Tech Industry 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 …
Leadership Pride After Pride: How Corporate Allies Support the LGBTQ Community After the Party EndsFortune During the month of June, many brands turn their logos into LGBTQ-friendly rainbows, triggering the annual debate: has Pride Month become too …
Larry Nassar ‘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. …
EBay 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 …
Oculus VR The Fall and Rise of VR: The Struggle to Make Virtual Reality Get RealFortune - Aric Jenkins 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 …
Travel This Island Escape Is Italy’s Best-Kept SecretFortune - Alexandra Kirkman Known as “the black pearl of the Mediterranean” for its striking black-lava cliffs, the volcanic island of Pantelleria—the largest of Sicily’s …
The Race Is on to Build a Better BatteryFortune - Jeffrey Ball 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 - Phil Wahba 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 …
U.S. Navy ‘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 - Geoff Colvin 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 - Robert Hackett 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 …
Tech Industry Skunkworks: Inside the Innovation Labs of 3 Fortune 500 CompaniesFortune - John Patrick Pullen 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 - Geoff Colvin 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 - Phil Wahba 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 …
CVS Wants to Make Your Drugstore Your DoctorFortune - Shawn Tully Over the entrance of what looks like a regular, aging CVS drugstore outside Houston, a billowing blue banner announces “HealthHUB Come Inside!” …
Inside Google's Civil WarFortune - Beth Kowitt It started in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2018, when 100 employees walked out of Google’s office at 11:10 a.m. local time. Thirteen hours later, the elevators …
Occidental Petroleum The Occidental-Anadarko Petroleum Merger's Crude Truth About Oil PricesFortune - Jen Wieczner On the last Friday in April, Warren Buffett got a call from Brian Moynihan, the CEO of Bank of America, asking if he would back Occidental …
It's All Clicking for Wayfair, a Fortune 500 NewcomerFortune - Jeffrey M. O'Brien Not long after graduating from Cornell back in 1995, Niraj Shah and Steve Conine decided to compare their meager bank accounts. Both fresh-faced …
Finance 5 Numbers to Watch to Spot the Next RecessionFortune - Jen Wieczner In June, economists will mark the 10th anniversary of the end of the Great Recession. But even as traumatic memories of that crisis recede, investors …
How the Kleiner Perkins Empire FellFortune - Polina Marinova Some five years ago Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, founders of a potentially disruptive no-fee stock brokerage startup called Robinhood, set out to …
Esther Wojcicki's Secrets for Raising Great LeadersFortune - Michal Lev-Ram Esther Wojcicki didn’t set out to raise CEOs. But she knew she wanted her children—and students—to have an upbringing vastly different from the one …
Chef José Andrés Won’t Wait for Permission to Feed the World’s HungryFortune - Beth Kowitt The staff of Fortune recently assembled our 2019 list of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders. This story is part of that coverage. In March, chef José …
Year of the Woman How the Congressional Pink Wave Is Changing the Face of LeadershipFortune - Kristen Bellstrom In the run-up to last year’s midterm elections, pundits chewed through hours of cable news programming, speculating about a potential blue wave. But …
Mental Health How CEOs Are Making Mental Health a Less Taboo Topic at WorkFortune - Carson Kessler Not long ago, it would have been considered a terrible move for anyone on the business fast track to talk openly about their struggles with mental …
