Hugh Evans
Founder, Global Poverty Project For turning music lovers into activists.Read Full Story
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Chief creative officer, Kate Spade For remaking a brand–and restructuring a culture.Read Full Story
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Founder, CEO, D’Artagnan For growing while staying rooted.Read Full Story
View ArticleFor Facebook, As India Goes, So Goes the World?
What Facebook’s second-largest market reveals about its international ambitions Facebook announced earlier this year that it now has 100 million active users in India, making that market second only to...
View ArticleHow Did Tory Burch Build a $1 Billion Brand So Quickly? Patience.
Childhood lessons from her father encouraged her to set her own schedule. “This is so nerve-racking,” Tory Burch said as she waited to deliver her commencement address at Babson College in May. As she...
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How Tory Burch Measures Up Against Her Competitors
The affordable-luxury category, fashion’s fastest-growing, is dominated by ambitious, market-savvy brands. Illustrations by Ollanski 1. Tory Burch Founder’s current role: CEO, creative...
View ArticleThe Secret to Tory Burch’s Success: Storytelling
The designer had no design training or entrepreneurial experience. So she built her brand on what she knew: her own story Last February, Tory Burch got a gift from her staff to mark the 10th...
View ArticleTory Burch’s Personal Touch
The designer has built a $3 billion global brand by creating stylish, wearable clothing that always includes a piece of herself. “We’re a little behind,” Tory Burch says. Eighteen hours before her...
View ArticleInterview: Kirsten Gillibrand Talks Work, Family, And Why “Women Are...
The senator from New York chats with Fast Company about work, family, and why she revealed so much in her new book. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand speaks her mind, whether it’s in her new...
View ArticleIndian PM Narendra Modi Brings Vision Of “Toilets Before Temples”...
At the Global Citizen Festival, Modi calls on activists to get behind a plan to end open defecation and install toilets in every Indian home. On Saturday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood on a...
View ArticleInspiring Protest Sign Images From Inside Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy...
The signs reflect the passionate diversity of expression of tens of thousands of people fighting for their freedom. Words always matter—but in Hong Kong, they do so to an unusual degree. The culture...
View ArticleSusan Lyne: “I Just Always Believed There Was A Bigger World Out There”
Susan Lyne’s career has been about cultural change. Now, leading AOL’s Built By Girls fund, she’s investing in other women to do the same. Susan Lyne has spent years leading the charge to improve...
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Marije Vogelzang
For reimagining what and how we eat–and training other designers to do the same. Website Facebook Twitter Design has transformed much of modern life, but Marije Vogelzang believes it has barely touched...
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Sree Sreenivasan
For liberating the museum from its physical walls. Website Facebook Twitter When the Metropolitan Museum of Art was seeking its first chief digital officer in 2013, it “wanted someone not from the...
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Thomas Heatherwick
For collapsing the walls within design. Website Thomas Heatherwick’s portfolio includes the London Olympic cauldron, a double-decker bus, handbags, and a revamped factory for Bombay Sapphire’s...
View ArticleDesigner Joy Cho On The Power Of Writing Things Down
That’s just one of her keys to getting everything done. “Things are always racing in my head,” she says. Joy Cho, the Los Angeles–based designer, author, and founder of the lifestyle site Oh Joy!, has...
View ArticleThe Partnership That Built Valentino Into A $1 Billion Juggernaut
Maria Grazia Chiuri’s and Pierpaolo Piccioli’s advice on successful creative collaboration. Since taking Valentino’s reins in 2008, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli have reinvigorated the...
View ArticleMaking Death Easier On Families, The Pocketbook–And The Earth
L.A.-based mortician Caitlin Doughty is helping people reinvent postmortem rituals that are better for all of us. Caitlin Doughty has dedicated her entire professional life to getting us to rethink—and...
View ArticleBjarke Ingels On The Future Of Architecture
“With great power comes great responsibility—to quote Spider-Man.” The puckish Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has built his career on defying convention and distancing himself from his peers. When he...
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