“I think we’ve outgrown full-time education … Time to test our talents in the real world, d’you reckon?” — Fred Weasley, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 29, “Careers Advice”
Business
How Hyrox grew into a global fitness-racing business. (CNBC video) Moritz Fürste and Christian Toetzke created a standardised sporting experience, work with gyms and local communities as trusted distribution partners, and built a category around competition, achievement and joy.
Business
When growth is not the same as scale, and how managerial judgement turns expansion into leverage rather than complexity.
Business
The famous story that NASA spent millions inventing a pen for space is largely a myth. Yet the underlying lesson may still hold. The engineering problem was real and solved, but the initial market for that solution turned out to be surprisingly small.
Business
Businesses can often be understood through four questions: what job is being solved, how customers discover it, how reliably it is delivered, and what might eventually replace it.
History
From a Roman shop sign in Herculaneum to a modern photograph