Eric Schmidt How Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the PentagonFortune - James Bandler, Anjali Tsui, Doris Burke This article is a collaboration between Fortune and ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative news organization. On Aug. 8, 2017, Roma Laster, a Pentagon …
Retail Big-Box Rebound: How Target Packaged a TurnaroundFortune The room was no bigger than a walk-in closet, a tight fit for Target CEO Brian Cornell and the team of executives and support staff who were sharing …
Volkswagen Electric Car Gold Rush: The Auto Industry Charges Into ChinaFortune In a drab industrial zone of western Shanghai, amid factories that each year crank out hundreds of thousands of gasoline-powered cars, transmissions, …
Leadership An Insider Takes Aim at Corporate America’s ‘Elite Charade’Fortune The setting is ironic for a late-afternoon cocktail with Anand Giridharadas, the self-appointed scourge of well-meaning plutocrats everywhere. The …
CEOs America’s CEOs Seek a New Purpose for the CorporationFortune For Milton Friedman, it was simple. “There is one and only one social responsibility of business,” the Nobel economist wrote in 1970: to “engage in …
Pregnancy 11 Female CEOs and Founders on What It’s Really Like to Have a Baby While Running Your CompanyFortune As generations of small business founders can attest, having a baby while running a company is nothing new. But in the world of big business, leaders …
Attica (Greece) Boxed In at the Docks: How a Lifeline From China Changed GreeceFortune When Chinese shipping giant Cosco snapped up the historic port of Piraeus, it threw Greece an economic lifeline. Now the port’s success is reshaping …
China’s Biggest Private Sector Company Is Betting Its Future on DataFortune Ping 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 …
Cloud Gaming Is Big Tech’s New Street FightFortune Satya Nadella has grown used to the naysayers. For years, Wall Street analysts questioned why Microsoft, the company famous for its Windows operating …
AbbVie Protect at All Costs: How the Maker of the World’s Bestselling Drug Keeps Prices Sky-HighFortune You may not have any of the conditions Humira treats. But chances are, you’ve heard of it. AbbVie’s flagship therapy, a medicine used to treat a slew …
Can Sweetgreen’s Salad Evangelists Get America to Finally Eat Its Vegetables?Fortune At Ward’s Berry Farm, 30 miles south of Boston, the first day of May dawns cloudy and cold, with a spitting drizzle that renders an umbrella more …
Pride After Pride: How Corporate Allies Support the LGBTQ Community After the Party EndsFortune - Natallie Rocha During the month of June, many brands turn their logos into LGBTQ-friendly rainbows, triggering the annual debate: has Pride Month become too …
‘How Much Is a Little Girl Worth?’: The Painful Financial Fallout of the Larry Nassar CaseFortune On Jan. 24, 2018, Rachael Denhollander walked into a Michigan courtroom to speak about the sexual abuse she suffered as a child from Larry Nassar. …
Lessons From the VC Who’s Seen It All BeforeFortune Wearing a long-sleeve black shirt, blue shorts, a knee brace on his right leg (basketball injury), and a backpack filled with water bottles and an …
Business Meet the A.I. Landlord That’s Building a Single-Family-Home EmpireFortune Erin Burrus has endured some misfortune in recent years: After a cancer diagnosis, she lost her home to foreclosure. Today she’s healthy again, and a …
The Fall and Rise of VR: The Struggle to Make Virtual Reality Get RealFortune Paul McCartney made his modest contribution to the future of virtual reality with a little help from a bike mechanic. The unlikely union of the …
The Wing Lands in Boston and Finds an Advertising Double StandardFortune - Kate Flaim All The Wing was trying to do was “mute the mansplainers” and start a conversation! But recently the company found itself in a fix when two subway …
Here’s How the United Technologies-Raytheon Merger Could Make Life Even Harder for BoeingFortune - Ellen Florian President Trump, activist investor Bill Ackman, and antitrust experts are just a few of the parties that have expressed concern about the proposed …
This CEO Is Disrupting Consumer Packaging to Fight the Garbage CrisisFortune - Erika Fry Tom Szaky, the founder and CEO of TerraCycle, is known for recycling the unrecyclable—cigarette butts, chewing gum, diapers—but last year, as he …
S&P 500 Has Performed 35% Worse Under Trump Than Under ObamaFortune - Erik Sherman During his first two years in office, Donald Trump regularly pointed to the stock market as proof of his leadership’s effectiveness. Experts may have …
This Island Escape Is Italy’s Best-Kept SecretFortune Known as “the black pearl of the Mediterranean” for its striking black-lava cliffs, the volcanic island of Pantelleria—the largest of Sicily’s …
Batteries The Race Is on to Build a Better BatteryFortune At first glance, all seems serene on a spring morning at the research-and-development campus of SK Innovation, one of Korea’s biggest industrial …
Making Billions at the Dollar StoreFortune The boxy, brick-fronted shop in the town square of Scottsville, Ky. (population: 4,500), is one of the oldest stores in the Dollar General chain—and …
‘A.I., Captain’: The Robotic Navy Ship of the FutureFortune The swells in the middle of the North Pacific were reaching nine feet when one of two engines on the diesel-powered U.S. naval ship called Sea Hunter …
AT&T Has Become a New Kind of Media GiantFortune AT&T was not actually acquired by a company called Game of Thrones Corp. earlier this year, though consumers could be forgiven for wondering. AT&T …
Business Bets on a Quantum LeapFortune It was a marvel of engineering, a harbinger of a future of unimaginable computational power. It also bore a striking resemblance to a garbage can. Q …
Skunkworks: Inside the Innovation Labs of 3 Fortune 500 CompaniesFortune At the Facebook AI Research lab, the online publisher is teaching robots how to learn. It promises to share the results with its friends. Daisy, a …
Sears’ Seven Decades of Self-DestructionFortune The kindest media attention Sears has attracted in years arrived in April, when the company announced it was opening three small stores. “The start …
Sears Could’ve Been Amazon. Here’s How It Blew Its ChancesFortune Fifty years ago, Sears was an economic dynamo, as dominant in retail as Amazon and Walmart are today. In 1969, Sears sales alone accounted for 1% of …
