Nutrisystems

Most turnaround stories skip the hardest part. They tell you what the company pivoted from and what it pivoted to, and they leave out the months in between when the old business was still paying the bills, the new one wasn't paying anything, and the founder was...

In the 1880s, David McConnell sold books door to door in upstate New York. It was hard work with a low hit rate, and he needed something to get past the front door. So he started offering a small vial of perfume, which he made himself, as a thank-you to any woman who...

In 1902, five businessmen in Two Harbors, Minnesota, put their money into a mining operation. The plan was straightforward: dig up corundum, the hard mineral used in grinding wheels, and sell it to manufacturers. They called the company Minnesota Mining and...