Business
Lessons from real businesses
True stories of companies that got it right, got it wrong, or both, each told in a few minutes with the lesson up front. Plus free charts, economic data and calculators for running a household or a business.
Business Cases
40 short cases, from the Tylenol recall to Toyota's andon cord. Each has a summary, the full story, the numbers, the lessons learned and questions to talk over, and a card you can save as a picture, like a business Aesop's fable.
Read the cases →Markets & Economy
Live charts, a stock screener, economic data and an economic calendar, Treasury rates, and calculators for loans, bonds, compounding and more.
Open the tools →A few of the lessons
The thing that made you rich can become the thing that holds you back.Polaroid Corporation, 1937–2001
Grow only as fast as you can stay good.In-N-Out Burger, 1948–present
The giant who laughs at the little newcomer may one day be looking up at it.Netflix and Blockbuster, 2000–2010
Give people trust along with responsibility, and they will usually rise to meet it.The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, 1990s
An invention is only a seed; it takes someone willing to plant it to grow a harvest.Xerox, 1970–1984
If you won't replace your own best product, someone else will do it for you.Eastman Kodak, 1975–2012
For families
Many homeschooling parents also run a business, and these cases make good reading for teenagers: read one a week together, talk through the questions at the end, and ask what they would have done. They pair well with the arithmetic of percentage, interest and profit in Ray's Practical Arithmetic.