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This is Capitalism: Up Close, Inspired, Explained

Nov 28, 2017

When it comes to turning great businesses into philanthropic legacies, there are two Ford families of note — the one from Detroit, and the one from Little Rock. It was Joe Ford, and later his son, Scott, who built a little telephone company in Sheridan, Arkansas — population 1,338 in the 1940 Census — into...


Nov 2, 2017

It was Ally Svenson’s desire to find a good cup of coffee in London that made an entrepreneur of Scott Svenson, her husband. Each of their three companies has been genuinely successful, but their most recent one may turn out to be legendary — maybe as big as the fast casual restaurants it was modeled after, Chipotle...