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Fortune Asia
HOW TO PLAN YOUR NEXT $100,000 VACATION
ON AN EXCURSION to the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, clients helicoptered in after-hours so they could tour the ruins alone.
5 min |
February - March 2025
Fortune Asia
ELLIOTT HILL JUST DOING IT
Staffers and brand loyalists cheered when Nike’s new CEO came out of retirement to lead the company he has had an irrational love” for since he began there as an intern. Turning it around will take more than good vibes.
10+ min |
February - March 2025
Fortune Asia
RUNNING ON FUMES
GM'S CENTURY-OLD CHINA BUSINESS CAN'T KEEP UP WITH THE COUNTRY'S EV BOOM.
7 min |
February - March 2025
Fortune Asia
The Blackstone Edge
90 DAYS. DOZENS OF INTERVIEWS. BILLIONS ON THE LINE. HOW BLACKSTONE'S CEO-MAKER GETS THE JOB DONE.
10 min |
February - March 2025
Fortune Asia
Meet the next Warren Buffett.His name is Greg Abel.
The folksy business builder wowed his mentor to win the most closely watched succession race in corporate America. But can anyone really replace Warren?
10+ min |
February - March 2025
Fortune Asia
When Elon Musk has a really tough job, he turns to Steve Davis. DOGE might do the same.
IT WAS THE FALL OF 2022 when employees at Elon Musk's Boring Company began to notice Steve Davis wasn't around.
5 min |
February - March 2025
Fortune Asia
AN INCOMPLETE ACCOUNTING: WHAT LOS ANGELES LOST IN THE FIRES
ROSS SIMONINI carried his 3-month-old baby, his dog, and some clothes. He had some hard drives and his computer, but the charger never made it out of his house, which had stood in Altadena, Calif., for almost 100 years.
2 min |
February - March 2025
Fortune Asia
ASK ANDY SHOULD MY STARTUP RAISE MONEY FROM VCS? IF SO, WHICH ONES DO I CHOOSE?
A FRIEND'll call him Allen-spent years bootstrapping his real estate enterprise software company. After a long struggle to get to $1 million in sales, his business recently surged to $10 million, and revenue is now growing 100% year on year.
2 min |
February - March 2025
Fortune Asia
AN INCOMPLETE ACCOUNTING: WHAT LOS ANGELES LOST IN THE FIRES
ROSS SIMONINI carried his 3-month-old baby, his dog, and some clothes. He had some hard drives and his computer, but the charger never made it out of his house, which had stood in Altadena, Calif., for almost 100 years.
2 min |
February - March 2025
Fortune Asia
How much can DOGE do?
Elon Musk and Donald Trump aim to cut as much as $2 trillion in federal spending. It'll be even harder than it sounds.
5 min |
February - March 2025
Fortune Asia
YOUNG PEOPLE ARE DRINKING LESS ALCOHOL. CAN CEO MICHEL DOUKERIS PERSUADE THEM TO KEEP DRINKING AB INBEV'S BEERS?
SOME TIME AGO, top CEOs at an invitation-only seminar at Harvard Business School were asked to imagine the four crises they would likely confront during their tenure at the top: a health emergency, a geopolitical conflict, an economic downturn, and a trade war.
6 min |
February - March 2025
Fortune Asia
AI MAY NOT TAKE OUR JOBS AFTER ALL
JUST LOOK AT THE PHILIPPINESc
4 min |
February - March 2025
Fortune Asia
Trump's first trade war caused U.S.firms to flee China.Now comes round 2.
DURING HIS FIRST TERM as president, Donald Trump shook up global trade by imposing new tariffs on China, the world's epicenter for manufacturing.
6 min |
February - March 2025
Fortune Asia
TECH AI'S HIDDEN BIASES MAY BE INFLUENCING WHAT YOU THINK. HERE'S WHAT SHOULD BE DONE TO STOP IT
TRISTAN HARRIS, cofounder and executive director of the Center for Humane Technology, has been called \"the closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience.\"
4 min |
August/September 2024
Fortune Asia
THE LILLY PALOOZA
Not long ago, it looked like the best days of Eli Lilly were behind it. But tirzepatide, a drug for diabetes and obesity, has sent the 148-year-old pharma giant on awild ride. It’s now the ninth most valuable company in the world.
10+ min |
August/September 2024
Fortune Asia
INSIDE VW'S EV COMEBACK
First Tesla outmaneuvered Volkswagen. Now Chinese EVs are challenging VW's dominance. The world's largest automaker was late to the EV revolution, but it's racing to catch up by reaching into its deep pockets and leveraging its massive scale.
9 min |
August/September 2024
Fortune Asia
AN AI ISLAND
INSIDE SINGAPORE'S QUEST TO NAVIGATE BETWEEN THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SUPERPOWERS
6 min |
August/September 2024
Fortune Asia
A RETURN OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT
As Japan finally emerges from a long period of slow growth, soy sauce producer Kikkoman continues its global advance.
2 min |
August/September 2024
Fortune Asia
CARS APOCALYPSE CHIC: TESLA'S CYBERTRUCK GIVES LUXURY A NEW SHAPE
FIVE YEARS AFTER Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled plans for his polarizing Cybertruck, I found myself standing in a downtown Los Angeles parking lot on an afternoon in July, surveying the automaker's surrealist take on the electric utility vehicle: a triangular behemoth, sharp-angled and brutalist.
3 min |
August/September 2024
Fortune Asia
INVEST AS AI GOBBLES ELECTRICITY, IS NOW THE TIME TO BUY UNLOVED UTILITY STOCKS?
Ever since uttering the letters “GPT” became enough to summon a salivating venture capitalist, tech giants have been gobbling up electricity at the scale of small countries, consuming ever-greater power supplies to fuel the AI future.
4 min |
August/September 2024
Fortune Asia
LEADING JAPAN'S ECONOMIC SECURITY IMPERATIVE
As geopolitical tensions rise, consulting firm Kitamura Economic Security is helping businesses fortify their defenses and seize opportunities.
3 min |
August/September 2024
Fortune Asia
NORWAY'S NICOLAI TANGEN RUNS THE WORLD'S BIGGEST SOVEREIGN FUND. CAN HE LEVERAGE ITS ASSETS TO CHANGE BUSINESS FOR THE BETTER?
Oslo, with its neatly painted houses and serene waterfront, is not known for high drama.
6 min |
August/September 2024
Fortune Asia
GOVERNANCE WHAT AMERICAN POLITICS CAN LEARN ABOUT SUCCESSION PLANNING FROM AMERICAN CORPORATIONS
A POPULAR ADAGE about leaders says the most effective of them build self-sufficient organizations. If the conductor leaves, the orchestra plays on.
5 min |
August/September 2024
Fortune Asia
WORLD'S LARGEST COMPANIES
Our annual list of the world’s largest companies by revenue reflects the eternal tug of war between venerable giants and young upstarts. We visit the German factory where Volkswagen—No. 11 on this year’s Fortune Global 500—is arming itself to vie with Chinese newcomers for electriccar dominance (page 30). We look at the weight-loss-drug windfall that turned 148-year-old Eli Lilly into the world’s most valuable drugmaker (page 36). And we profile India’s HDFC Bank (page 26), a “new age” bank cracking the list after a daring merger. For the full scorecard of winners and losers in global business, head to the Lists (page 44).
4 min |
August/September 2024
Fortune Asia
Thailand Reclaims Its Tourism Mojo
The country is attracting fewer visitors than pre-COVID, but its tourism sector is thriving with new offerings, savvy marketing, and government help.
4 min |
June/July 2024
Fortune Asia
Walmart's Mr.Fix-It
When Doug McMillon became CEO in 2014, Walmart's sales had stagnated, and customers were defecting to Amazon in droves. Over the next 10 years, he built an e-commerce powerhouse-and extended Walmart's ironfisted hold on the Fortune 500's No. 1 spot. Can McMillon and the big-box giant stay on top in a digital age?
10+ min |
June/July 2024
Fortune Asia
Has Indonesia Hit the Nickel Jackpot?
Indonesia has 42% of the world's supply of nickel, a key component in electric vehicle batteries. It has struck deals with Tesla and is leveraging the resource to boost its economy. But the strategy is risky, relying on dirty and dangerous practices-and an uncertain EV market.
4 min |
June/July 2024
Fortune Asia
Where Corporate America Learns History Lessons
Fortune 500 long timers like Procter Gamble, Delta Air Lines, and Coca-Cola have poured resources into in-house museums, hoping to learn from the triumphs—and mistakes— of bygone days.
4 min |
June/July 2024
Fortune Asia
RACHEL ROMER BUILT GUILD INTO A $4.4 BILLION UNICORN. AFTER ROMER SUFFERED A STROKE AT 34, BIJAL SHAH WILL NAVIGATE ITS NEXT CHAPTER
RACHEL ROMER remembers lying on the ground on a warm August evening last year, watching as darkness descended around her.
6 min |
June/July 2024
Fortune Asia
Inside the Cult of Costco
The retailer's hundreds of warehouse stores are overstuffed and overwhelming-and that's all by design. We delve into the method behind the madness that turns shoppers into obsessives.
10+ min |