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Any company can sell Product X or provide Service Y, but what differentiates you from everyone else in your field is your company philosophy. A company’s philosophy is a distillation of its culture or ...

You hear a lot about both "big business" and "small business" in the United States, but you don't hear so much about mid-size businesses. There's a simple reason for that: The federal government doesn ...

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The stock market is quickly waking up to the fact that Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL) is the leading AI software company today. It has overtaken Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and is less than $200 ...

Gelles writes about the intersection of climate and the corporate world and has covered Patagonia for nearly a decade. A half century after founding the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard ...

Pilot Company is one of the leading suppliers of fuel and the largest operator of travel centers in North America. Jim Haslam founded the company in 1958 and his son, Jimmy Haslam, is currently ...

Mills and smokestacks in Lowell, Massachusetts, considered by some historians to be the first real company town in the U.S. CORBIS During the Industrial Revolution, company towns—communities built by ...