Creative Forces
Our annual Most Creative People in Business list highlights the year’s most impressive designers, entertainers, CEOs, and more.

Ideas Welcome
The 100 companies featured on our Best Workplaces for Innovators list encourage, develop, and reward inventive thinkers..

Better Business
Now is the perfect time for companies to move beyond “woke capitalism” and actually change their behavior.

The Recommender
A Surrealist chess set designed by photographer Man Ray, colorful jugs, and other things Fast Company is loving this month.

Exit Strategy
Introducing our inaugural “Six Under Six” list, showcasing the young innovators rapidly shaping our future, for better or worse..

The Recommender
A design-forward water bottle from Hay, classic summer sandals, and other recommendations from the Fast Company community.

Paying It Forward
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman (right) is practicing a more inclusive capitalism...

The Recommender
A colorful, minimalist vase; a CBD-infused sparkling water; and a smart ukulele make up our favorite products for spring.

Exit Strategy
READY OR NOT, HERE IT COMES 
5G will arrive before we know it. Are you prepared? Take this quiz to find out.

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Smart Cities Pittsburgh’s pivot from Rust Belt town to tech hotbed.

Master Class This designer makes museums mesmerizing.

Data Dive Fashion resale apps are trending.

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Something's brewing: Colorado-based craft beer outfit New Belgium is inspiring capitalist reformers with its employeeowned
business model. 

Challenging the Winners Author Anand Giridharadas is questioning long-held beliefs about philanthropy and do-good business. Plutocrats are listening.

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Creative Conversation Mike Judge on the end of Silicon Valley—and the very real, very entertaining place that inspired it all.

It Never Gets Old Grey Group CEO Michael Houston on his love of Pop-Tarts.

Google on the Brain The tech behemoth’s worldshaking quest for AI supremacy.

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The Softer Side of Hardware An exclusive look inside Google’s Design Lab, where VP Ivy Ross (left) leads the effort to make
beautiful, touchable tech. 

Atlanta Opportunity Black entrepreneurs, including Paul Judge
of TechSquare Labs (below, left), are building a tech-startup scene down south.

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Michelle Pfeiffer Has a New Role Her safe, sustainable perfumes are challenging the luxury fragrance industry.

If Startup Founders Told the Truth The honest pitch deck they don’t want you to see.

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What Would J.J. Do? J.J. Abrams is a content-producing machine. Here’s why whoever signs his company, Bad Robot—which he runs with his wife, Katie McGrath (bottom left)— could dominate Hollywood.

Amazon’s Top Employer How HR chief Beth Galetti approaches the management of the company’s swelling workforce.

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Target’s in-house advantage The retailer’s private brands are thriving.

The Trust Business Truepic is helping us believe what we see.

enter the super app Why Meituan and Grab top our list and much and more...

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Master Class Match Group CEO Mandy Ginsberg on helping all sorts of people find their person.

Building Blocks What’s behind (and below) Hudson Yards, NYC’s built-from-scratch neighborhood and much more...

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Millennial Leaders: The Oldest millennials are approaching their forties. Here's how they're managing their organizations 

Up close with Farfetch: Fresh off its IPO, the e-commerce giant's founder, jose Neves talks the future of retail and much more...

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The NFL’s Bold Play The league’s first male cheerleaders
are work place equality pioneers.

Material World a surfboard made out of wool has implications
for cars, yachts, and more.

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Melinda Gates’s Art of Investing The global leader explains why she’s betting on women and people of color with her new fund,Pivotal Ventures.

Zagat, Back on the Menu The iconic, pocket-size guidebooks
ushered in the era of crowd sourcing.Now, after a decades-long journey (and being owned by Google), they’re being revived again. An oral history. BY BEN PAYNTER

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LinkedIn shows us where the top talent lives, works, and studies. BY JAY WOODRUFF

Navy veteran Deja Baker’s unconventional career journey.
BY BURT HELM 

Artificial intelligence is transforming the talent pools of major companies. BY AUSTIN CARR and much more...

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No. 10: Rethinking ride sharing Anthony Tan has morphed Uber
competitor Grab into a multipurpose sharing platform.

No. 14: Netflix’s audience whisperer Chris Jaffe finds innovative ways to keep 125 million subscribers hooked and much more...

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A MODEST PROPOSAL: Luxury fashion startup the Modist is tapping into a global market for full-coverage, yet trendy, clothing. By Claire Dodson

PEPSICO'S FRESH START(UP): The massive snack corporation
went lean to develop a new water bottle and flavor-pod system. By Katharine Schwab and much more...

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Top 50 Most innovative companies in business: From Apple and patagonia to spaceX and pinterest, 50 enterprises driving disruption today

Top 10 lists: The most innovative companies in 36 sectors, from AI to wellness

The Recommender: From rope art to a sound bath, what the dast company community is loving right now and much more...

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A Dinner Time Debate: 

Michelin-starred chef and restaurateur Dan Barber locks horns with tech veteran Kimbal Musk over how best to feed the world while saving the planet.

Grassroots Opportunities: Emerging cannabis-industry leaders explain how diversity and cutting-edge science can be baked into any enterprise and much more...

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Jack Antonoff - Producer,Musician and Songwriter

Bernard Tyson - Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Permanente

Dona Sarkar - Head of windows insider program, Microsoft and much more...

TECH + CULTURE ISSUE : Kevin Durant Builds An Empire, Stella McCartney Cleans Up The Planet, Netflix Clashes With Disney, Can Social Media Defuse ISIS?  | Why Levi’s
Loves Silicon Valley...

THE GREAT AI WAR OF 2018 - AMAZON , APPLE , FACEBOOK , GOOGLE , IBM, MICROSOFT & MORE.

Where Apple and Google fall short Why the most exciting smartphone innovations aren’t coming from the usual suspects.

Bumble takes aim at LinkedIn The fast-growing dating app lets users swipe through potential matches—both personal and professional.

Blockchain transforms the UN New technology upends the system for dispensing essential supplies to refugees.

After Vampire Weekend Four ways music-maker Rostam Batmanglij inspires ingenuity from A-list artists.

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SHONDA RHIMES Sparks a Movement, Why AIRBNB BUZZFEED CASPER NETFLIX Can’t Be Ignored, 25 BRANDS THAT MATTER NOW and much more...

NO FEAR - Elon Musk is the biggest risk-taker in business. Will merging Tesla and SolarCity be his undoing?...

Why Netflix Envies YouTube.

A New Reality at Facebook.

Fitbit We  Work Tumblr Nike Chipotle Droga5 and More...

100 MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE IN BUSINESS - RISING STARS. BRILLIANT LEADERS. SECRET WEAPONS.

Bloomberg Philanthropies’ city fixer - James Anderson incubates entire municipalities to help them solve systemic problems— and creates a blueprint for other cities along the way. 

GM’s electric spark - Pamela Fletcher engineered the groundbreaking Chevy Bolt: the first long-range, low-cost, all-electric car.

Snap’s wearables whisperer - Lauryn Morris designed Spectacles to succeed in a field that has stumped Google, Microsoft, and Magic Leap.

Diversity’s new champions - Former Goldman Sachs employees are helping Facebook, Airbnb, and others diversify their teams....

PUT YOUR VALUES TO WORK - Lessons on profit, purpose, and good business from Airbnb, Facebook, Uber*and more.

OUR STATE-BY-STATE GUIDE TO INNOVATION.

WHY MARVEL RULES THE UNIVERSE.

United States of Innovation & More...

Plus! Mark Zuckerberg Bares His Soul.

IMMIGRANT. CEO. BILLIONAIRE. HOW CHOBANI FOUNDER HAMDI ULUKAYA IS WINNING AMERICA’S CULTURE WAR.

BRANDS IN THE AGE OF TRUMP - A SURVIVAL GUIDE.

The Best World-Changing Ideas of 2017.

Instagram Snaps Back & More....

THE WORLD’S 50 MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES - THE BUSINESSES THAT MATTER MOST IN 2017.

Prime Time for Amazon - The e-commerce giant is amping up its membership program and taking bold leaps into the real world.

Google Pictures  Perfect - With the help of unparalleled computing resources and a dash of AI, your photographic memories are becoming searchable.

Microsoft Makes the Honor Roll -  Minecraft allows the company to turn learning into an otherworldly adventure.
 
Conversation Theory - Glossier, Kenzo, Clique Media Group, Hypebeast, and Reward- Style convert personality-driven content into sales.

FIND YOUR PURPOSE - 175 inspiring business lessons to navigate the year ahead.

How to Lead in 2017 - Ninety-six of the world’s most inspiring visionaries share their insights on leading with purpose in a time of uncertainty—and opportunity.

The Kings of Customer Experience - Union Square Hospitality Group CEO Danny Meyer and Warby Parker co-founder Neil Blumenthal on how technology can make for a more personal enterprise.

Food for Thought - PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi and vice chairman Mehmood Khan have positioned the company to champion social accountability.

Changing the Channels  - How actor Sarah Jessica Parker and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong foster creativity.

Playing Their Own Game - Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank and golfer Jordan Spieth on finding the right allies.

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