Stories

Bob Chapman

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...
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Indra Nooyi and her Mother

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...
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Tony Fernandes and the Flight Attendant

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...
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Elon Musk

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...
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Bungie Studios

Bungie Studios, one of the most beloved game developers in the industry, raised the bar for their willingness to take care of their fans. The story begins...
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H’Hen Nie (Ms. Vietnam)

The first and only Miss Vietnam who hails from an ethnic minority, the 26-year-old Finance major came from the Rade tribe whose customs include young women...
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Philippe Pozzo di Borgo

Philippe, the son of a French duke, became quadriplegic following a paragliding accident in 1993. At first, he didn’t adjust well to his disability, once attempting...
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Jasmine Crowe

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....
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Saroo Brierley

Growing up in Tasmania, Saroo Brierley had a map of India on his wall. “The map’s hundreds of place names swam before me in my childhood,”...
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Steve Jobs and Pixar

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...
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