Spa Week

When a business starts to slip, the owner usually feels it before they can measure it. Fewer calls. A quieter inbox. A bank balance that seems lower than it should be. That feeling is useful as an alarm, but it's a poor guide to what to do next. Some owners panic over...

In 1879, a St. Louis chemist named Joseph Lawrence created an alcohol-based antiseptic and named it Listerine, after Joseph Lister, the surgeon who championed sterile surgery. Lawrence first promoted it as a surgical antiseptic. Two years later he licensed the formula...

In 2003, three university students in Finland, Niklas Hed, Jarno Väkeväinen and Kim Dikert, won a game development competition and used the win to start a small studio called Relude. Two years later, after bringing in its first angel investor, the company renamed...