Fast Company's 2011 China Project: An Introduction At the beginning of 2011, Fast Company set out to spend a year in China, documenting the transition, transformation, and innovation in that country.
Updated Fri Dec 30, 2011
Designer Eugenia Kim Brings High Fashion to Target Designer - Eugenia Kim for Target
Updated Wed Aug 31, 2011
The Evangelist Annise Parker, right, with her partner, Kathy Hubbard, was elected Houston's second female -- and first lesbian -- mayor in 2009.
Updated Wed Jun 29, 2011
Inside Vestas's Plan to Create More Energy-Conscious Consumers Wind-turbine manufacturer Vestas is launching a WindMade trustmark to compel shoppers to consider the energy behind their consumer goods. But will people adjust their buying habits?
Updated Thu Jan 20, 2011
Michelle Rhee Wants to Spend $1 Billion Fixing Education How -- and why -- she created her new interest group, students first.
Updated Fri Jan 14, 2011
Fixing Washington D.C.'s School System No one is attacking Washington, D.C.'s stagnant culture more boldly than Michelle Rhee, head of the city's failing schools. Is there a lesson here for our nation's leaders?
Updated Thu Jan 6, 2011
Michelle Rhee Announces Launch of an Education-Reform "Movement"
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Students First, her new interest group/political lobby, will push her brand of change--and seek to raise $1 billion for the cause.
Updated Thu Jan 6, 2011
How Willow Creek Is Leading Evangelicals by Learning From the Business World Willow Creek, one of the nation's largest and most powerful megachurches, leads evangelicals by learning from the business world's best.
Updated Thu Dec 9, 2010
Outgoing Chancellor Michelle Rhee's Permanent Stamp on D.C. Schools “Education is unlike any other industry in the world,” Kaya Henderson, the incoming interim chancellor of the Washington, D.C., schools, told me two years ago, when I was working on a profile for her now-outgoing boss, Michelle Rhee. “It’s bizarro world.”
Wed Oct 13, 2010
Tony Hawk Talks Business in His New Book Nobody has ridden skateboarding to moguldom like Tony Hawk, who traces his unlikely journey in a new book, How Did I Get Here? The Ascent of an Unlikely CEO.
Wed Sep 15, 2010
Stanford University's Unique Economic Engine Sixty next year, Stanford Research Park is, more than ever, the innovative heart of Silicon Valley.
Wed Sep 15, 2010
Rob Forbes Plugs "Evolutionary" Public D 3-Speed Bicycle If you had asked Rob Forbes a few years ago to recommend a good city bike, he would have said, "Get a used bike from the 1960s." Today, Forbes, who founded furniture retailer Design Within Reach and now heads the design shop Studio Forbes, would reply: Buy mine.
Fri Jul 9, 2010
How to Make a Great Web-Curated Summer Meal Seasonal pleasure in every Web-ordered bite.
Thu Jul 8, 2010
The Bravest Doctors in the World The outstanding new documentary "Living In Emergency" follows four Doctors Without Borders volunteers as they try to heal the ailing--and themselves--in Congo and Liberia.
Fri Jun 4, 2010
How America's Top Military Officer Uses Business to Boost National Security Admiral Mike Mullen says the sea was his business. Now, as America's top military officer, he's reshaping strategy for a world in which economics and security are intertwined.
Sat May 1, 2010
Update: The Resurgence of Rwanda Rwanda, whose grand attempt at renaissance we chronicled last April ("Rwanda Rising"), hit two milestones in recent months. First, the World Bank named it the No. 1 reformer in its Doing Business 2010 report, recognizing the steps the government took in 2008 and 2009 to create an inviting investment environment. It was the first time a sub-Saharan economy has ever topped the rankings.
Mon Mar 1, 2010
New DWR CEO: "Mean, Dictatorial" Predecessors Left Team "Hand-Shy, Like a Dog That's Been Hit" [Exclusive] In an exclusive interview, new Design Within Reach CEO John Edelman talks about knockoffs, DWR's desperate need for a better Web presence, and China.
Posted Mon Dec 21, 2009
The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach Retailer Design Within Reach helped create a new appreciation for the modernist aesthetic. With design more mainstream than ever, why is the company in such dire straits?
Posted Tue Dec 1, 2009
"Reverse Graffiti" Artist Paul Curtis Shows Us How Dirty We Really Are If there is a lesson in the work of the British artist Paul Curtis (aka "Moose"), it would be that the world is a mess. Curtis's signature technique is cleaning.
Posted Thu Oct 1, 2009
