Danielle Sacks

Danielle Sacks is an award-winning journalist and a former senior writer at Fast Company magazine. She's chronicled some of the most provocative people in business, with seven cover stories that included profiles on J.Crew's Jenna Lyons, Malcolm Gladwell, and Chelsea Clinton. Sacks has also critically profiled some of the most powerful people in advertising, sustainability, and technology. In 2006 she won the New York Press Club Nellie Bly award. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.

Danielle Sacks

Who The @!#$&% Is This Guy? John Legere’s Strategy For Taking New Customers By Storm

T-Mobile’s CEO is the profanity-spewing shock jock of corporate America. Is this the future of leadership?

Barbara Bush

For giving health care fresh eyes.

Kim Gehrig

For capturing real bodies in motion.

Imran Amed

For quantifying fashion’s value.

That’s A Total K-Hole Thing To Do

How the alt-consultancy group that coined the term “normcore” became a subject of its own art project.

Greg Fong, Sean Monahan, and Emily Segal

For turning detachment into dollars.

Inside Gap’s Plan To Get Back into Your Drawers

Gap’s new CEO Art Peck knows that the first step toward regaining its iconic reputation is making clothes people actually want to wear.

When It Comes to Retail, the Pants Always Wear the Pants

Gap’s new CEO explains why selling women’s clothes is a race to the bottoms.

10 Things You Should Know About Gap’s New CEO

Including his hatred for sweaters that pill.

Ad Legend Alex Bogusky Partners With Fusion: The Complicated Backstory

The man who once fronted for Burger King and Coca-Cola will now spearhead the social impact engine for the new millennial media company.

Venture Capital Should Fuel Your Company, Not Your Ego: 6 Critical Lessons From The Fall Of Fab.com

Investors, sometimes failure actually means failure.

Gap Hires New Design Chief

After ousting creative director Rebekka Bay, Gap replaces her. Sort of.

How Rebecca And Uri Minkoff Are Shaking Up Retail

The fashion-world siblings are bringing digital innovations to the dressing-room experience.

Houzz

For being a one-stop design shop.

Gap Ousts Designer Rebekka Bay

Bay’s departure has us already speculating–and fantasizing–about who might replace her.

Gap Is Shutting Piperlime Down

Piperlime’s shutdown is just one of the big changes Art Peck has made at the San Francisco-based retailer before he even takes over as CEO.

Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario Fights The Fights Worth Fighting

Patagonia tells customers not to buy its clothes and gives away earnings. Somehow, the result is profit and respect.

Katie Couric: “I’m In This Giant Petri Dish Where Anything Is Possible”

Katie Couric explains why Yahoo is the perfect place to reinvent journalism—and her career.

The Story Of Oreo: How An Old Cookie Became A Modern Marketing Personality

Ideas

How Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Sequel” Plans To Convert Viewers Into Activists

This Map Shows Where People’s “Civic Space” Is Most Threatened

Why IBM Pays Its Employees To Take Time Off To Tackle The World’s Problems

Entertainment

This Chrome Extension Makes Every Trump Tweet A Little More Honest

UPDATED: “Sex And The City” Star Mario Cantone Volunteered To Be SNL’s Anthony Scaramucci–And Now He Never Will Be

Inside The Dumbest First Amendment Battle Of 2017

Co.Design

Donald Trump’s Drawing Is Even Worse Than You Think

This Skatepark Is A Sculpture You Can Ride

This Crowdsourced Project Is Mapping Mysterious Photos Of Lost New York

Fast Company

Trump Takes Victory Lap On Foxconn’s Plans For New U.S. Factory

Facebook’s Rumored Smart Speaker Is A Great And Terrible Idea

How Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Sequel” Plans To Convert Viewers Into Activists