Stories

As terrorists seized control of four airplanes on Sept. 11th, 2001, Ben Sliney, chief of air-traffic-control operations at the FAA’s command center in Herndon, Va., gave...

Your main task this afternoon is to interview the last two candidates for the position of manager on your team. At the close of the second...

It was 2001, and an earthquake had just hit Gujarat, a state in western India. Thousands of people died and nearly 400,000 homes were destroyed. So...

Some business stories I hear are worth telling  and this is one of them. About a year ago I had the opportunity to work with a...

“This is the captain speaking, brace for impact.” This is how Chesley B. Sullenberger (“Sully”) addressed his 150 passengers before doing the maneuver known as the “miracle on the...

Diego Maradona was a child of the potreros. He described himself as a “cabecita negra” – a little blackhead, the term used by Eva Perón for those of mixed...

The bread slicing machine was invented 15 years before sliced bread became popular. Sliced bread didn’t catch on because Otto Rohwedder, the guy who invented the...

In Europe in the 1840s, many new mothers were dying from an ailment known as puerperal fever, or childbed fever. Even under the finest medical care...

Every time you go shopping, you share intimate details about your consumption patterns with retailers. And many of those retailers are studying those details to figure...

After having a faulty Medtronic catheter thrown at him by an angry surgeon, then CEO Bill George began investigating why he hadn’t known about quality problems...