CEO Stories

Nadella tells the story about his first round of interviews at Microsoft about 25 years ago. An up-and-coming Microsoft manager named Richard Tait asked Nadella a...

A toothpaste factory had a problem. Sometimes empty boxes were shipped without the tube inside. Understanding how important it was to solve this problem, the CEO of...

In 2008, the St. Louis-based manufacturing company Barry-Wehmiller suddenly lost 30 percent of their orders due to the effects of the recession. The company needed to...

Story in Indra Nooyi’s Words – “I’ll never forget coming home after being named President of PepsiCo back in 2001. My mother was visiting at the...

When we started AirAsia Thailand there was this woman we hired as a flight attendant. A year into it she came and asked me, ‘Tony, I...

The world knows Elon Musk as a wealthy, imaginative genius — the man who is making electric cars mainstream and putting rockets in space. But when...

In America, one out of seven people go hungry every day. For black and Hispanic kids, that number can hit as high as one in three....

In 1986, shortly after he was forced out of Apple, Steve Jobs bought a small computer manufacturer named (drumroll) Pixar. In 2000, he relocated the company to...