Introducing the 2006 Social Capitalist Award winners--25 entrepreneurs solving the world's toughest problems with creativity, ingenuity, and passion. Because they can't stand a vacuum.
Shanghai Tang has learned from its past mistakes--and now it's gunning to become China's first great luxury brand. Forget about cheap socks and DVD players. This is the next battlefield for global competition.
While most Chinese companies have yet to gain global visibility, within the People's Republic, homegrown brands are becoming a source of pride and a badge of the country's emerging self-confidence.
Every year, thousands of executives venture to Bentonville, Arkansas, hoping to get their products onto the shelves of the world's biggest retailer. But Jim Wier wanted Wal-Mart to stop selling his Snapper mowers.
They call it "CrackBerry" for a reason. Once you've gotten your hands on a BlackBerry, the wireless email device now carried by more than 3 million people across the country, life is never the same.
Boutiques such as the W made hotels sexy. Now the concept's getting stale. Five next-generation innkeepers take the experience way beyond a mint on your pillow.
While a student in Serbia, Ivan Marovic cofounded Otpor ("resistance"), which helped topple Slobodan Milosevic's dictatorship. Now Marovic, 32, is out with a video game, A Force More Powerful: The Game of Nonviolent Strategy. He talks about why gamers make the best revolutionaries.
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