Cross Border
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How Solar Panels Work Without Human Force
Solar panels have gotten so cheap that installlers are seeking new ways to push down the cost per clean kilowatt. One answer: Get rid of the humans
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Wall Street Wakes Up to New Sleeping Drugs
Merck’s potential rival to blockbuster Ambien is big medical news, but Wall Street’s reaction has been snoozy so far. That’s a big, big problem for drugmakers
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How Jeff Skoll Plans to Tackle Poverty through Social Entrepreneurship
The former eBay president has put $1 billion behind a new kind of philanthropy, a brew that blends social entrepreneurship and the power of media to tackle poverty and any other problem that piques his interest
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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