Cross Border
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The billionaire has a new boss
After graduating second-to-last in his high school class, Jimmy John Liautaud began selling submarine sandwiches from a converted two-car garage. Two years ago, he sold most of Jimmy John's to a private equity firm in a deal that forced him to give up control. Can Jimmy John's thrive without Jimmy John behind the wheel?
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Rithy Sear: Delivering the goods
After a four-year odyssey as a refugee, Rithy Sear returned to Cambodia and started an entrepreneurial journey that's made him one of the country's top tycoons and biggest boosters
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Microsoft's new groove
Once dismissed as a hidebound has-been, Microsoft is flying high. CEO Satya Nadella's secret: A cultural reset that has lowered the gates to the software maker's fortress—and cloud, cloud, cloud
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Abiomed: Pumped up
The testimonials are touching, but the scientific proof is wanting. How did a little medical products company get to be worth $14 billion?
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Poshmark: Social shopping
How Poshmark transcended secondhand clothing to become a $625 million fashion marketplace, complete with its own homegrown entrepreneurs
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Gen.g: The world's most valuable esports companies
The nascent esports industry resembles America's Wild West
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Bombardier: Regaining altitude
After blowing billions developing a new jet to compete with Airbus and Boeing, Bombardier almost crashed and burnt. Now an outsider has taken charge and pulled the Canadian company out of its tailspin—but can he get back up to cruising speed?
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How the Jhunjhnuwala brothers redefined their legacy
Can two brothers, one in Hong Kong and the other in Singapore, run rival hotel chains under the same corporate umbrella? These third-generation scions of a storied Indian family show how they do it
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Kerala billionaire donates wealth and kidney to push for transplants
V-Guard Industries Founder K Chittilappilly has set a new standard in transplant-needy India
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2U: Ivory tower in the cloud
Long the domain of seedy degree mills peddling debt-laden vocational training, online education is now a priority, and a profit centre, at top-tier universities thanks to innovators like 2U Inc
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Bangkok's riverboat queens
Starting a century ago, four generations of women have run a company that ferries people across the Chao Phraya. Now the property business is calling