story + business
- Peter Serafinowicz: Why I Steal Movies… Even Ones I'm In
- In the meantime, I'll be suing myself for pirating my own show. And I'm pretty scared, because I have an amazing lawyer.
- 2010-06-21 to bestof, business, media, piracy, story by soobrosa
- Jill Lepore: Not so fast - The history of management consulting
- Scientific management started as a way to work. How did it become a way of life?
- 2009-10-11 to bestof, bullshit, business, consulting, data, management, profile, story by soobrosa
- Brad Stones: An E-Commerce Empire, From Porn to Puppies
- Although Mr. Gordon has yoked together disparate endeavors that support pornography, the Bible, and prevention of animal abuse — all by marrying the universal purchasing power of credit cards to the respectability conveyed by slick Web sites — those f
- 2009-10-11 to bestof, business, media, porn, profile, religion, stickam, story by soobrosa
- Martin Sandbu: The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil
- Poor countries dream of finding oil like poor people fantasise about winning the lottery. But the dream often turns into a nightmare as new oil exporters realise that their treasure brings more trouble than help.
- 2009-10-11 to bestof, business, energy, iraq, norway, oil, portrait, story by soobrosa
- The Big Takeover
- The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution
- 2009-03-25 to banking, business, crisis, finance, gaming, story by bagoly
- Slumdog paupers: The Oscar-nominated film has made £70m but its two child stars still live in abject poverty
- Their home is a flimsy structure made of tarpaulins and blankets in the overcrowded Behrampada shanty area, where rats crawl around in daylight and sewage runs untreated as children play barefoot.
- 2009-02-20 to bestof, business, movies, poverty, story by bagoly
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
- Asked many years later for the secret of their success, he and his friend Bill Gates both gave the same answer: “Focus”.
- 2008-10-05 to bestof, biography, books, business, finance, investment, markets, portrait, story by soobrosa
- The Man Who Was Texas
- In the late 1940s, the press informed an astonished America that some of its wealthiest citizens were a group of oilmen that included H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Hugh Roy Cullen. Another of them, the swaggering, combustible Glenn McCarthy, would emer
- 2008-09-24 to business, fame, history, oil, portrait, story by bagoly
- Really, Really, Big in Britain
- her reality show is a continuing success on British television; that her three autobiographies, all written before she was 30, have been No. 1 best sellers; that her endorsed product lines of lingerie, jewelry and perfume are about to be joined by housewa
- 2008-09-15 to bestof, business, celeb, celebrity, media, portrait, society, story by bagoly
- The Tastemaker - Stefano Pilati
- From the start, Pilati sought to re-establish Yves Saint Laurent’s sophisticated legacy. On a fundamental level, YSL has always represented an oasis of good taste. “There’s a formality to my designs,” Pilati said. “And yes, I think people can learn taste.
- 2008-09-05 to bestof, business, fashion, profile, story, vanity by bagoly
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