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Business strategies and economic theory. Read 38 business & economics stories including The Purpose, The First Cup, The Pivot, The Leap, Abuela's Legacy and 33 more. All stories are free to read online with RSVP speed reading.
A fourth-generation business dynasty heir questions what his company is for and transforms Harrison Enterprises toward social and environmental purpose.
A consultant leaves his secure job to open a specialty coffee roasting business, facing contractors, a departing partner, and an uncertain bank loan.
A startup founder faces pressure to cut thirty percent of her workforce but proposes pivoting instead to save her company and her people.
After being passed over for CEO, a 47-year-old operations manager leaves corporate to start his own precision manufacturing company.
An MBA graduate inherits her grandmother's struggling bakery and must choose between selling or transforming the neighborhood institution.
A marketing executive launches a sustainable fashion brand from her apartment, facing supplier doubts and investor skepticism.
After a heart attack, a hard-driving real estate negotiator discovers his grandfather's wisdom and transforms into a community developer.
A software CEO receives a forty-million-dollar acquisition offer but must decide what happens to her employees and company culture.
A second-generation convenience store owner debates modernization with his son while honoring the legacy of three generations.
A ruthless turnaround specialist discovers that transformation requires building rather than cutting when examining a troubled pharmaceutical division.
After a heart attack, a logistics CEO realizes his success has built walls instead of bridges and must rebuild his life and relationships.
A cleaning company founder with ethical employment practices faces a financial crisis that tests her commitment to humane business.
An African engineering firm's owner loses 80% of revenue to pandemic and must pivot to consulting to survive.
A fourth-generation financial advisor inherits his father's firm and must decide whether to embrace fintech or preserve tradition.
A healthcare consulting firm discovers their pharmaceutical client is concealing adverse trial data and must choose integrity over revenue.
A private equity executive confronts the human cost of leveraged buyouts during a due diligence visit that changes his purpose.
A tech CEO discovers her company culture has become toxic after a viral resignation memo forces her to transform leadership.
A manufacturing empire founder refuses succession planning until a stroke forces his company to transform without him.
A trading company pioneer faces climate change, technology disruption, and geopolitical tensions that force her to reinvent her business.
A patent attorney opens a restaurant to preserve her grandmother's recipes, building from a tiny location to six restaurants.
Maya Chen's artisanal coffee company is three months from bankruptcy when a former tech executive offers her a chance to reimagine her business.
When a private equity firm launches a hostile takeover, a software CEO must rally employees to execute an employee ownership buyout.
A sustainable fashion brand founder discovers her overseas supplier is using forced labor and must fix it without destroying her company.
Three generations of a French winery family must decide whether to maintain traditional methods or modernize to survive in a global market.
A newly promoted managing partner must restructure a legendary VC firm for a changed investment landscape while managing internal power struggles.
Two rival advertising agencies are forced to merge when their parent company demands cost savings, with CEOs who are former colleagues.
A legendary turnaround specialist arrives at a struggling department store chain and must transform it from a retail relic into a modern destination.
Four fintech co-founders discover one has been manipulating user data on the eve of their IPO and must decide between loyalty and duty.
A small medical device company holds a breakthrough patent but a pharmaceutical giant claims they invented it first in a David vs Goliath battle.
A revolutionary cryptocurrency exchange founder must navigate Washington politics and banking lobbyists to save his technology from shutdown.
A manufacturing family's black sheep grandson returns to claim his inheritance while his cousin who prepared for leadership fights to maintain control.
Two tech giants battle for drone delivery dominance until a fatal accident forces them to confront the true cost of innovation.
A legendary trader's AI begins manipulating markets rather than predicting them, forcing him to choose between his creation and global stability.
Warehouse workers at the world's largest e-commerce company attempt to unionize, facing sophisticated anti-union tactics in a high-stakes election.
A new CEO is appointed to transform an oil company to renewables, battling skeptical board members and hostile investors over five years.
A new PE firm leader discovers his father's efficiencies were actually asset stripping and must reform practices while his father rejects change.
An entrepreneur launches satellites to provide free internet to the developing world, but geopolitical conflicts and data harvesting threaten the dream.
A new PE firm leader discovers his father's efficiencies were actually asset stripping and must reform practices while his father rejects change.
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