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.

Fast Company Magazine

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?

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

Barbara Bush

For giving health care fresh eyes.

Barbara Bush

Greg Fong, Sean Monahan, and Emily Segal

For turning detachment into dollars.

Greg Fong, Sean Monahan, and Emily Segal

Kim Gehrig

For capturing real bodies in motion.

Kim Gehrig

Fast Company Magazine

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.

That’s A Total K-Hole Thing To Do

Imran Amed

For quantifying fashion’s value.

Imran Amed

10 Things You Should Know About Gap’s New CEO

Including his hatred for sweaters that pill.

10 Things You Should Know About Gap’s New CEO

Fast Company Magazine

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.

Inside Gap’s Plan To Get Back into Your Drawers

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.

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

Most Creative People

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.

Ad Legend Alex Bogusky Partners With Fusion: The Complicated Backstory

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

Investors, sometimes failure actually means failure.

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

Gap Hires New Design Chief

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

Gap Hires New Design Chief

How Rebecca And Uri Minkoff Are Shaking Up Retail

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

How Rebecca And Uri Minkoff Are Shaking Up Retail

Houzz

For being a one-stop design shop.

Houzz

Gap Ousts Designer Rebekka Bay

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

Gap Ousts Designer Rebekka Bay

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.

Gap Is Shutting Piperlime Down

Fast Company Magazine

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.

Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario Fights The Fights Worth Fighting

Fast Company Magazine

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.

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

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

In 2013, Oreo changed its image, and maybe changed advertising, with a real-time marketing coup. While its famous creative–culturally relevant tweets and Facebook posts–seemed simple and spontaneous, the social success was the result of an overhaul of a large CPG company’s marketing philosophy and processes. CMO Dana Anderson and the marketing team behind the Oreo phenomenon discuss how they made the transition from self-involved advertiser to nimble content creator.

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

Fast Company Magazine

Oreo Tags Pop Culture

The iconic cookie decided it has something to say, so it’s been gabbing all over Twitter and YouTube. So, are sales going up?

Oreo Tags Pop Culture

Impact

In a battle between this endangered flower and a lithium mine, who should win?

The price tag for a net zero transition: $3.5 trillion a year

This guaranteed income pilot gives low-income New York mothers $1,000 a month

News

This fake memoir perfectly parodies the failed-comedian-to-conservative-pundit pipeline

A Dutch TV mogul blamed women for not reporting sexual abuse. This was their response

You may be done with the pandemic but the pandemic isn’t done with you

Co.Design

From reels to ruins: See inside America’s crumbling movie theaters

The trolliest drop this year uses illegal logos from Coca-Cola, Walmart, Tesla, and Microsoft

From plaid to Prada backpacks, see the ’90s fashion that’s making its museum debut

Work Life

3 faulty assumptions you’re probably making about your coworkers

This is how to skip the small talk and have more meaningful conversations according to science

We’re not getting back to normal. Ever. Here are 3 strategies to manage now