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Steve Nash's Playbook

He's set up a diversified portfolio of 10 businesses insocial media, health, and film -- and two not-for-profits.
By Chuck Salter

Web Exclusive: Steve Nash: The NBA's Top Entrepreneur

Web Exclusive: Baller Steve Nash Scores a Web Video Three-Pointer

By Chuck Salter

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

An exclusive book excerpt by FAST COMPANY columnists Chip Heath and Dan Heath, best-selling authors of Made to Stick.
By Dan & Chip Heath

Calatrava Goes Public

Santiago Calatrava's buildings marry engineering with biology. And they may just be beautiful enough to make Americans care about infrastructure.
By Linda Tischler

The Germans Are Coming

Volkswagen wants to be the world's No. 1 carmaker, but first the company has to win over America.
By Ellen McGirt

Slideshow: The History of Volkswagen

By Zachary Wilson

Willkommen to Chattanooga

By Ellen McGirt

Remembering Never to Forget

By Ellen McGirt

Super Human

Save your tears for Tiny Tim. A boom in sophisticated prostheses has created a most unlikely by-product: envy.
By Paul Hochman

The New New Urbanism

The world is bracing for an influx of billions of new urbanites in the coming decades, and tech companies are rushing to build new green cities to house them. Are these companies creating a smarter metropolis -- or just making money?
By Greg Lindsay

Infographic: Climate (and Crowd) Control

Cisco already has eight green cities on the boards, in addition to New Songdo. twenty more could follow.

Now February 2010

By Fast Company Staff

It Had to Be You

In five years, YouTube has completely reshaped the Internet, media, and political landscapes. On its birthday, here's a look back at its short but influential life.
By David Lidksy

Marty + Leo = Movie Gold?

Shutter Island, slated to open today, will be director Martin Scorsese's fourth film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Their earlier collaborations' success have set a high, perhaps unmeetable bar.
By Erica Westly

Who's Next: Anil Dash

Director: Expert Labs Interview by Jeff Chu

What's Next: Big, Bold Bling

By Fast Company Staff

What's Next: Fair-trade Textiles

By Fast Company Staff

Where's Next: Universal Studios' New Theme Parks

By Fast Company Staff

Attention, Walmart Shoppers: Clean-up in Aisle Nine

The biggest retailer and its suppliers confront how to rate the sustainability of all consumer goods.
By Kate Rockwood

Green Giants

Early progress from four Walmart Sustainability Consortium members.
By Fast Company Staff

In the Sand

What the developing world needs to fight climate change is good governance.
By Stephan Faris

Do Something: We Really Need to Talk

An open letter from Nancy Lublin to her powerful "friends" at foundations.
By Nancy Lublin

Where's the Lab? On Your Cell Phone

A social enterprise's invention could transform medical diagnostics in the developing world.
By Nathaniel Whittemore

First, Do No Harm

The hospital of the future is designed not just to heal the sick but also to help sustain the environment.
By Kate Rockwood and Erica Westly

Infographic: The Hospital of the Future

Killer Apps

Apple's App Store has been a runaway success, but Farhad Manjoo warns its growing rank of copycats that it's not the business model for the 21st century.
By Farhad Manjoo

Ready for Takeoff

A revolutionary software system could take some of the tech turbulence out of air travel.
By Dan Morrell

Death to the Puffy Coat

Hanesbrands embarks on an Everest expedition to test its R&D team.
By Stephanie Schomer

Citi Slicker

Inside the financial giant's lab, where it's engineering the bank of the future -- to be more like a convenience store.
By Dan Macsai

Let the Games Begin!

"Faster, higher, stronger," urges the Olympic motto -- to which we might add "pricier." As the world's best cold-weather athletes gather for the XXI Winter Olympics in Vancouver, here's a look at the Games in numbers.
By Anne C. Lee

Infographic: Let the Games Begin!