Topic: Chuck Salter

Rat Race

Late last year, Chuck Salter examined the meaning behind the inflatable union rat that's become a common sight at picket lines and labor protests. The rat will make another appearance today in Boston as newspaper workers challenge ...READ»

Hiring, Practicing

Video game maker Electronic Arts, which Chuck Salter revisits in our December issue, is now hiring in Canada. And the billboards they're using to advertise openings is a wonderful example of communicating direct to your target ...READ»

Calling All Cranks

In the January issue, Chuck Salter examined the many ways telephone calls can be monitored -- and the many reasons why. Companies such as NICE can analyze call recordings to learn which competitors are stealing customers -- and which ...READ»

Letter From the Editor: What We Can't Live Without

When my father was a kid, his family had the first television on the block. Neighbors would come by just to watch the transmission signal. I was reminded of this family lore by Sony exec Steve Haber's comments about e-books in the ...READ»

Healing Yourself Via YouTube: The Amazing and Frightening Future of Health Care

Social media is going to change the health-care industry just as radically as it changed entertainment, finance, and publishing. I know this to be true not because of any insider info or the research backing Chuck Salter's ...READ»

• The Doctor of the Future

Fast Company Magazine May 2009 Issue Online

This Month's Cover Story:Hollywood's Rogue Mogul: How Terminator Director McG Is Blowing Up the Movie Business, by Mark Borden, page 54 How the director known as McG, a master of music videos and guilty-pleasure TV, became a ...READ»

Bladder In A Bottle

Another of this year's Fast 50 winners is making headlines. Anthony Atala, written up by FC writer Chuck Salter last month, is attracting international attention today with the announcement that his university team has successfully ...READ»

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

I was safely here in Boston when the lights went out everywhere else in the Northeast, probably the one time Boston didn't find a way to join in any regional problem. Fast Company senior writer and FC Now contributor Chuck Salter ...READ»

The Future of the Company

Letter from the founding editorsREAD»

Food Service for Thought

A recent entry in FC Now reader Earl Gray's blog Skunkworks offers an interesting corollary to Chuck Salter's recent FC Now entry Project Dysfunction. Gray deconstructs last week's episode of The Restaurant, analyzing the ...READ»

The Most Valuable Player in Sports Is…This Doctor

Fast Company profiles Dr. James Andrews, who is creating champions,minting fortunes, and changing the business of sports.READ»

The Best and the Brightest (Literally) at the Dyson Awards

Last night the 2008 Dyson Product Design Awards were handed out in New York City. (Yes, that’s Dyson as in Sir James Dyson, TV’s most pretentious vacuum peddler.) These prizes are awarded annually for inventions that ...READ»

Jet Blues

JetBlue today announced that its third-quarter earnings fell 71 percent because of hurricanes and fuel and ticket prices. It seems that the startup airline is already facing the problems of the bigs as it tries to join their ranks. ...READ»

Between The Lines

The stories behind this issue's stories.READ»

Grand Masters

Past Customer Service Champions share their customer service experiences.READ»

The Three " Reals"

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

How to Stress Less -- And Smarter

The top stress expert at Canyon Ranch offers five take-home exercises designed to reduce your anxiety and increase your work-life integration.READ»

MIT Uses Smartphone Sensors to Improve Red Sox Players' Performances

Can researchers pinpoint what's keeping Josh Beckett from being pitch-perfect or keep Daisuke Matsuzaka from getting re-injured?READ»

Design Thursday: Don't Get Mad, Design Products

“Anger and frustration are great starting points” for product design, James Dyson, inventor of the eponymous vacuum cleaner, told Fast Company’s Chuck Salter in an interview last spring. At the time, Dyson, who’s famously ...READ»

Freedom from Frenzy

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

Contributors

Peter Yang After majoring in journalism at the University of Texas, Yang spent four years at a newspaper in Austin. “It was a great experience shooting three assignments a day,” the 29-year-old photographer says. ...READ»

The NCAA is not a Fan of the Blogosphere

Or at least the ones who don't have express written consent to reproduce or retransmit any accounts of the game or descriptions thereof...For those of you who don't know, Brian Bennett, a writer for the Courier-Journal in Louisville, ...READ»

Retailing—For Real?—and Dr. Z

Ecstacy! Macy's, the department store chain, tells The New York Times that it will star in a new reality program, "Unwrapping Macy's," debuting in September on WE, the Women's Entertainment Network. Which is a good thing, of ...READ»

Letter From the Magazine: Lessons of the Fall

There is no more common lament in corporate C-suites than the sorry state of the American education system. Our next generation is said to be woefully unprepared for the economy of the future, while other countries steam ahead, ...READ»

Letter From the Editor

Lessons of the FallREAD»