Photographer: Ty Wright/Bloomberg In November 2010, Exxon Mobil Corp. dispatched workers to a platform off the coast of Brazil, hoping to strike oil in one of the energy industry's most anticipated drilling programs. About 2,300 meters (1.4 miles)…
Photo illustration: 731; Photos: Getty Images Airbnb Inc. is used to mostly coming out on top. Despite fierce opposition from traditional hoteliers, the home-rental startup has negotiated regulations that have allowed it to operate in more than 500…
Photo Illustration: 731; Photos: Alamy; Getty Images U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue was fielding questions at a farm show in Decatur, Ill., in late August when his boss rang his cellphone. Perdue put the call on speaker and placed it…
In July 2018, a baby-faced lawyer named R. Brent Wisner seized the opportunity to ask his legal opponent a question that had been bugging him. Through a series of accidents, Wisner had found himself co-leading a monumental case against Bayer AG…
Behind the scenes at some of the world's biggest banks, small teams of employees are busy trying to calculate what might prove to be one of the most important numbers any financial institution will ever disclose: how much the assets on their…
