THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CLAIMED that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make health care better, safer, and cheaper. Ten years and $36 billion later, the system is an unholy mess. Inside a digital revolution gone wrong.

MARK ZUCKERBERG’S DORM-ROOM CREATION is worth half a trillion dollars, has 2.3 billion regular users, and dominates its corner of the online advertising industry because its ads are so effective. Now Facebook is under attack from regulators, competit

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A billionaire disrupter of the French telecom market had a radical idea: Build a computer programming school that has no books, no teachers, and no classes. Oh, and make it free. Six years in, has it worked?

Tesla, General Motors, and Volkswagen are betting big on the world’s largest market for electric vehicles. But the country’s domestic manufacturers, like BJEV, have a huge head start.

Data-savvy scientists like DANIEL COHEN of Pharnext are using ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE to figure out how to turn combinations of existing drugs into promising new therapies. Can they unclog Big Pharma’s drug pipeline?

Recent revelations have subjected consulting giant McKinsey to awkward scrutiny. Its leader describes what could change at the influential and secretive firm.

Simplehuman, the high-end housewares maker, takes product testing very seriously. The obsession appears to be paying off.

The cloud-computing boom has seeded a crop of fast-growing companies that cater to software coders. How investors can profit from the pursuit of API-ness.

BY NOW YOU’VE seen the ads. A trim young professional is riding an exercise bike in a perfectly appointed high-rise apartment, his face lit by the glow of a tablet in front of him. You can’t hear the instructor on the screen, but you can imagine the

Nearly every Democrat running for President supports a version of universal health care. That has the private insurance industry on edge.

THE INJURY SUSTAINED by Duke University basketball star Zion Williamson—after his Nike shoe ripped apart on the court—renewed the debate over whether elite student athletes should risk their bodies playing in college when they stand to make substanti

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The Detroit Bus Co. could be a model for fixing the gaps in our cities’ crumbling transit systems.

AS A CEO SUMMONED to Capitol Hill to face angry lawmakers, selecting your outfit—and therefore the silent message you’ll telegraph on camera—is far from trivial. Safe choices might include the Navy Blazer of Contrition or the dove-gray skirt suit tha

Design-driven thinking has changed the way companies develop their products and reach their customers. Can it help them take on society’s biggest challenges?

Even as retailers grow multinational in scope, the way people pay for things differs radically from country to country.

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Howard Schultz appears to have dramatically misread America’s appetite for sending a coffee mogul to the Oval Office. Is the backlash specific to one billionaire exec’s hubris—or have we lost our taste for CEO candidates once and for all?

D.C.’s bitter partisans can agree on at least one thing: The big tech companies need reining in.

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THE JAPANESE TRADITION of bathing in onsens, or natural hot springs, dates back to the sixth century, but not everyone’s able to jump right in. After interviewing dozens of international tourists, Hoshino Resorts, one of Japan’s leading hospitality c

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A child prodigy, an immigrant, and a serial entrepreneur—Amir Husain is using his empathy to build the future of computing.