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Egypt Business Activity Grows at Near-record Pace in September
After three years of political turmoil following the 2011 uprising, business activity in Egypt has finally picked up, expanding at a near-record pace in...
Business Forum in Cleveland to Focus on Purpose Over Profit
Call it flourishing. It’s a movement beyond traditional notions of corporate sustainability, demanding more than just doing less harm. The vision for flourishing companies builds on best practices...
Utah Businessman Receives Life-Changing Gift From Stranger
Walking up and down the roads with his ladder, Jared Auger was proud of his manual labor because it provided for his family.
Richard Uhl...
Autistic Business Owners Capitalize on Strengths, Find Income and Joy
A growing movement to find work for autistic people is helping some start their own businesses.
Work requiring an attention to detail and with repetitive...
Long Successful Bookseller Gives Business to Staff in Canada
What do you do when you’re 84 and own Canada’s most beautiful bookstore? And one that is thriving.
Sell it? You could. Close it? You...
An Immigrant Tariq Farid Made Fruit Baskets a $400 Million Business
Tariq Farid says his family would "still be struggling" if they were in Pakistan. Instead, they opened a flower shop in Connecticut and Tariq later...
An American Home or Business Goes Solar Every Four Minutes
Buried at the very bottom of a fact sheet released at yesterday’s White House Solar Summit is a striking statistic: “Every four minutes, another...
Man With Cerebral Palsy, Autism Starts Can Collecting Business
With every can or bottle he collects and returns, Tyler Laviolette takes one step closer to fulfilling the dream of his parents, who wanted...
Iowa Business Rescues Animal Shelter in Frigid Cold
An animal shelter in Iowa had a crisis of cold noses when their furnace broke down during the sub-zero weather in January.
The Clinton Humane...
U.S. Bankers Voice New Optimism as Businesses Line Up for Loans
Loans to businesses have risen to a record high and bank executives say they are increasingly optimistic about the U.S. economy.
Increasing demand for bank...
Autistic Man’s Gift for IKEA Assembly Turns into Business
Canadians in Edmonton who are baffled by assembly instructions for IKEA furniture can hire Brad Fremmerlid, a 24-year-old man with severe autism who can...
New Zealand Couple Moves to India to Upend the Business of Slavery
Freeset organic cotton bags are at the heart of a business set up to abolish the enslaving trade of prostitution for India's poorest women...
World Bank Raises $165 Million in Bonds for Women-Owned Businesses in Africa
The World Bank on Wednesday said its private sector arm issued about $165 million in 'women's bonds' in the first such sale by the...
Middleman Gives Tons of Business Surplus to Charities
Partnering with 40 hotels and dozens of businesses, Judson Kinnucan, 37, has made it his mission to collect their donated items, like surplus shampoos...
Alaska Airlines Donates to Coral Reef Conservation While Greening its Business
Alaska Airlines is teaming up with The Nature Conservancy to help restore coral reefs in Hawaii. Touting the paper-reducing benefits of its mobile app,...
4th Generation Succeeds at Renewing Family Oyster Business
The Virginia family sold its first Chesapeake Bay oysters in 1899 to supplement their farming income. But the Croxtons’ son, who took over the...
Why Businesses Make a Mistake Pushing Older Workers Out
There is a downside to pushing out older workers, in favor of younger ones.
Less gray hair in an organization can sharply reduce its innovation...
Modern-day Robin Hood Applies Business Skills to Philanthropy
Ask Wall Street bankers the net worth of hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones, and they'll tell you, $3.6 billion. But ask a homeless...
Muslim Bagel Business Owner Donates All Profits to Boston Charity
Ehab Sadeek, an Egyptian Muslim who owns a bagel store in Winchester, Mass., called the marathon bombers “cowards who don't represent my faith or...
Business Owner Installs Elevator for Girl to Keep Family in Home Built by Ancestors
The owner of a construction company installed an elevator in the home of a family whose 9-year-old daughter Sara has cerebral palsy.
As a result,...