine are using more shells than they can buy or produce

Crypto Is on Thin Ice With Regulators

After the FTX scandal, digital-asset platforms face tough questions and wary banks

The Perils of Survey Fatigue

Declining response rates threaten the quality of US economic statistics

Green's Gray Areas

Al Gore wants to show that sustainability is profitable, but his firm’s results are complicated

How to Have A Better Midlife Crisis

Millennials are trying to do their 40s differently than prior generations. They don’t really have a choice

WHAT GLAXO KNEW ABOUT ZANTAC

THE WORLD’S BESTSELLING HEARTBURN MEDICATION DIDN’T JUST CONTAIN A PROBABLE CARCINOGEN—IT CREATED IT. COURT DOCUMENTS SHOW THE DRUG’S MAKER DOWNPLAYED CRUCIAL INFORMATION FOR 40 YEARS

The Cold War at BEN&JERRY'S

The activist ice cream brand decided to pull out of Israel's occupied territories, setting off a legal battle with its owner, Unilever. What happens when a company Sues itself?

Who's Hungry for Some Lab-grown Meat?

Leading scientists agree that cell-cultured meat products won’t give you cancer, but the industry doesn’t have the decades of data to prove it, so it’s trying to avoid the question instead by Joe Fassler

A Rolling Recession Is the Best Kind

A series of sectoral downturns may help subdue inflation without significant job losses

Adani, Downsized

The billionaire symbol of India’s growth is a lot less rich after a short seller’s attack

A Billionaire's Tough Strategy Goes Awry

Jorge Paulo Lemann set stiff cost-cutting goals. Did Americanas brass go too far to meet them?