April 28, 2014 / Fortune Asia / Volume 169 / Number 6

28 Whole Foods Takes Over America
The hugely successful natural-food retailer is expanding into new and unexpected markets―Boise! Tulsa! Detroit!―and changing the way the country eats, one kale smoothie at a time.
By Beth Kowitt

36 The New Teamwork
Collaboration has never been more crucial in business. Meet six teams that know how to get things done.
By Jennifer Alsever, Jessi Hempel, Daniel Roberts, and Alex Taylor III

42 The Dawn of the Chrome Age
Google’s once-underdog browser is now No. 1. And Chrome is making inroads in laptops and TV. The success has made Sundar Pichai, who runs Chrome and Android, a top power in the company.
By Miguel Helft

48 Business Created China’s Pollution Problem. Now It Needs to Fix It
As Beijing finally confronts crippling air quality, it must turn to an unexpected ally to repair the damage.
By Scott Cendrowski

52 The Fortune Interview: Rupert Murdoch
In his first wide-ranging press interview in five years, the media mogul opens up about remaking his empire, succession and his children, his divorce, politics, and his new vineyard.

Interview by Patricia Sellers

6 MACRO
Closer Look
The People’s Republic is placing a giant bet on nuclear energy. Will the U.S. follow suit?
By Catherine Dunn

10 MACRO
Leaders in Innovation
How Major League Baseball aims to maintain its lead in the crowded sports-analytics field.
By Daniel Roberts

11 MACRO
Thought Leaders
Shareholder activists up their game.
By John Studzinski

12 MACRO
World’s Most Admired Companies
As online sales change the shipping business, FedEx stays a step ahead.
By Caroline Fairchild

13 MACRO
Road Warrior
Slava Rubin, CEO of crowdfunding platform Indiegogo, on T-shirt marketing, close calls, and in-flight productivity.
By Daniel Roberts

14 TECH
Reversals
Web-hosting firm GoDaddy is realizing that it must change its tune to attract small businesses.
By Adam Lashinsky

16 TECH
Mobility@Work
BlackBerry (OMG!) and others (O RLY?) see potential in business-messaging apps.
By Michal Lev-Ram

17 TECH
Connected
Can a roboticist program real human minds? Udacity CEO Sebastian Thrun is working on just that.
By Adam Lashinsky

18 INVEST
Market Strategy
After lagging small-caps for years, stocks of large companies are poised to outperform again.
By Jen Wieczner

24 CRISIS MANAGEMENT
New GM: Same As It Ever Was?
As the growing scandal around its ignition-switch recall illustrates, GM still hasn’t fixed its problematic culture in the years since bankruptcy.
By Doron Levin

INSIGHTS

20 Sheila Bair
Watch out for those hidden fees in prepaid debit cards.

21 Geoff Colvin
Welcome to the era of Lego innovation (some assembly required).

22 Allan Sloan
How Warren Buffett and Don Graham are saving $675 million in taxes.

23 Becky Quick
Retailing 2.0: The humble strip mall is bouncing back.

5 EDITOR’S DESK

60 BING!

ON THE COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY LAN YANG JI―IMAGINECHINA

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PHOTO:
New York Post owner Rupert Murdoch reading the rival Daily News in 1982
MURDOCH: TED THAI―TIME & LIFE PICTURES/GETTY IMAGES
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6 A turbine at China’s Sanmen nuclear plant, now under construction. The country expects to nearly quadruple its nuclear energy capacity by 2020.
STEFEN CHOW
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