Updates On Kevin Systrom, Lady Gaga, And More Most Creative People Alumni Before you soak up all the creativity of 2012’s Most Creative People in Business, take a look at the moves some of our Most Creative alumni have been making--the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Updated Fri May 25, 2012
Luxury Resorts Will Bring Jobs to China Beach During the Vietnam War, U.S. soldiers headed to China Beach, a stretch of pristine sand near the port city of Da Nang, for R&R. But that 10-km-long beach isn't particularly restful or relaxing these days, as it undergoes an unprecedented building boom. At least six luxury resorts are rising there, including a Hyatt, a Meridien, and a Raffles. Once they open, they'll create hundreds of much-needed jobs -- and, Vietnam hopes, an invasion of foreigners. But this time, it'll be on its own terms.
Updated Thu May 24, 2012
Fast Company June Calendar June
Week 1
Wed, June 02
NAVIGATE
Designing Change, Changing Design
Updated Thu May 24, 2012
Update: Good Work and Good-bye In the two weeks following the publication of "Look Who's Curing Cancer" (May), about IBM's campaign to recruit the public to volunteer their idle computers for medical research, World Community Grid added 11,000 computers, the sharpest two-week rise so far this year. The Fast Company 54-member team has contributed more than a year of computer time.
Updated Thu May 24, 2012
Re: May 2010 The Mullen Strategy
As a former old-economy New Yorker now living in the refreshingly new-economy Bay Area, I'm often struck by the huge gulf of understanding and opportunity between the two. I'm also constantly inspired by the short list of leaders who are able to navigate the best of both.
Updated Thu May 24, 2012
Looptworks and Upcycling: By the Numbers 60,000 pounds
Average amount of excess fabric, trims, buttons, zippers, thread, and the like produced at a midsize garment factory each week.
$18,000
What a rag sorter got for a pair of collectible Levi's at an auction in Paris.
11.9 million tons
The weight of textiles put into municipal solid-waste streams in 2007. Of that, just 16% was diverted to textile recycling facilities.
Updated Wed May 23, 2012
Upcycling Gives Excess Clothing Fabric a Second Chance Looptworks stitches together an upcycled business model for outdoor apparel.
Updated Wed May 23, 2012
Banking on Eco Projects With Big Stimulus Dollars Can stimulus dollars turn into next-generation green tech?
Updated Wed May 23, 2012
Now: July/August 2010 July/August
Week 1
Sat, July 03
Compete
Microsoft's Imagine Cup
Updated Tue May 22, 2012
International Design Excellence Awards: Easy Latrine Easy Latrine developed by International Development Enterprises (IDE) under funding from USAID and the World Bank Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)
Updated Tue May 22, 2012
International Design Excellence Awards: SlingBox 700U Designers: NewDealDesign and SlingMedia.
Updated Tue May 22, 2012
Warner Music Artists and Execs Find New Ways to Get Creative on the Web Warner music and its artists get creative online.
Updated Tue May 22, 2012
Zilch: Get What You Want for Nothing How to profit by behaving like a not-for-profit.
Updated Tue May 22, 2012
iCensus Who matters in Apple nation.
Updated Tue May 22, 2012
Invincible Apple: 10 Lessons From the Coolest Company Anywhere Everyone wants to be like Steve Jobs and his powerhouse company. It's not as easy as it looks.
Updated Tue May 22, 2012
Re: June 2010 Creative Flow
Finally, a business publication issues a juicy, substantive list of business visionaries and innovators who actually reflect the general population ("The 100 Most Creative People in Business"). I am so sick of publications honoring deathly pale 24-year-old entrepreneurs living in their mom's basement and middle-age white guys working on their fifth startup. Yes, those guys matter. We can learn a lot from them.
Updated Tue May 22, 2012
A Weather-proof HDTV for Snow Days or Summer Nights Perfect fall weekends and wall-to-wall televised sports don't have to clash, thanks to this weatherproof flat panel.
Updated Tue May 22, 2012
2010's Most Imitated Web Businesses The Net is rife with the sincerest form of flattery. Facebook for movie fans? (Really?) Here are 2010's most-imitated Web businesses. Which copycats look like winners?
Updated Tue May 22, 2012
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