- Big-Box Rebound: How Target Packaged a TurnaroundIn 2017, the struggling megachain spooked Wall Street and earned mockery in the retail world by committing billions to revamping its stores. Today, more-inviting shopping floors and smoother e-commerce have turned Target into a winner again.
- Electric Car Gold Rush: The Auto Industry Charges Into ChinaGlobal carmakers like Volkswagen are betting that electric vehicles are the future. But to win in the world’s largest EV market, they will have to battle a host of fierce new Chinese competitors. Oh, and Tesla.
- An Insider Takes Aim at Corporate America’s ‘Elite Charade’As a conference-circuit regular and former McKinsey consultant, writer Anand Giridharadas has seen firsthand business leaders' efforts to solve social problems. Here’s why he’s come to see those efforts as more self-serving than world-changing.
- America’s CEOs Seek a New Purpose for the CorporationFor more than two decades, the influential Business Roundtable has explicitly put shareholders first. In an atmosphere of widening economic inequality and deepening distrust of business, the powerful group has redefined its mission.
- 11 Female CEOs and Founders on What It’s Really Like to Have a Baby While Running Your CompanyThe women behind The Wing, Outdoor Voices, Birchbox, and other startups share stories of taking meetings from the hospital and rethinking parental leave.
- Boxed In at the Docks: How a Lifeline From China Changed GreeceWhen Chinese shipping giant Cosco snapped up the historic port of Piraeus, it threw Greece an economic lifeline. Now the port’s success is reshaping the Greek political landscape—and generating choppy waters for China in Europe.
- China’s Biggest Private Sector Company Is Betting Its Future on DataPing An built an empire around safe and staid products like life insurance. Now it's betting its future on inventive uses of big data—and gearing up to do battle with fast-growing tech giants like Alibaba.
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