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Your smartphone camera: Meet the man behind the curtain
FORTUNE — You don’t have to be Ansel Adams to take a cool picture with a smartphone. Part of that is because every time you snap a shot to Instagram, complex computer engineering is at work, behind the...
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Trina Turk: The no-drama fashionista
FORTUNE — Fashion designer Trina Turk held her first show at New York Fashion Week on February 10. Given that she launched her own clothing line in 1995, that’s a relatively long time without having a...
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Crave’s Ti Chang: The rare female designer in adult toys
Crave’s Ti Chang FORTUNE — It’s safe to say, most people don’t want their careers linked to whatever experiences they may have had in a sex shop. But designer Ti Chang doesn’t see why sex toys should...
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How a mega-church founder rediscovered religion
Rob Bell FORTUNE – Most successful religious leaders have also had a solid business mind. All institutions, spiritual or otherwise, need revenue to survive. They must also, argues Rob Bell, meet the...
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Christie’s CEO talks move to China
FORTUNE — For any global CEO looking to the future, two main objectives are coping with the increasingly digital world and expanding into growing markets, namely China. Steven Murphy, the CEO of art...
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Your wardrobe is your professional armor
FORTUNE — Nanette Lepore has a gorgeous showroom in Midtown Manhattan. Unlike many other fashion designers, though, Lepore has her clothes sewn in the area. It’s a cause of hers to revamp New York’s...
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Giving up cushy gigs to save lives in mid-air
Ed Shoemaker (left) and Josh Sparks (right) FORTUNE — Joshua Sparks and Ed Shoemaker postponed their first interview with Fortune because they had to get in a helicopter and save someone’s life. It...
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How a burlesque host keeps the peace
World Famous *BOB* FORTUNE — Beneath the wig and the glitter and the dirty jokes, World Famous *BOB* constantly thinks about management — managing time, the crowd, the pace of a show. *BOB* works as an...
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Lessons from a rogue whiskey distiller
FORTUNE — Prohibition may have ended a while ago, but the long arm of the law still affects small brewers and distillers. In Tennessee, for example, it’s illegal to distill whiskey at home. But...
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NASCAR chief’s corporate dream team
FORTUNE — As the top exec at NASCAR, Brian France has to worry about a lot more than cars whizzing around a track. He works with huge brands that sponsor cars, drivers, and the sport itself, as well...
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Peter Gelb: Bringing opera back from the dead
Interview by Shelley DuBois, writer-reporter Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb FORTUNE — Just about every executive has to deal with conflicting demands, attracting talent, and reaching a...
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Mt. Sinai CEO: How to keep a hospital afloat
Mt. Sinai CEO Kenneth Davis FORTUNE – These are tough times to run a hospital, especially one that doubles as a major research facility. Uncertainty surrounding the future of health care regulation...
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Making a career out of NYC trash
John Doherty, Commissioner of the NYC Department of Sanitation FORTUNE — There’s much more to New York’s trash than meets the eye. Just ask John Doherty, commissioner of the city’s Department of...
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This ain’t a one-time rodeo
Professional Bull Riders CEO Jim Haworth FORTUNE – When it comes to executive experience, this is not Jim Haworth’s first rodeo. The Professional Bull Riders CEO was an executive vice president at...
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How Alvin Ailey keeps dancing
Robert Battle, artistic director at Alvin Ailey FORTUNE — In 1958, in the midst of the civil rights movement, a young African American man originally from Texas formed a multi-racial modern dance...
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The man who makes New York move
FORTUNE — It’s hard to imagine a more difficult leadership problem to tackle than transit logistics in New York and New Jersey. But Patrick Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority of New...
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How the Met Museum plans to get its groove back
FORTUNE – You could probably earn a Ph.D. working with just one piece out of the hundreds of thousands on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art any given day. But it’s bad business if visitors need...
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Meet the mastermind behind the Yankees roster
Love them or hate them, the New York Yankees are one of the most iconic teams in major league baseball. But some of the most important jobs within the franchise are done somewhat under the radar. Take...
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How to get 4,000 people to take off their pants
Charlie Todd FORTUNE — Charlie Todd did the starving actor thing when he first moved to New York at 22 in 2001. On the side, he and his buddies staged pranks in public spaces, trying to make people...
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How NYC parks emerged from their lawless days
NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe FORTUNE — There’s a countdown clock in the room next to Adrian Benepe’s office, ticking off the days until the end of the Bloomberg Administration. When the clock...
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Why Daniel Boulud still lives above his store
Chef Daniel Boulud FORTUNE — Chef Daniel Boulud has a beautiful office. The walls sport pictures of the chef with celebrities, the wooden shelves are full of perfectly spaced awards and trophies, and,...
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An exuberantly sunny Broadway director? Really?
Kristin Hanggi FORTUNE — Not all of us could get a horde of Broadway actors wearing 1980s wigs to do anything worth watching. No, it takes a special kind of talent to be Kristin Hanggi, who directed...
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Meet the New York Liberty’s turnaround point guard
FORTUNE — Cappie Pondexter was the last to leave the court after a summer practice in the Greenburgh, N.Y. gym the New York Liberty shares with the Knicks. Pondexter typically stays after her teammates...
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What biz leaders can learn from astronauts
FORTUNE — The corner office can be a high-pressure environment, but imagine calling the shots in a cramped shuttle in orbit 100 kilometers above the planet. Jeffrey Ashby made some split-second...
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The nail-biting life of an action film director
FORTUNE — Directing a movie requires more than sitting in funny chairs and yelling “action” on a set. Directors need to intelligently discuss finance, set production, and acting all in a day’s work....
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Meet the National Aquarium’s first fish doctor
FORTUNE — It’s tough enough to keep a room of people happy with the office thermostat, imagine catering to the thermal (and all other) needs of 500 different species. Brent Whitaker is responsible for...
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Francis Ford Coppola’s search for the best ending
FORTUNE — Francis Ford Coppola doesn’t care for what he calls “the tyranny of genres.” He’s the man behind the Godfather series and Apocalypse Now. And yet, even as someone whose work has helped define...
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Why crazy ideas are critical: A Nobel-winning chemist’s view
FORTUNE — Nobel-prize winning chemist Roald Hoffmann has had anything but a simple path to success. He was born in Poland, and survived the Nazi labor camps. He came to America at the age of 12,...
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FDNY commissioner looks back on September 11
FORTUNE — Eleven years ago today, Salvatore Cassano was working as the chief of operations for New York City’s Fire Department. His leadership during one of the darkest days in the city’s history...
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How one woman changed New York comedy
FORTUNE — Caroline Hirsch says she reads the credits for lots of films and TV comedies. Usually, she sees the names of people who crossed paths with her at her club. Hirsch owns a New York stand-up...
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A quest: Bringing Halo to the (not so) big screen
FORTUNE – Many of us are watching more videos online these days, but how do you pack all the gore and sexy graphics of a sci-fi action film onto a web-sized screen? That is director Stewart Hendler’s...
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Anne-Marie Slaughter on women, work and Washington
FORTUNE — In what felt like a knockdown, drag out election season, we heard plenty about the problems in Washington and improving the lives of American women. As a foreign policy professor and a woman...
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Behind Seth Green’s stop-motion animation success
Robot Chicken’s Seth Green (left) and animated John Harvatine (right) FORTUNE – The folks behind Cartoon Network’s Robot Chicken care, deeply, about what happens to a Miley Cyrus doll. To make it onto...
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Area man leads coup at The Onion
Will Tracy FORTUNE — “Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show a Hit Among People Who Don’t Know Pornography Exists.” “Oscar Meyer Unveils New Weiner Drone.” The Onion’s headlines are good, very good. The...
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The world according to Karl Rove
FORTUNE — To some, Karl Rove is the heart and soul of the GOP. He has a long history of counseling prominent Republicans. Most memorably, he designed George W. Bush’s successful presidential campaigns...
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Making music out of your mistakes
John Angeles FORTUNE — Imagine managing a room full of people with completely different backgrounds. Now give them trashcan lids to bang while you try to communicate. Now, also, dance. This is a...
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