Global Game
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Covid-19: Buyout tycoon Michael Kim shut his top fund. Now, he's ready for deals
Kim has an enviable track record: Since its founding in 2005, MBK Partners has, on average, more than doubled every dollar from investors and had an annualised IRR of 18 percent across its four funds
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Tapping China's love for Japanese anime in a pandemic
Medialink's Lovinia Chiu, anime entrepreneur, plans to venture into ecommerce and other merchandise to find new revenue streams for the business, hit by Covid-19
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Billionaire behind world's largest toymaker bets on spuds
Hong Kong billionaire Francis Choi, who got rich making toys, is looking to add to his fortune by moving upstream into biodegradable plastic
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K-Pop's big hit gets hit big
The company behind K-pop Sensation BTS is trying to keep Covid-19 from stopping the music
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Greater capitalism: How the pandemic is reshaping our economic system for the better
The coronavirus pandemic is transforming the economic system day by day, hour by hour. What's emerging is something better, fairer, smarter—and it's happening right now
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Fresh air, fresh profits: How Covid-19 kindled this campsite empire
As the lodging industry collapses amid the pandemic, entrepreneur Warren Meyer has found the only sure thing. His biggest obstacle: Government lawyers
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How could the way out of coal be...more coal?
For generations, the Navajo relied on coal mining for good jobs and to fill the tribal coffers. But with the end in sight for unclean power, the tribe created a company to get them through the transition—yet, unbelievably, it bought them more mines. This surprise deal made them America's third-largest coal miners
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Inside the $2.5 trillion debt binge that took titans from blue chips to near junk
Thanks to the Federal Reserve's low-rate religion, big S&P 500 companies such as Boeing and AT&T have spent the last decade gorging on debt, some recklessly. But instead of heading towards bankruptcy, they're now being propped up by the government
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Billionaires: Larry Ellison's big data battle plan to fight Covid-19
The fifth-richest person in the world has been quietly turning an entire Hawaiian island into a wellness experiment. Now Oracle founder Larry Ellison has been drafted into the fight against the coronavirus, a critical test of whether data can indeed save us
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The Anti We-Work: Why Mark Dixon's coworking company will survive Covid-19
WeWork looks like it might die of coronavirus, but its oldest and largest competitor, Switzerland-based IWG, is well-positioned to survive the outbreak—and thrive in its aftermath. That should be no surprise. After all, IWG's founder, Mark Dixon, has seen this movie before
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World's Billionaires: Masayoshi Son's last laugh?
Between the WeWork debacle and the coronavirus, the markets have deemed his $100 billion Vision Fund largely worthless. But the world's most important investor over the past three years, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son, has other assets, a track record—and a plan