Sandy Weill: The Travelers chairman is happy (Fortune, 1997)

Sandy Weill is best known for building Citigroup into the "too big to fail" banking institution it was when the financial crisis began in 2007. In the late 1990s, he pushed to overturn the Glass-Steagall Act, which made it impossible for investment banking, commercial banking, and insurance services to be combined under one company. Weill has been mostly quiet since he left the bank in 2006, but last week he MORE

Life in the Olympic cauldron from the producer's seat

Producers at NBC have been waiting for this day for years. No matter how much they prepared for it, only their adrenaline can help them react to the inevitable, unexpected events.

By Douglas Alden Warshaw

FORTUNE -- As the Olympic flame is carried closer and closer to its 17-day perch inside the cauldron at London's Olympic Stadium -- "cauldron," what a great word, with its echo of medieval castles, kings, magic and MORE

A novel take on the financial crisis

Fiction is sometimes better than fact. A review of A Fatal Debt, John Gapper's novelization of the fall of Wall Street.

By Katie Benner, writer

FORTUNE -- Few real-life events have produced as many villains, intriguing plot twists, and surprise endings as the recent financial crisis. But most of the non-fiction books on the topic have been dry, jargon-y tomes that read like McKinsey case studies and only hint at the MORE

Ford's delicate recall dance

No automaker wants to repeat Toyota's disastrous mistakes. With its most important launch in years coming up, Ford certainly can't afford to.

By Doron Levin, contributor

FORTUNE -- The 2013 Escape sport-utility vehicle, a rookie in Ford Motor Co.'s product lineup, stumbled in the starting blocks last week as the automaker ordered owners of the model to park their new cars immediately to avert the danger of a fire.

The design flaw leading MORE