Wing On Department Store took deposits to fund itself
Wing On, denied bank loans, took public deposits to fund itself.
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3,236 CAS PUBLIÉS · MIS À JOUR RÉGULIÈREMENTSandia designed a nuclear warning that works without language
Sandia designed WIPP's 10,000-year warning as menacing spikes and earthworks, with text only as backup.
Lire le casYe Chengzhong proved his honesty by returning a lost briefcase
Ye Chengzhong, a 17-year-old sampan peddler, proved his trustworthiness to foreign merchants by returning a lost briefcase full of cash and refusing the reward.
Lire le casZheng He's fleet grew mung bean sprouts to prevent scurvy
Zheng He's fleet prevented scurvy by sprouting mung beans in trays on deck, creating a fresh vitamin C source.
Lire le casZiggo Dome built restroom walls that move
Ziggo Dome's architects built a movable wall between men's and women's restrooms so staff can adjust stall counts to each event's crowd.
Lire le casZigong drillers solved wood shortage by burning gas from same wells
Zigong's salt drillers, facing wood shortages, drilled deeper to reach gas in the same borehole and piped it to boil brine.
Lire le casZigong's salt merchants split well risks into separate contracts
Zigong's salt merchants split a well's drilling, brine, and gas into separate contracts, letting each party bear only the risk they chose.
Lire le casRwanda and Zipline fired blood by drone to beat road delays
Rwanda and Zipline centralized blood storage and delivered it by catapult-launched drones, eliminating the stockpile-vs-speed tradeoff.
Lire le casZTO made franchisees shareholders to stop price wars
ZTO's founder gave up 20% of his shares to make its biggest regional franchisees shareholders, aligning their incentives with the network's.
Lire le casKenya's road-safety campaign gave passengers a script to yell at reckless matatu drivers
Kenya's road-safety campaign gave matatu passengers stickers that authorized them to reprimand reckless drivers, cutting crashes.
Lire le casAccessible Icon Project changed the wheelchair symbol by sticking it over old signs
Hendren and Glenney stuck new wheelchair symbol stickers over old signs in Boston, letting public use drive adoption.
Lire le casAhlgrim Funeral Home built a mini golf course to get families in the door
Ahlgrim Funeral Home built a public mini golf course in its basement to give families a fun reason to visit before they ever needed funeral services.
Lire le casAIGA fixed confusing ballots by bringing in typographers
AIGA's Design for Democracy brought graphic designers into election offices to redesign confusing ballots, fixing the butterfly ballot problem.
Lire le casAirbnb founders sold $40 cereal to prove they could sell the implausible
Broke Airbnb founders sold $40 cereal boxes to prove they could sell the implausible, convincing Paul Graham to invest.
Lire le casAl-Biruni measured Earth's size from one mountaintop
Al-Biruni measured the Earth's radius from a single mountain, using its height and the horizon's dip angle, avoiding a long desert survey.
Lire le casAldi made customers return carts with a refundable coin deposit
Aldi fitted carts with coin locks so customers get their quarter back only by returning the cart, eliminating retrieval labor.
Lire le casAmazon met wholesaler minimums by ordering an out-of-stock book
Amazon padded each single-book order with nine copies of an out-of-stock lichen book to meet the wholesaler's 10-book minimum without paying for unwanted stock.
Lire le casAmex invented Small Business Saturday instead of advertising on Black Friday
American Express invented Small Business Saturday, a new day between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and sponsored its infrastructure to own it.
Lire le casAmundsen marked depots with crosswise flag rows to catch lost parties
Amundsen marked depots with crosswise flag rows so lost parties would cross them.
Lire le casGreek sea lenders forgave loans on sunken ships
Greek sea lenders financed voyages by forgiving the loan if the ship sank and charging a high premium on successful ones.
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