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The Resurrection of One World Trade Douglas Durst said the tower shouldn't be built. He's now a big reason it's rising over Ground Zero. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why the Debt Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think If Washington is deadlocked now, how will it deal with the much bigger debt problems that lurk in the decades to come? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cyber War Has Begun The Pentagon's been hacked. Sony, Citigroup, Google -- all are victims of debilitating online attacks. It's war out there, and a scary new cyberweapons industry is exploding to arm the combatants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Murdoch's Rotten Tabloids Even after dropping his pay-TV ambitions, Rupert Murdoch's defiance makes his troubles worse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website She's With the Government -- and Here to Help Elizabeth Warren has infuriated bankers and alienated half of Washington, all in the name of a new consumer protection agency she may not get to run. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transocean: No Apologies From the day its Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, Transocean has denied wrongdoing, deflected blame, and paid dividends, not cleanup costs. So far, its hardball strategy is working. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transocean: No Apologies From the day its Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, Transocean has denied wrongdoing, deflected blame, and paid dividends, not cleanup costs. So far, its hardball strategy is working. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Myspace's Spectacular Downfall How the social network went from one of the most popular websites on earth -- which promised to redefine pop culture -- to an afterthought. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fake Pot, Real Profits The drugs are fake. The highs are real. And the money is huge. From "incense" to "bath salts," synthetic drugs are semi-legal--for now. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Kick-Start the U.S. Economy Here are nine innovative ideas from around the world -- from Turkey to Brazil and Thailand to Israel -- to restart growth in America Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nokia's Epic Fail Market share dwindling, stock cratering, persistent takeover talk. How Stephen Elop is trying to lead Nokia past its epic fail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The End of Mail The U.S. Postal Service is as old as the country, delivers 40 percent of the world's mail, and may be the world's greatest bargain. Unfortunately, it's also on the verge of collapse Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shattered The former McKinsey head may be unindicted, but he won't escape the taint of insider trading. Why did he risk so much for so little? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Everybody Needs a Sheryl Sandberg Blooomberg Businessweek senior writer Brad Stone discusses what Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg brings to the social network. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Osama Bin Laden Lost Al Qaeda's leader offered no relief to the poverty, oppression, and lack of opportunity that beset the Middle East Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 'I'm Very Serious' Donald Trump may or may not run for the White House, but the real estate magnate and reality TV star has already reached his preferred destination: the center of attention. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One family. One business. One town. On Mar. 11, this city on Japan's northern coast, home to the world's biggest breakwater, had its third brush with extinction. Here's how it survived Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don't Play Play Chicken With the Debt Ceiling If Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling, the U.S. begins defaulting - and all hell breaks loose. But that won't stop the brinkmanship. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Pay No Taxes Eleven shelters, dodges, and maneuvers - all perfectly legal - used by America's wealthiest people Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ouch! Johnson & Johnson's Bitter Pills After 50-plus recalls in 15 months - artificial hips, Motrin, Rolaids, Tylenol, Zyrtec - the $60 billion company is fighting for its reputation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building a Better Reactor A new generation of nuclear plants is designed to withstand a Fukushima-style crisis. A few are already being built. Will Japan derail the renaissance? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crisis in Japan Japan faces unprecedented times. But even amid radiation and rubble, it is not hopeless. Plus: America needs an honest debate over nuclear power Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Donziger: Jungle Justice Steven Donziger won an $18 billion verdict against Chevron. But is he clean enough to collect it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Put Your Head in the Cloud World-class business technology used to require millions of dollars and months of installation. Now all you need is a couple days and an Amazon gift card. How cloud computing finally lived up to its hype Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website USA Inc.: Red, White, and Very Blue By viewing the nation as a corporation, tech analyst Mary Meeker highlights some smart ways to shore up its battered - but fixable - bottom line Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hungry for a Solution A plunge in the global food supply and climbing prices raise unsettling questions: Can mankind feed itself? Can rich nations forgo profits? And will climate change ever be addressed head on? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Infidelity Economy Looking to sneak around on your spouse? Got a little cash to spend? The CEO of Ashley Madison, a website whose own backers don't even want to be associated with, is happy to take your money Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Infidelity Economy Looking to sneak around on your spouse? Got a little cash to spend? The CEO of Ashley Madison, a website whose own backers don't even want to be associated with, is happy to take your money Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Youth Unemployment: The Kids Are Not Alright From Cairo to London to Brooklyn, hordes of youths are jobless and frustrated. Here's a look inside the global effort to put the next generation to work Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Way: Larry Page on Google 3.0 For a peek at Google under its new CEO, Larry Page, Bloomberg Businessweek hung out with six product leaders eager to reinvent the world's home page Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apple Without Jobs The company will prosper even if Steve Jobs doesn't return. Keeping the revolutionary edge will be harder. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Killing Machine How Glock became the weapon of choice for U.S. cops, gun enthusiasts, and mass killers like alleged Tucson gunman Jared Loughner Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Afghanistan: Land of Opportunity To survive, Afghanistan needs foreign investment. Can a Defense Dept. task force persuade American businesses to jump in? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloomberg Businessweek Year in Review 365 days, 61 charts, 289 pictures, 7 essays: the business year in perspective Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bloomberg Businessweek Year in Review 365 days, 61 charts, 289 pictures, 7 essays: the business year in perspective Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Larry Fink: BlackRock's Brain Bestride the bond and equity markets, counseling the Treasury and the Fed, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is the most influential man you've never heard of. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who Loves Ya, Baby? Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke kept the U.S. out of a depression. But the Fed's latest moves have set off fierce attacks. Here's how the pair is fighting back Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Great Copper Heist Thieves are tearing up the country's infrastructure to get at its valuable copper. Dallas' metal theft squad is showing other cities how to stop them Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ireland Underwater Ireland, once the economic superstar of Europe, may be going the way of Greece Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Baidu: Be Evil Robin Li banged heads to beat Google and make his search engine China's No. 1. His next target: the world. First, he'll have to win Web users' trust Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obama's Tormentor If U.S. Chamber of Commerce chief Tom Donohue has his way, the President's change agenda is finished Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coca-Cola's Last Round The developed world just can't drink more Coke. India and China are crowded with competitors. That leaves one great unquenched thirst: Africa Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shredding the American Dream The foreclosure crisis isn't just about lost documents. It's about trust---and a clash over who gets stuck with $1.1 trillion in losses Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Devil You Don't Know Sarah Palin says the movement's principles are "exactly what we need for free enterprise." Executives, who prize stability, aren't so sure Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Amazon Fears Most Why does Diapers.com---which will sell 500 million nappies this year---worry Amazon? Its narrow focus creates efficiencies the Web giant can't match Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best Merger Ever Twenty years after reunification, Germany is the wheelhouse of Europe, driving regional growth, safeguarding stability, and often footing the bills Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Facebook Sells You How Facebook plans to use its 550 million users to build the greatest advertising juggernaut since ... O.K., only since Google, but that's still huge Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Fix the Economy Bloomberg Businessweek gave four top economists and one prominent money manager a tough assignment: Fix the U.S. economy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside China's Foxconn Massive, secretive, and hit by a rash of worker suicides, the Chinese manufacturer of iPhones, PCs, and PlayStations opens up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Property of China China is buying Australia's resources as fast as it can, making Australians rich-and nervous. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Gold Digger As gold becomes a fashionable hedge against turbulent times, one billionaire is doing everything he can to get his hands on the actual stuff Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Popularity Issue, Part 2 Ken Prewitt and Pimm Fox talk with Bloomberg Businessweek editors about last week's cover story, "The Popularity Issue." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Popularity Issue The food we eat, the sneakers we wear, the churches we visit, the colors of the cars we drive. Not the coolest or best---just the ubiquitous, omnipresent No. 1s Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bush Tax Cuts Despite terrifying deficits, most economists now say the U.S. is too weak to let former President George W. Bush's tax cuts expire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New Abnormal Americans are broke and depressed -- and also swilling $3 lattes and waiting on line for iPhones. Welcome to the schizophrenic economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amber Waves of Pain Commodity ETFs are supposed to offer a hedge against equity losses. Instead, they've turned into a pitfall for unsuspecting investors Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Gates, Teachers' Pest Pimm Fox talks with Bloomberg Businessweek's Deputy Editor Eric Pooley about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation betting billions that a business approach can work wonders in the classroom. And that where the carrot doesn't work, the stick will. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lost Summer Pimm Fox and Ken Prewitt talks with Bloomberg Businessweek's Deputy Editor Eric Pooley about problems that businesses are facing in the beach towns and bayous along the Gulf of Mexico's U.S. coastline. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Make An American Job Ken Prewitt and Pimm Fox talk with Jim Aley of Bloomberg News about former Intel CEO Andy Grove's views on U.S. job creation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life Amid the Ruins Ken Prewitt and Pimm Fox talk with Bloomberg Businessweek editor Sheelah Kolhatkar about the country's economic shambles, the biggest bailout in EU history, and sweeping government reforms that have shocked Greece Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bloomberg Businessweek 50 From the Internet's Priceline.com to the railroads' Union Pacific, our 14th annual list of top performers shows that innovation remains the engine of success. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lessons from the Biggest Bears Ken Prewitt and Pimm Fox talk with Bloomberg Businessweek's Jessica Silver-Greenberg about the bearish forecasters who rose to fame in the market crash of 2008 and who have, for the most part, not surrendered their pessimism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Engulfed Pimm Fox and Roben Farzad talk with Bloomberg Businessweek's Paul Barrett about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the affect it may have on BP and the U.S. presidency. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Schwab Worries About Small Investors Ken Prewitt and Pimm Fox talk with Bloomberg Businessweek's Deputy Editor Eric Pooley about the challenges Charles Schwab faces with his small investor clients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Come Together Ken Prewitt and Pimm Fox talk with Bloomberg Businessweek's Economics Editor Peter Coy and Editor Josh Tyrangiel about the decline of the euro. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Big Bounce Ken Prewitt and Pimm Fox talk with Bloomberg's Senior Writer and Editor Ken Wells, about the impact the 2010 World Cup soccer championship will have on South Africa Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lessons of the BP Oil Spill Jim Ellis talks with Peter Coy, Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Economics Editor, about the impact that BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill will have on oil exploration and federal energy policy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can Ed Whitacre Save GM From Itself? Jim Ellis talks with David Welch, Bloomberg Busineweek's auto writer in Detroit, about how new CEO Ed Whitacre is rapidly transforming the struggling automaker Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Goldman on the Hot Seat Jim Ellis talks with Eric Pooley, Bloomberg BusinessWeek's deputy editor, about how the Congressional inquiry into Goldman Sachs' mortgage bond dealings could affect financial reform Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is GE Losing Its Leadership Spark? Jim Ellis talks with Diane Brady, Bloomberg BusinessWeek's senior editor, about how long-revered General Electric is overhauling the way it develops future managers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Obamanomics Is Working Jim Ellis talks with Peter Coy, Bloomberg BusinessWeek's economics editor, about why President Barack Obama's economic plan is working and why it needs more stimulus spending. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website China's Tough Line on Foreign Business Jim Ellis talks with Eric Pooley, Bloomberg BusinessWeek's deputy editor, about China's increasingly chilly reception to foreign businesses that want to profit from the Asian giant's fast growth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Real Future of Television Jim Ellis talks with Ron Grover, Bloomberg BusinessWeek's entertainment industry correspondent, about cable operators' plans to charge for online video Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The $618,616 Death Jim Ellis talks with Amanda Bennett, Bloomberg News executive editor, about her husband's costly seven-year battle with cancer. Despite a cost of $618,616, it's uncertain how much the medical care prolonged his life Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When Warren Buffett Is Your Boss Jim Ellis talks with Alice Schroeder, author of The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, about how the super-investor oversees the CEOs of companies in which he invests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Angela Merkel defends Euro-unity Jim Ellis talks with Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Peter Coy about this week's cover story on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her tough crusade to maintain Europe's financial unity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barack Obama's Message for Business Jim Ellis talks with Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Josh Tyrangiel about this week's cover-story interview with President Barack Obama. Obama explains why he's not anti-business, and his aid for corporate America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AT&T's iPhone Problem Jim Ellis talks with Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Roben Farzad about this week's cover story on how the success of the Apple iPhone is causing massive network problems for AT&T. Growing smartphone use means this problem could spread industrywide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website King of the World, Again Assistant Managing Editor Jim Ellis talks to Media Editor Tom Lowry about the magazine's cover story chronicling how Avatar director James Cameron became the most powerful commercial force in the movie business--twice. The film has already brought in $1.6 billion at the box office, and is well on its way to being the biggest selling motion picture of all time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apple Vs. Google (Corrects interview elements that were originally presented out of order.) Jim Ellis talks with Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Peter Burrows about this week's cover story and how the battle between Silicon Valley superstars Apple and Google is heating up Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Disposable Worker Jim Ellis talks with Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Peter Coy about this week's cover story on the dramatic growth of temporary and contract workers. That change in the nature of work will affect not only employees themselves, but also the economy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Not So Radical Reform Jim Ellis talks with BusinessWeek's Adrienne Carter about this week's cover story on the prospects for passage of financial regulation reform in Congress. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Investment Outlook 2010 Senior Editor Suzanne Woolley, who edited the cover package, and Economics Editor Peter Coy discuss investing ideas with Assistant Managing Editor Jim Ellis. One big theme: going global Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts Jim Ellis of Bloomberg BusinessWeek talks to Emily Thornton, the writer of this weeks Cover story on how Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts is remaking itself into a thoroughly modern example of what private equity should be. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Dubai Matters John A. Byrne talks with BusinessWeek's Stanley Reed about this week's cover story on the fallout from Dubai Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Look Who's Stalking Wal-Mart Target is increasingly going downmarket to get through the consumer recession. Can it ape its rival and still retain its cachet? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New Threat from Wall Street BusinessWeek's Ben Levisohn and Jessica Silver-Greenberg say that taxpayers are taking another hit as strapped local governments fork over billions in fees on investments gone bad Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Wait for Health Reform? BusinessWeek's Catherine Arnst tells John A. Byrne that health reform needs a broader and more ambitious effort than what Washington proposes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why This Bust Is Different BusinessWeek's Mara Der Hovanesian says that unrealistic assumptions, layers of investors, sky-high prices, and possible fraud will make it hard to clean up the mess in commercial real estate Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The GDP Mirage BusinessWeek's Mike Mandel on how the most comprehensive gauge of U.S. economic activity is broken. By overlooking cuts in R&D, design, and other critical factors, the GDP greatly overstates the economy's strength. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Apps Economy BusinessWeek's Doug MacMillan says goofy games get most of the hype and make a lot of money--but there's much more to this surging software market Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hard Sell to Consumers BusinessWeek's Jena McGregor tells Executive Editor John A. Byrne about how retailers are battling consumers' recent reluctance to spend head-on Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lost Generation People in their teens and 20s have some of the highest unemployment rates in the U.S. and around the world. This is leading to fear of a lost generation. BusinessWeek's Peter Coy explains. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website America's High-Tech Sweatshops BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Steve Hamm on how U.S. companies may contribute unwittingly to the exploitation of foreign workers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New Normal Investing gauges are broken, market signals are mixed, and money managers don't know where to turn. Is this the new normal? BusinessWeek's Adtrenne Carter and Roben Farzad discuss whether it's time to say good-bye to the Bull. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 100 Best Global Brands BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Burt Helm on how the best-known brand names in the world have fared after almost 18 months of recession Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glock's Secret Path to Profits Glock is the largest supplier of handguns to law enforcement in the U.S. BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne interviews Paul Barrett about the BusinessWeek investigation into the allegations surrounding the company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Best Places to Launch a Career BusinessWeek Executive Editor John A. Byrne talks with Staff Editor Lindsey Gerdes about BW's fourth annual ranking of the best places to launch a career Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Radical Future of R&D BusinessWeek's Steve Hamm tells John A. Byrne that the research of tomorrow won't be limited by national boundaries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Case for Optimism BusinessWeek's Chief Economist Michael Mandel discusses the case for optimism in the face of this recession and the possibilities for those who do Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Health Reform BW's Chad Terhune says that because of the industry's behind-the-scenes maneuvering in Washington, insurance giants such as UnitedHealth, Aetna, and WellPoint are likely to emerge from the health-care reform battle more profitable than ever Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obama and Business BusinessWeek's Jane Sasseen tells John A. Byrne why, six months into his term, the President inspires fear, anger--and hope--among CEOs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Shrinking Boomer Economy BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and David Welch on how companies are rethinking their businesses as the biggest spenders in history dial back Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website China Goes Shopping BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Tiff Roberts on what's behind China's shopping spree Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rethinking Retirement BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne talks with Suzanne Woolley about the scope of BusinessWeek's 2009 Annual Retirement Guide Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Microsoft Defends Its Empire BusinessWeek's Peter Burrows tells Tom Giles how Microsoft is trying to adapt by moving to Web-based subscription services as users shift from PCs to handheld devices Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Housing Market 2012 BusinessWeek's Adrienne Carter tells John Byrne that home prices may keep falling for the next year, then stabilize and rebound with the economy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Risk-Takers BusinessWeek's Kerry Capell and Joseph Weber on how smart companies--from Novartis to Procter & Gamble--are turning up the heat in the downturn Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation, Interrupted BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne talks with Mike Mandel about America's failure to capitalize on innovation hurt the economy--and what happens next. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Xerox: An Historic Succession BusinessWeek's Nanette Byrnes tells John A. Byrne that Ursula Burns will be the first African American woman to lead a major U.S. corporation--but she'll take over a still-troubled business Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's a Friend Worth? BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Stephen Baker talk about our digital relationships, and how companies are trying to profit from them Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How the Mighty Fall BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and business guru Jim Collins talk about his new book, How the Mighty Fall, in which he pinpoints the insidious (and often invisible) problems that send great companies crashing to earth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Private Equity: Testing the Waters BusinessWeek's Peter Carbonara and Jessica Silver-Greenberg talk with John A. Byrne about why private equity firms are cranking up their dealmaking, and how they will pump capital into the markets Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Help Wanted BusinessWeek's Peter Coy tells Executive Editor John A. Byrne why the nation has 3 million jobs going begging. And without retraining, U.S. workers may not be able to fill them Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Philip Morris Unbound BusinessWeek's John A. Byrnes and Nanette Byrnes talk about Philip Morris' global strategy to find the next generation of smokers before restrictions spread Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Good are Economists Anyway? Economists mostly failed to predict the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Now, they can't agree how to solve it. People are starting to wonder whether they can really help Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mexico's Promise BusinessWeek's Pete Engardio tells Executive Editor John A. Byrne that Mexico has the chance to emerge as a strong challenger to India and China if its best-managed states become top destinations for both low-cost production and design Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Signs of Life in Housing BusinessWeek's Adrienne Carter and Mara Der Hovanesian discuss how low prices and tax breaks are luring buyers to ravaged housing markets like Las Vegas and the Florida coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The BusinessWeek 50 From 3D software designer Autodesk to steelmaker Nucor, our 13th annual list of top performers shows that innovation remains the engine of success Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Game-Changing Management Ideas for Business The economic crisis demands new thinking. Smart leaders are gleaning insights from emerging markets, social networks, and their suppliers. BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Jena McGregor discuss new strategies companies are using to cope with the slowdown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Waiting for the Bull to Return BusinessWeek Finance Editor Adrienne Carter and Senior Writer David Henry say all signs point to more pain ahead. Still, there are opportunities for very long-term investors Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's Dragging Europe Down The Continent may have avoided the subprime loan mess, but now it's struggling to prop up its subprime countries, according to BusinessWeek Executive Editor John A. Byrne and Bureau Chief Jack Ewing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When Service Means Survival BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Jena McGregor discuss how companies are handling customer service during the recession. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Home Wreckers BusinessWeek Executive Editor John A. Byrne and Senior Writer Brian Grow discuss how the banking industry has been actively undermining efforts to keep people in their houses Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Danger Ahead ExxonMobil, the king of Big Oil, has an out-of-date strategy as its reserves shrink and its rivals look to the future. BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne interviews Steve LeVine on his story Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Could Google Fix Detroit? BusinessWeek's Executive Editor John A. Byrne and What Would Google Do? author Jeff Jarvis on how the search giant could teach automakers about reconnecting with their customers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting Down to Business BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne talks to Jane Sasseen about Barack Obama's inauguration, the new power players, the upcoming business battles, and the stimulus wish-list Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Managing Through a Crisis BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Emily Thornton discuss the challenges and opportunities managers face in times of turmoil like these. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Silicon Valley Losing Its Magic? BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Steve Hamm discuss whether Silicon Valley still has its mojo, or will risk aversion and myopia kill the golden goose? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Investment Outlook BusinessWeek's Executive Editor John A. Byrne and Senior Editor Suzanne Woolley discuss investing strategies for 2009, including ways to keep your money safe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is the Panic Justified? BusinessWeek's Peter Coy spoke with the best minds on Wall Street and in academia, labor, and corporate America to ask: How bad might the job market get, and how long might it last? Executive Editor John A. Byrne discusses the findings with Peter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Safe Is India? In the wake of the Mumbai siege, BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Manjeet Kripalani asses how political violence threatens the Indian miracle Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can Obama Keep New Jobs at Home? BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Mike Mandel discuss how fiscal stimulus could wind up creating jobs offshore as money is spent on imports Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Subprime Wolves Are Back BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Chad Terhune say the new game is FHA-backed loans, and it could end up costing taxpayers tons more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Best B-Schools BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne, Alison Damast, and Geoff Gloeckler talk about how the financial downturn is affecting B-schools and how the "Millennials" are changing them Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Changes Business Wants BusinessWeek Executive Editor John A. Byrne and Washington Bureau Chief Jane Sasseen talk about what the different business sectors say they need from the Obama Administration Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website America Needs an Economic Strategy BW's John A. Byrne and Harvard Business School Professor Michael E. Porter discuss Porter's prescription for improving the long-term economic health of the U.S. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Risk & Reward BW's John A. Byrne and Lauren Young discuss a game plan to survive the financial storm, including tips for managing, investing, borrowing, buying, and working. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Government's New Financial Role BusinessWeek's Executive Editor John Byrne talks with Pete Engardio about his cover story on how the global financial crisis is reshaping the role of government in the economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New Frugality America's charge-it-all culture is getting an overdue reality check. Now, those in the land of overconsumption see the need to rein in spending at home. BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Steve Hamm take a look at the new age of frugality in America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website U.S. Debt and Financial Crisis BusinessWeek Chief Economist Michael Mandel on how the $3 trillion borrowed by the U.S. to finance its trade deficit has led to the financial crisis and what could be done about it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where to Stash Your Money BusinessWeek's Chris Power and Suzanne Woolley discuss the steps--other than stashing your cash under the mattress--you should take now to help your portfolio Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is It Safe Yet? BusinessWeek editors John A. Byrne, Paul Barrett, and Adrienne Carter on BW's Special Report on the Wall Street financial crisis, with analysis of the protagonists of this historic event. 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Byrne, talks with Senior Correspondent David Kiley about how the company that practically invented the SUV will persuade consumers to buy its passenger cars Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pricey Gas: The Upside BusinessWeek's John Carey says high gas prices are a wake-up call, alerting consumers to stop hogging fuel. While researching his story, he discovered how tricky it is to invest in oil and how a gas tax could be used to stabilize consumption Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Credit Crunch: Help! What a witch's brew for the economy: Bad loans, shrinking credit, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in turmoil, flagging investor confidence. BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne, Peter Coy, and David Henry discuss where this mess in heading Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reirement Strategies for Tough Times BusinessWeek's Suzanne Woolley tells John A. 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Now, the Net may be turning against its maker. BusinessWeek uncovers startling instances of cyber-spies targeting the government. BusinessWeek's John Byrne talks with writers Brian Grow and Keith Epstein Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Buyout to Bust BusinessWeek executive editor, John Byrne, and senior writer, Emily Thornton, take us inside private equity's ugliest deal Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The BusinessWeek 50 BusinessWeek's Executive Editor John Byrne and Atlanta Bureau Chief Dean Foust discuss the best performers of 2008 that made our annual list Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reluctant Revolutionary BusinessWeek's John Byrne and Michael Mandel discuss Fed Chairman Bernanke's new mandate, the damage on Wall Street, and the downside of a reeling dollar in Europe. 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But that doesn't mean they'll bail out the U.S. economy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Consumer Vigilantes BusinessWeek’s Mary Kuntz and Jena McGregor talk about customer-service slip-ups that can drive today’s digitally empowered consumers to trample a brand’s name across the Internet Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building the Perfect Laptop Lenovo devoted 20 months to its superslim ThinkPad X300, seeking to create the ideal combination of features, price, and weight. BW's Peter Elstrom and Steve Hamm discuss whether it will be the "halo" product the company needs to hoist itself into tech's top ranks Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Credit on the Edge BusinessWeek’s John Byrne and Adrianne Carter talk about how the mantra “never underestimate the spending of the American consumer” may no longer apply Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Oil Energy companies have been at the center of the firestorm over pump prices, record profits, and CEO pay. In this week's podcast, BusinessWeek's John Byrne and London Bureau chief Stanley Reed discuss how even as the world consumes oil at more than twice the rate of development and discovery, the giants are becoming increasing vulnerable Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Meltdown Home prices could fall an additional 25%, on average, before bottoming out. BusinessWeek's Peter Coy says such a drop would be unprecedented and could spell big trouble for the U.S. economy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Market Reckoning Massive bank writedowns, turbulence in global markets, stubbornly high oil prices, talk of a U.S. recession. BW's John Byrne and Michael Mandel tell us what the message is in the turmoil for business and for you--as a consumer, an investor, and a taxpayer Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lipitor: Does It Make a Difference? Cholesterol fighters are used by 25 million patients worldwide, but new research suggests their benefits are being oversold—and calls into question the whole idea of monitoring LDL. BW’s John Byrne and Jim Carey discuss the implications Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love the Boomers BW's John Byrne and David Kiley talk about what makes aging baby boomers -- many of whom still have kids at home -- valuable consumers to advertisers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Youthquake BusinessWeek's John Byrne and BusinessWeek's John Byrne and Michelle Conlin talk about how the Facebook generation--worried about jobs, health insurance, and credit-card debt--is forcing candidates to pay attention Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dirty Deeds BusinessWeek’s John Byrne and Michael Orey on what happens when even the banks walk away from foreclosures Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where to Invest Falling earnings, overpriced bonds, housing on the skids, it’s hard to find a safe place for your assets. BW economics editor, Peter Coy, discusses investment options for the coming year Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Google's Next Big Dream They call it cloud computing. The idea is to deliver incredible processing power to students, researchers, and entrepreneurs—while expanding Google’s footprint well beyond search, media, and advertising Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Future Seed When the "Frankenfood" frenzy was at its peak, Monsanto stood firm. Now most processed foods in the U.S. use genetically modified crops, and farmers around the world plant them Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can Greed Save Africa? BusinessWeek’s Executive Editor, John Byrne, and Senior Writer Roben Farzad talk about how where foreign aid and philanthropy largely have failed to work, intrepid investing just might Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fresh Pain for the Uninsured BW’s Executive Editor John Byrne and Correspondent Brian Grow dicuss how GE and Citi, plus smaller rivals, have jumped into the lucrative business of financing medical care. Providers get quick payment, financiers profit—and patients can be left with crippling debt Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Consumer Crunch BusinessWeek’s Executive Editor John Byrne and Chief Economist Mike Mandel say that after a 25-year spree, U.S. households can no longer count on easy credit. 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With BW.com Executive Editor John Byrne and Tech Correspondent Cliff Edwards Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prisoners of Debt BusinessWeek's John Byrne and Emily Thornton say that for CEOs of private-equity-owned companies, the pressure to deliver is getting unbearably intense Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Perform or Perish BusinessWeek's John Byrne and Emily Thornton say that for CEOs of private-equity-owned companies, the pressure to deliver is getting unbearably intense Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Little Green Lies BusinessWeek’s John Byrne and Ben Elgin on what made leading corporate sustainability advocate Auden Schendler change his tune about the profitability of environmentally friendly companies Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bear’s Hocus Pocus BusinessWeek's John Byrne, David Henry, and Adrienne Carter on how two Bear Stearns hedge funds soared and then imploded, helping set off a global credit market meltdown Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website That Sinking Feeling BusinessWeek's Executive Editor John Byrne and Banking Editor Mara Der Hovanesian answer the big question: Will this shock treatment help hasten the end of the painful downturn? 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BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne talks with Staff Editor Lindsey Gerdes about this week's cover story Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crunch Time: Reshaping Private Equity BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne talks with Senior Writer Emily Thornton about how, with Wall Street watching, Clayton Dubilier salvaged the Home Depot buyout--and showed how other big deals in the works can go forward Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fear & Loathing at the Airport Long lines, late flights, near collisions... Air travel is a mess, and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it—not even the FAA. BusinessWeek’s Executive Editor John Byrne and Correspondent Keith Epstein talk about the story behind this week’s cover story Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Not So Smart The best and brightest have been humbled in the late summer’s brutal credit crunch: KKR Financial. Blackstone. Goldman Sachs, the black-box quant funds. BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne and Wall Street writer Roben Farzad talk about how we got here Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Work BusinessWeek.com's editor-in-chief, John Byrne, talks with chief economist Michael Mandel about how we will master technology, manage companies, and build careers in the world of tomorrow Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bonfire of the Builders BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne and Banking Editor Mara Der Hovanesian discuss how by rushing into the mortgage business big-time, homebuilders helped fuel the housing crisis. Now they’re hurting—and so is Wall Street Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pet Economy BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne and Senior Writer Diane Brady talk about how the rising status of pets has started an unprecedented wave of entrepreneurship in an industry that was once epitomized by felt mice and rubber balls Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Death Bonds BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne and Senior Writer Matthew Goldstein talk about a new investment scheme: profiting from mortality. Investors buy up life insurance policies, securitize them, and collect when the insured persons die Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can China Be Fixed? Beijing can’t clean up the environment or rein in stock speculation. BusinessWeek's executive editor, John Byrne, and senior international editor, Peter Engardio, discuss how the mainland’s problems could keep it from becoming the next superpower Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "I'm Outta Here!" BusinessWeek's John Byrne Executive Editor John Byrne and Senior Editor Jeff Laderman talk about BusinessWeek's annual retirement guide. Learn about how to retire early, get advice on investments, health care, and insurance so you can step off the treadmill Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Children of the Web BusinessWeek's John Byrne and Steve Hamm discuss how the second-generation Internet is spawning a global youth culture--and what business can do to cash in Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Telecom: Back from the Dead BusinessWeek’s Executive Editor John Byrne and Computer Dept. Editor Spencer Ante talk about how even as the industry lost $2 trillion in market cap as the century began, the flow of YouTube videos and MySpace pages is reviving it—and invigorating the economy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 3M’s Innovation Crisis BusinessWeek's John Byrne and Brian Hindo discuss whether George Buckley can turn the birthplace of masking tape and Post-it notes into an invention machine again. The 3M CEO is dialing back many of the Six Sigma efficiency initiatives that delivered discipline and heady profits but stifled the company’s vaunted culture of creativity Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hot Growth BW Executive Editor John Byrne and Associate Editor Suzanne Woolley talk about the 100 best companies to watch featured in this week’s Hot Growth: The Shock of the Old. This year, shiny tech upstarts defer to adaptable Rust Belt and other old-line stalwarts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Real Cost of Offshoring BusinessWeek's John Byrne and Brian Hindo discuss whether George Buckley can turn the birthplace of masking tape and Post-it notes into an invention machine again. The 3M CEO is dialing back many of the Six Sigma efficiency initiatives that delivered discipline and heady profits but stifled the company’s vaunted culture of creativity Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The World’s Most Extreme Emerging Market BusinessWeek's John Byrne and Roben Farzad talk about extreme, or frontier, developing markets: third-choice, (often) Third World destinations that have enough geopolitical danger about them and barriers to investment to keep mainstreamers away -- but that are also churning out the kinds of enormous gains that counter that taboo Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Poverty Business BusinessWeek's John Byrne, Brian Grow and Keith Epstein on how the working poor have greater access to credit—and a greater risk of being lured into an inescapable web of debt. They take you inside U.S. companies’ audacious drive to extract more profits from low-income consumers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crazy Like a Fox BusinessWeek's executive managing editor, John Byrne, senior writer Tom Lowry, and media columnist Jon Fine ponder the question: What was Rupert Murdoch thinking when he offered $60 a share for the owner of The Wall Street Journal. Among the many reasons: Personal power and digital dominance Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World's Most Innovative Companies BusinessWeek's executive managing editor, John Byrne talks with associate editor Jena McGregor about how the leaders of companies on this year's BusinessWeek-BCG list of the World's Most Innovative Companies recognize that developing breakthrough products, revamping operational processes, and coming up with new business models doesn't happen overnight. Instead of relying on gimmicks or incremental line extensions, they're working to build organizations that are capable of sustained innovati ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roads to Riches BW Executive Editor John Byrne and Equities Editor Emily Thornton talk about how banks and private investment firms are rushing to buy control of highways, bridges, and airports. And cash-strapped state and local authorities are eager to sell. In the next two years, $100 billion in public property could go private. Here's why the public should be worried Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wal-Mart’s Midlife Crisis Business Week Executive Editor John Byrne and National Correspondent Anthony Bianco talk about how the formula that took Wal-Mart from Ozarks upstart to preeminent American retailer is no longer working. Sales growth is stalling as rivals grab share, while Wal-Mart keeps building. Add lawsuits, PR problems, rising costs, and a disenchanted Wall Street, and the picture isn’t pretty Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fear of Firing BW’s Chris Powers and Michael Orey on how the days when a boss could get rid of an underperformer or problem employee on the spot are long gone. Now workers in an expanding list of categories have companies scared to lower the ax, even if workers’ job performances fall seriously short Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mittal & Son BW executive editor John Byrne and London bureau chief Stanley Reed give us an inside look at one of the most powerful partnerships on the business stage: father and son, Lakshmi and Aditya Mittal Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who’s Afraid of Google? BW Executive Editor John Byrne and San Mateo Bureau Chief Rob Hof say that as the Web giant tears through media, software, and telecom, rivals fear its growing influence. And they’re rolling out the heavy artillery—mainly in the form of lawsuits—in an effort to stand up to the precocious nine-year-old Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond Virtual Reality Motion-capture technology is bursting out of Hollywood and into businesses as diverse as aerospace, advertising, health care, automaking, cell phones, security, and sports. BW executive editor, John Byrne, and reporter Aili McConnon say it's magic in motion Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The BusinessWeek 50 BW's John Byrne and Suzanne Woolley talk about The BusinessWeek 50, which represents our choice of the “best in class” from the 10 sectors that make up the S&P 500. They are the agitators and pioneers leading the way in the 21st century Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Trouble With India BusinessWeek's John Byrne and Steve Hamm discuss how an Indian tech explosion and foreign money have growth roaring. But infrastructure is a nightmare. Will it defeat the prosperity that seems within India's grasp? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What The Market Is Telling Us BusinessWeek’s John Byrne and Roben Forzad discuss how despite ominous signs, the outlook for U.S. markets is surprisingly upbeat. Global capital looks likely to flee riskier emerging markets and return to therelative safety of U.S. stocks Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Customer Service Champs BW Executive Editor John Byrne and Management Editor Jena Mcregor discuss BusinessWeek's first-ever ranking of companies where the consumer is king...and one extraordinary tumble Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Get Healthy—Or Else BW Executive Editor John Byrne and Senior Writer Michelle Conlin talk about how Scotts Miracle-Gro is way out in front in seeking to control health-care costs by pushing employees to live healthier lives. A companywide program includes weight loss, smoking cessation, exercise, a medical clinic, and a 24,000- square-foot wellness center. But Scotts is not without its critics, including one dismissed smoker who is suing the company Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It’s a Low, Low, Low, Low-Rate World Money is cheap. And some experts say it could stay that way for years. BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne and Senior Writer David Henry, talk about how that’s creating opportunity —and brand new risks Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carlyle Steps Into The Light BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne and Equities Editor Emily Thornton talk about how the Carlyle Group aims to flourish long after the buyout boom fizzles by diversifying into a broad range of assets and deals Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Up All Night The fast-food king has altered not only its menu, but its look, music, and most important, its hours. BusinessWeek exec editor John Byrne, talks to correspondent Michael Arndt about what’s next: slowing expansion and squeezing more out of existing outlets Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Environmental Sustainability BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne and International News Editor Pete Engardio invite their listeners to imagine a world in which socially responsible and eco-friendly practices actually boost a company’s bottom line Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sweet Revenge BW Executive Editor John Byrne talks with Jena McGregor, editor, management, about how, in the numbers-driven world of business, it’s easy to forget that the desire to get even is a primal human impulse Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blowup at Home Depot BW's executive editor, John Byrne, and correspondent Brian Grow talk about how in the end, Bob Nardelli's departure from Home Depot came down to a squabble over pay for performance. They discuss getting the inside story on the controversial CEO Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Business Trounced the Trial lawyers BW executive editor John Byrne talks with senior writer Michael Orey about how, in a little noticed development, the business community has turned the tide by aiming its attention -- and lots of cash -- at the states Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where to Invest in 2007 II (Part II) BusinessWeek editors John Byrne and Jeff Laderman talk about how our team of economists, pundits, and financial advisers help you suss out the best deals Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where to Invest in 2007 I (Part I) John Byrne, Business Week's executive managing editor, talks with senior editor, Jeff Laderman, about how our team of economists, pundits, and financial advisers help you suss out the best deals on international stocks, income investments, and much more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Best and Worst of the Last Year What do you say about 2006? It's the year the Enron scandal set, while the curtain rose on options backdating. From the rise of Web 2.0. to corporations like Wal-Mart and Exxon taking environmentalism seriously, BW editors offer perspective Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Smashing the Clock BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne and Associate Editor Michelle Conlin talk about Best Buy's radical experiment to transform a culture once known for killer hours. So far, productivity is up Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Soul of a New Microsoft BW Executive Editor John Byrne talks with Seattle Bureau Chief Jay Greene about how the software giant is embracing the need for innovation in a Web-centered world, and it’s giving a team of edgy thinkers like J Allard the go-ahead to look far beyond Windows for the next big thing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Secrets, Lies, and Sweatshops U.S. companies, burned by charges that they exploit Chinese labor, put in place strict work rules and increased factory inspections. BW Executive Editor John Byrne talks with Dexter Roberts and Peter Engardio about the BusinessWeek investigation that finds a mini-industry has sprung up to help Chinese suppliers hide abuses Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What the Election Won't Change John Byrne, Business Week's executive managing editor, talks with the magazine's chief economist, Mike Mandel, about how government -- regardless of which party dominates it -- will have less influence than ever on the U.S. economy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amazon's Risky Bet BW's John Byrne and Rob Hof discuss Amazon's daring plan to rent out just about every operation that powers its $10 billion online store. Is CEO Jeff Bezos making a brilliant move -- or gambling too much? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Taking of Lazard Known for deal-making, Bruce Wasserstein has pulled off his greatest: the initial public offering of Lazard, the storied investment bank, says BW correspondent Tony Bianco, who discusses Wasserstein's career with BW's executive editor, John Byrne Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gluttons at the Gate We’re in the middle of an unprecedented buyout boom and private equity firms are buying companies with market valuations of as much as $30 billion. Yet unlike the previous buyout boom in the 1980s, these firms are doing deals that are friendly, and they're loaded with their own cash. John Byrne also talks with Emily Thornton about the firms that are starting to take shortcuts to earn their returns Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Best B-Schools BusinessWeek's executive managing editor, John Byrne, talks with associate editor Lou Lavelle about BusinessWeek's exclusive B-School rankings and why, for the first time, Chicago came out on top Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Organic Myth BW Executive Editor John Byrne and senior writer Diane Brady discuss how the pastoral ideal is being trampled on, even for some of the most hallowed names in the business, as giants from Wal-Mart to Kellogg get into the game Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HP BW's John Byrne and Peter Burrows talk about how CEO Mark Hurd has led an amazing turnaround since he replaced Carly Fiorina. But can he keep HP humming in the face of a bruising scandal? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Click Fraud The spreading scourge known as click fraud poses the single biggest threat to the Internet's advertising gold mine. A raft of scams and deceptions inflate advertising bills for thousands of companies of all sizes, and is the most nettlesome question facing Google and Yahoo, whose digital empires depend on all that gold. Executive Editor John Byrne in a conversation with Business Week columnists Ben Elgin and Brian Grow Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's Really Propping Up the Economy Conventional wisdom is that housing has fueled most job growth over the past five years. But health-care service providers are the true engine of employment. BW executive managing editor John Byrne talks with chief economist Mike Mandel about what that means for the economy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best Places To Launch a Career A new generation is reshaping the U.S. workplace. Tech-savvy and achievement-oriented, these hires are eager for feedback and thrive on teamwork. BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne talks with Staff Editor Lindsey Gerdes about this week's cover story Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Your Mortgage Toxic? BW's John Byrne and Mara Der Hovanesian talk about how more homeowners will soon wake up to much higher mortgage payments and lower house values Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Secrets of the Male Shopper BW Executive Editor John Byrne, and Senior Writer Nanette Byrnes talk about why marketers are finally paying attention to the half of the male population they've been missing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Makes a Winner BW executive managing editor John Byrne talks with economics editor Peter Coy about the making of BusinessWeek's double issue on competitiveness: how people, organizations, and communities get ahead Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Valley Boys BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne, San Mateo Reporter Sarah Lacy and Innovation Editor Jessi Hempel talk about Digg.com's Kevin Rose and the new wave of young entrepreneurs running the hottest of the top 100 Web 2.0 companies Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Queen of Pop As Coca-Cola's president of marketing, strategy, and innovation, Mary Minnick is knocking the soda giant's staid cola-centric culture on its ear. In this week's podcast, BusinessWeek's executive editor, John Byrne, and Atlanta bureau chief, Dean Foust, discuss how if even half of what's on Minnick's drawing board sees the light of day, she will have ushered in the most innovative era in Coke's 120-year history Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emerging Giants A new breed of lean and hungry rivals is challenging the global business dominance of the West and Japan. Some come from China and India, others from Russia, Brazil, and even Egypt -- yet they all have resources that traditional established multinationals may lack. BusinessWeek's executive editor, John Byrne, and senior international editor, Peter Engardio, talk about whether the established market leaders should be afraid Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Am I Ready to Retire? Believe it or not, there is life after work. What will you do when the daily grind ends? It's time to be specific, and a whole industry is waiting to pinpoint pursuits you'll find most fulfilling. BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne and Senior Editor Jeff Laderman chat about what to do, where to live, and how to pay for it all Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spyware Underground Despite accounting for more than 10% of the booming Internet advertising business and afflicting as many as half of the world's PCs, very little is known about the spyware industry. Companies that develop and distribute these programs rarely grant interviews to the media or provide a glimpse into how they operate. Most, in fact, have long disguised their software programs to avoid legions of angry consumers. BW correspondent Ben Elgin sifted through more than 1,000 pages of court documents ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eureka, We Failed! Why are leaders encouraging workers to foul up? Because breakthroughs require risk-taking and nothing breeds success like failure. BusinessWeek's executive managing editor, John Byrne, talks with management editor Jena McGregor about how companies are realizing they must learn from their mistakes by embracing them and set their people free from fear of failure Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Godfather of Invention Nathan Myrvold's Intellectual Ventures has a detailed plan for profiting from the vast array of patents it is acquiring. In this week's podcast, BusinessWeek's executive editor, John Byrne, and senior writer, Michael Orey, discuss how snapping up thousands of patents can make Myrvold's company a leader in innovation -- or litigation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gates Get Schooled With their billions, Bill and Melinda Gates set out in 2000 to help fix America's troubled schools, but their quest to save American education remains an unfulfilled dream. What they've found is a steep learning curve and frustrating setbacks. But they're not giving up. BusinessWeek's Executive Editor John Byrne and Seattle bureau chief Jay Greene talk about how the couple's mix of small victories helps others figure out what works Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovation Champions BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne and Associate Editor Michelle Conlin talk about the making of the inaugural issue of IN: Inside Innovation, BW's new quarterly magazine devoted to helping companies use "design thinking" to reimagine how they operate and how best to cater to their customers' unmet needs. They also go into the making of the cover story and Conlin's innovation-learning journey Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mr. Risk Goes to Washington Investment bankers are making bigger bets with their own assets than ever before, gambling that huge returns will make up for losses when things turn ugly. BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne and investment banking editor Emily Thornton talk about how the skills that Treasury Secretary-designate Henry Paulson honed at Goldman Sachs may be just what the U.S. economy needs right now Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hot Growth The 100 outfits on BusinessWeek's Hot Growth Companies list may not be big, but they possess agility and fierce competitiveness. Many have sniffed out undiscovered niches. Some have only a little marketing experience. Quite a few cater to aging baby boomers. And each year, these Hot Growth companies create 60% of the net new jobs. In this week's podcast, BW executive editor John Byrnes interviews senior editor Arlene Weintraub about the making of this report on these intriguing businesses Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Medical Guesswork BW's John Byrne talks with writer Rob Hof about the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of most U.S. health-care treatments and the rise of "evidence-based medicine" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Craziest Ad Guys in America In this week's cover-story podcast, BusinessWeek's executive editor, John Byrne, and senior correspondent, David Kiley, talk about maverick ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky's tricky new assignment: rekindling the U.S. love affair with Volkswagen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best Undergraduate B-Schools Undergrad business programs are getting MBA-like respect, and competition is hotter than ever. BusinessWeek's executive editor, John Byrne, and B-schools editor, Louis Lavelle, talk about how the top schools stack up in BusinessWeek's first-ever exclusive rankings Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Virtual World, Real Money BusinessWeek's John Byrne talks with writer Rob Hof about this week's cover story. To research the article, Hof took a journey in cyberspace, where thousands of people have imaginary lives -- and some are even making a good living at it. But that's not all: Big advertisers are beginning to take notice of this virtual lifestyle Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World's Most Innovative Companies U.S. corporate giants are turning in strong profits, but their stocks remain weaklings on Wall Street. BusinessWeek executive editor, John Byrnes, and Wall Street and market editor, Roben Farzad, discuss why the blue-chip stocks are in the doldrums and how they can regain their luster Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blue Chip Blues U.S. corporate giants are turning in strong profits, but their stocks remain weaklings on Wall Street. BusinessWeek executive editor, John Byrnes, and Wall Street and market editor, Roben Farzad, discuss why the blue-chip stocks are in the doldrums and how they can regain their luster Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Buyer and Seller Beware If you're anxious about the current state of the housing market, you're in good company. In this climate everyone is running scared. BusinessWeek's executive editor, John Byrne, and economics editor, Peter Coy, talk about the avoidable errors of judgment that behavioral economists have identified as possibly leading to poor housing decisions Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The BusinessWeek 50 With world oil prices high, the energy sector's strong showing in this year's rankings of the BusinessWeek 50 comes as no surprise. In this BusinessWeek's executive editor John Byrne talks to Atlanta bureau chief Dean Foust about how a host of companies -- from Apple to Staples -- have scored big by using technology, design, or clever marketing to build intense customer loyalty Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Speed Demons Companies can create products and even whole businesses almost overnight. For everything from clothing to medical devices, enterprising outfits have cut in half the time it takes to bring a product to market. Competition is growing more intense -- driven by the rise of Asian powerhouses and the spread of Internet technology. BusinessWeek's executive editor, John Byrne, talks to BW senior writer Steve Hamm about the story behind this week's cover story Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mideast Oil Bonanza WBW's executive editor John Byrne and London bureau chief Stanley Reed go beyond the headline news to consider how Mideast money is transforming the shores of the Persian Gulf while getting more adventurous abroad Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forever Young BW's executive managing editor John Byrne talks with science editor Arlene Weintraub about her BW cover story on the anti-aging boom Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tough As Nails Skip the touchy-feely stuff. CEO Bob Nardelli runs Home Depot with a command-and-control structure that might seem retro in these days of empowered teams. Some say he's creating a culture of fear, but his boot-camp methods seem to be working quite nicely. BusinessWeek's executive editor, John Byrne, talks to correspondent Brian Grow about Nardelli's heightened drive to succeed and his impact on Home Depot Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Going Private The private-equity boom is giving hot-shot managers, mid-career folks, and newly minted MBAs a world where investors buy slumping companies, turn them around, then sell or take them public. And the payoff is high even at the entry level -- and sometimes spectacular for stars like ex-IBM chief Lou Gerstner. As for freedom, CEOs can build for the long term without shareholders second-guessing every move. Not to mention that pesky Sarbanes-Oxley... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can MTV Stay Cool? MTV turns 25 this year, and CEO Judy McGrath is organizing a "digital Marshall plan" just in time for the party. BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne and Senior Writer Editor Tom Lowry talk about how -- with business models being reinvented at an ever-quickening pace, especially in media -- staying ahead of trends challenges even the nimblest networker. Can Mcgrath's MTV change fast enough to thrive in the age of the iPod? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Mouseketeer He breathed new life into Apple and made Pixar into a movie powerhouse. Now with kindred spirit and gadget-lover Bob Iger of Disney, Jobs could help turn the staid giant into a leading lab for media convergence, marrying movies and iPods and much more. BW's John Byrne and cover-story writers Peter Burrows and Ronald Grover take a look at Jobs' modus operandi and how it may fit in at the Mouse House Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unmasking the Economy BusinessWeek's executive managing editor, John Byrne, talks with chief economist Michael Mandel about the thesis of his cover story: that in a knowledge-based world, the traditional measures don't tell the whole financial story. We're bombarded by reports about the problems with the U.S. economy -- the paltry investment rate, the yawning current account deficit, and the pathetic amount Americans salt away. But what if the doomsayers don't see the whole picture -- and businesses are investin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Outsourcing World Ever since companies began to shift work overseas, outsourcing has been portrayed as a killer of good-paying U.S. jobs. But now executives are discovering outsourcing can not only reduce costs but also boost quality -- and even create new types of jobs at home. BW's John Byrne and Peter Engardio discuss the making of the magazine's cover story on this highly important phenomenon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Math Stars Math whizzes have turned into the new global elite, and business and industry are using them in ways that were unthinkable a few years ago, says BusinessWeek's Stephen Baker. They're transforming personal data, trends, and online content into math -- crunching the numbers and discovering new efficiencies and ways to market. Before long, they'll have a mathematical model of you Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dream Machines There's an upside to the tremendous competitive pressures on the auto industry: sizzling new designs, a surge of tech-driven innovation -- including high-end safety features and formerly exotic options, says BusinessWeek's Detroit bureau chief, David Welch. You'll be able to have your car, your way -- as manufacturers craft models for every personality and budget Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intel Inside Out Intel founder Andy Grove is applauding CEO Paul Otellini's bold plan to send the high-tech giant into uncharted territory -- such as consumer electronics, wireless communications, and health care. BusinessWeek's Frank Comes and Cliff Edwards talk about Intel's new quest to power innovation from the living room to the emergency room. They also share some of the surprises they encountered while working on the Intel story for BW Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where to Invest Prospects look basically positive: Growth is brisk, corporate profits are climbing, and the Fed hikes are nearly over. So while no one would equate this market with 1999's, you can still expect higher returns in the stock market this year. BW's executive editor John Byrne and banking editor Mara Der Hovanesian go over reasons to be bullish in 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Googling for Gold With a market cap in orbit and more cash than small company, Google has startups, VCs, and bankers lined up all around the block. In fact, the company's raw purchasing power has shifted the focus of the tech industry-which raises one question: Just when does Google's long awaited shopping spree begin? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Drucker The story of Peter Drucker is the story of the rise of the modern corporation and the managers who organize work. But a humanistic regard for employees and a critique of the abuses of capitalism were also a crucial part of his legacy. Over 20-plus years, BW's John Byrne often met or spoke to Drucker in the course of reporting many business and management stories. In this podcast he tells us why Peter Drucker's ideas still matter Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website E-Collaboration The 'Behind This Week's Cover Story' podcast discusses the ways in which ingenious businesses are using the Internet. Forward-thinking companies are infusing the Web into every nook and cranny of their operations: using this new medium to make their customers and suppliers partners who help create products. Two BW editors -- Rob Hof and Heather Green -- involved in writing and editing the special package on Web-smart companies reflect on the insight they gained about Web collaboration and m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of 2005 In 2005 there were more revolutionary changes in more markets sparked by more breakthrough ideas than at any time since the golden 1990s. BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne and Assistant Managing Editor Bruce Nussbaum talk about the leadership, innovation, and creativity enabling companies that have embraced these virtuous -- and left their competitors in the dust Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The MySpace Generation With a market cap in orbit and more cash than small company, Google has startups, VCs, and bankers lined up all around the block. In fact, the company's raw purchasing power has shifted the focus of the tech industry-which raises one question: Just when does Google's long awaited shopping spree begin? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Honey, I Shrunk the Fed! BW's John Byrne and Mike Mandel talk about how incoming Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will preside over a diminished Fed. Under Bernanke, the Fed will still possess all of its vast powers, and it may be difficult not to act once he takes office. But Bernanke has made it known he believes the Fed should primarily focus on controlling inflation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Booyah! BW's John Byrne and Roben Farzad talk about Jim Cramer, who has attracted a cult following of amateur and professional stock pickers. His critics find reasons in his past to attack him, but Cramer's fans find plenty to love in his track record since his "Mad Money" television show went on air last spring. But just who is this Mad Man of Wall St? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESPN: The Empire BW’s John Byrne and Tom Lowry discuss how ESPN boss George Boden Heimer is trying to push his world-beating brand even deeper into the lives of sports fans by making its boldest brand extensions yet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Star Search BW's John Byrne and Nanette Byrnes discuss how corporations are meeting the challenges of finding, hiring, and retaining the best employees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Overworked American Globalization and information technology is opening up all sorts of new opportunities for innovation and collaboration, reports chief economist Mike Mandel. The problem? We’ve added all the new 21st century tasks, without eliminating any of the old corporate structure -- and this ends up taking a big chunk of your time. Can we ever get out of this mess? Or are we doomed to work ever longer at the office and at home? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I'm Outta Here Microsoft has lost several key executives in recent months, many to upstart rivals. Google alone has picked off 100 former Microsofties. Why? Employees say the software giant has slowed as it has moved into middle age. The challenges: morale, bureaucracy, and impediments to innovation. If Microsoft can't fix the problem, it could find itself in the same situation that IBM did when Microsoft was the hot upstart on the scene two decades ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hungry Swede BW's John Byrne and Kerry Capell on this week's cover story about Ikea. The Swedish retailer has earned a devoted following among the world's aspiring middle class through a combination of clever marketing, stylish design and affordable prices. Forget furniture, what Ikea sells is a way of life. Now Ikea is embarking on a new phase of expansion: Over the last three years it has doubled the number of new store openings and it is introducing its own line of prefab homes, private label ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website