Strategy

Bob Chapman, CEO of the manufacturing company Barry-Wehmiller, faced both of those terrible words daily in 2009 as the financial crisis was beginning to wreak havoc...

In January 2010, Japan Airlines (JAL) filed for bankruptcy protection under the Corporate Rehabilitation Law with the largest debt of any company since the end of...

Mario was created by Shigeru Miyamoto, a titan of the video game industry. He joined Nintendo just when it was shifting focus from creating playing cards...

As a designer, Miriam Brafman initially considered starting a design business, or perhaps an e-commerce site. But when she looked for a vendor who could provide...

On a dare – or a bet – Scott Ginsberg wore an event nametag over a weekend while at college. It didn’t take long for him...

Satya Nadella shares a habit with Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates. Both leaders are voracious readers who apply what they learn to propel their organizations into the...

In 2012, Snapchat, when was little more than a year old, was struggling to shake a reputation that it was only popular for sending inappropriate photos....

On September 23, 1997, Steve Jobs told his staff that Apple had eliminated some 70% of its product line. “It’s way too much stuff,” he said....

Nearly seven years ago, Funlayo Alabi’s business, Shea Radiance, was thriving. And when her company got its all-natural skin and hair care products onto the shelves...

Scott Guthrie had been tapped by Steve Ballmer to lead the company’s fast-growing cloud computing service, called Azure. Guthrie visited Azure customers, and their feedback about...