Editor's note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a favorite story from our archive. Rupert Murdoch looked a sorry sight when he took a pie in the face on July 19 during a parliamentary hearing about the phone hacking scandal at News of the World. But even when he was at the top of his game, there were clues of trouble to come. In 1984, Murdoch told Fortune, "I don't know any MORE
Jul 31, 2011 9:30 AM ET
Our Weekly Read column features Fortune staffers' takes on recently published books about the business world and beyond. We've invited the entire Fortune staff -- from our writers and editors to our photo editors and designers -- to weigh in on books of their choosing based on their individual tastes or curiosities. Each week we feature a different staffer's review. This week, reporter Daniel Roberts reviews Jeff Ryan's Super Mario: MORE
Jul 29, 2011 5:00 AM ETDid CEO Jeff Kindler get pushed out because he was shaking up the dysfunctional pharmaceutical giant -- or because he's an ineffective leader?
By Peter Elkind and Jennifer Reingold with Doris Burke
FORTUNE -- For Jeff Kindler, it was a humiliating moment. The CEO of Pfizer, the world's largest pharmaceutical company, had been summoned to the airport in Fort Myers, Fla., on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010, for a highly unusual purpose: to MORE
Jul 28, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Editor's note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a favorite story from our archive. Who hasn't kicked off a summer trip by shuffling through an airport to catch a cramped, delayed flight?Apparently, air travel conditions in 1946 were gruesome too. The airline industry was struggling to keep up with booming demand, and had just discovered the benefits of overbooking. And a plane seat was, "as perishable a commodity as a fried egg MORE
Jul 24, 2011 9:30 AM ET
Rupert Murdoch's embattled media company is clearly bracing for the possibility of a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prosecution. Two FCPA experts weigh the odds.
By Roger Parloff, senior editor
Only the beginning for Murdoch & Co.?
FORTUNE -- With the U.S. Justice Department, SEC, and FBI having acknowledged that they are all making preliminary inquiries into the News Corp.'s phone-hacking and police-bribery scandal, and with the company having retained one of America's MORE
Jul 22, 2011 1:13 PM ET
Welcome to the Weekly Read, a new column that will feature Fortune staffers' takes on recently published books about the business world and beyond. We've invited the entire Fortune staff -- from our writers and editors to our photo editors and designers -- to weigh in on books of their choosing based on their individual tastes or curiosities. Each week we'll feature a different staffer's review. This week Nina Easton MORE
Jul 22, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Morgan Kenney, 12, at left with Duke, her 18-month-old bull, and Hunter Stites, 10, with Napoleon, also 18 months, at the San Diego County Fair on the Del Mar Fairgrounds on June 29.
FORTUNE -- It's county fair time again. Agricultural groups and local businesses are setting up at America's midways and fairgrounds. Their goal: to celebrate (and profit from) the pastoral pleasures of agro-America -- from livestock shows to MORE
Jul 21, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants delivers top-tier service to its guests, but it gives its employees -- and their pets -- white-glove treatment too.
By Christopher Tkaczyk, reporter
FORTUNE -- To business travelers, Kimpton, the privately owned operator of 55 hotels across the U.S., may be best known for its boutique properties like the Sir Francis Drake in San Francisco and the Epic in Miami. But among its employees, the company is highly MORE
Jul 21, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Add another headache to News Corp.'s unending list of woes: A lawsuit against a former employee could hinge on a simple bit of wording.
By Betsy Feldman, contributor
FORTUNE -- Bill Clinton once said, "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." For News America Marketing, the $1.2 billion newspaper-insert subsidiary of News Corp., it may also depend on the tense of a word. In 2007, News Corp. (NWSA) MORE
Jul 20, 2011 5:00 AM ET
One company has a solution for the world's dwindling lumber supply: Go fishing for forests.
By Brian Dumaine, senior-editor-at-large
Triton Logging's SHARC system removing trees from Lois Lake, British Columbia
FORTUNE -- Our thirst for lumber means that each year we lose a swatch of forest about the size of Delaware. Now Triton Logging, based in Victoria, British Columbia, has figured out a novel way to put a dent in deforestation -- MORE
Jul 19, 2011 5:00 AM ET
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