Business & Entrepreneurship

Rip Pruisken ’10 thinks Rip van Wafels could be the next Oreo. Starbucks is willing to bet that he could be right.

Luggage doesn’t need to be boring, thanks to a new company from Steph Korey ’09 and Jen Rubio.

Head to an empty-by-day restaurant.

David Lipman ’76 has created a plant-based burger to satisfy carnivores

Ditching an insurance job to craft beer in Nicaragua

Theresia Gouw ’90: a long, successful run as a Silicon Valley investor

Two Brown graduates start their own brewery after an influential trip to Belgium

Jennifer Knight ’89 has returned manufacturing jobs to an American town.

Casper transforms the mattress industry

The challenges of steering Uber into the future

Lipstick and more for all genders and skin tones

With a quarter of the U.S. population now living in states where marijuana is legal, the U.S. is entering a weed boom. The nascent industry creates products that millions of consumers want, that some doctors swear by—and that the federal government still outlaws. Opponents say that’s for good reason.

Angelique Brunner ’94 is a driving force behind the revitalization of some of Washington’s most blighted neighborhoods.