The hotel partnered with the fitness brand to offer personalized running tours around the city's famous landmarks.Drawing from the rising popularity of running tours, Four Seasons Milan decided to partner up with Nike to offer its guests a unique sightseeing opportunity.Guests interested in a running tour of the city can place a request at the concierge desk where they will be asked to fill in...

Based on the idea that canned food shouldn't be older than your baby, Little Spoon sends fresh, balanced meals on a subscription basis.Startup Little Spoon is passionate about changing an industry in hibernation: food for babies. Current choices, the company claims, contain a lot of unnecessary components (preservatives, stabilizers, added sugar) while lacking nutritional value. Their solution...

Growth is shifting, disruption is accelerating, and societal tensions are rising. Confronting these dynamics will help you craft a better strategy, and forge a brighter future.“The trend is your friend.” It’s the oldest adage in investing, and it applies to corporate performance, too. We’ve found through our work on the empirics of strategy that capturing tailwinds created by industry and g...

Forget General Motors, forget Ford. Tesla is now the largest car manufacturer in the United States. While that is untrue for obvious reasons, the Californian electric car maker is in fact the country’s most valuable automobile company in terms of market capitalization. Having surpassed Ford as recently as last week, Tesla’s share price continued to climb on Monday, causing the company’s mark...

25% of U.S. driving could be done by self-driving cars by 2030.New automotive technologies and business models are converging to spark a transformative revolution on our city streets.. It’s no longer a question of if but when self-driving vehicles (SDVs, also known as autonomous vehicles) will hit the road.Multiple parties are already at work developing autonomous-driving technologies, and the...

The first quarter of 2017 was another good quarter for technology company exits. We saw a number of very high profile tech company initial public offerings (IPOs) come to market, which is extremely encouraging given the limited activity we saw in 2016.On the merger and acquisition (M&A) side of things, we saw an equally positive trend with the number of technology M&A transactions comin...

The most popular beer on the planet is one you may never have even heard of. That's because sales of it are almost exclusively limited to one country: China.Sales of the world's best-selling beer, Snow, have grown 573% over the past decade, according to Bloomberg. But despite its popularity in China, it's available only at specialty retailers in the US.This 4% lager is extremely cheap and sells...

Sony has unveiled an upgraded version of its office-focused Digital Paper tablet.Digital technology is increasingly taking the paper out of paperwork, but there's always something nice about handwriting notes. A few years ago, Sony tried to bridge the gap with its business-focused e-paper tablet, and now the company has updated the device with higher resolution, bigger memory, NFC and Bluetooth...

Chemists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have designed triple-threat cancer-fighting polymer capsules that bring the promise of guided drug delivery closer to preclinical testing.These multilayer capsules show three traits that have been difficult to achieve in a single entity. They have good imaging contrast that allows detection with low-power ultrasound, they can stably and effici...