Every so often, a flash sale rolls around that makes you genuinely question why you’d ever pay full price for anything again. Right now, there’s a live deals page packing 18 items — real tools, real gadgets, real everyday essentials — all priced under $10, several marked down by more than 90% off their original […]
A week. That is how close Will Ahmed’s company came to filing for bankruptcy in 2018, roughly six years after he started building it as a 22-year-old Harvard senior with no prior company, no full-time work experience, and no formal training in hardware engineering, computer science, or medicine — the three disciplines his business sat […]
On the day Xerox announced Anne Mulcahy as its new chief executive in 2001, the company’s stock dropped 15% within hours. “That was a real confidence builder,” Mulcahy later joked about the moment, with the kind of self-deprecating humor that would come to define her public persona throughout one of the most studied corporate turnarounds […]
A few hundred feet from a McDonald’s and a budget clothing store, sandwiched between two busy and polluted roads in West London, an unusual group of city residents has been quietly transforming a forgotten patch of land into a lush, thriving wetland. They have no construction permits, no engineering degrees, and no payroll. They are, […]