Cross Border
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Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen's Health Philanthropy
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen helped revolutionise the world with personal computers. Now, he’s betting half a billion dollars that he can do something even more radical: Draw a circuit diagram of human consciousness
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Oprah Winfrey's Charity Show
Five years ago, the talk show titan’s altruism turned into the worst crisis of her adult life. Rather than abandon her South African school, Winfrey learnt from her mistakes—and doubled down on what she believed in
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Schneider Electric Lays Focus On Data Centres
Schneider Electric’s Jean-Pascal Tricoire is jolting the hidebound French company with a focus on data centers—and American-style capitalism
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How Formula 1 Racing Came to Texas
The vision guy got iced out. The bond trader and the billionaire took over. Will the new track be done in time? The sordid story of how Formula 1 racing came to Texas
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Is Nokia On the Brink of Oblivion?
If the onetime king of the mobile phone industry gets wiped off the map, don’t blame CEO Stephen Elop. He made the best of a bad situation
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Change.Org: A Startup Making Social Campaigns Easy
Change.org sounds like a charity, but it’s not. It’s a clever (some say sneaky) startup that manufactures a ‘grassroots’ campaign with the click of a button
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Starbucks India Isn't Celebrating Yet
The iconic coffee chain from Seattle has made quite a splash with its launch in India. But it isn’t getting carried away by the early success
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The Top 50 U.S. Dealmakers
Private equity may be getting pummeled on the US presidential election campaign trail, but the deal scene is boiling. Forbes ranks the biggest players not just by their war chests—and reputations—but also by the ultimate criterion: Successful exits delivered for investors
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What Renuka Sugars Learnt From Brazil
Narendra Murkumbi has learnt some bitter lessons with his Brazilian ventures, but he might be putting them to good use
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The Truth about Bain Capital
The house that Romney built has much more than an election-driven image problem. Just ask its investors
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The Kings of Private Equity
Private equity is the most politicised, scrutinised, vilified industry in America. Yet David Rubenstein and the Carlyle Group, once poster children for creepy Beltway connections, have managed to both avoid the criticism— and rake in billions