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Nancy Hairston, CEO and founder of MEDCad
Success

This founder went from designing Happy Meal toys to making prosthetic skulls for a living—and her company now rakes in $20 million a year

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November 2, 2025
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Retail

Mattel just introduced its first Barbie doll with Type 1 diabetes

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July 9, 2025
Alexandr Wang, co-founder and CEO of Scale AI, in San Francisco on Aug. 8, 2019. (Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
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Why Meta hired Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang

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June 13, 2025
Singer Jordin Sparks visits Polly Pocket's Airbnb on September 27, 2024 in Littleton, Massachusetts.
Tech

Mattel taps OpenAI to help it design toys, other products

By Thomas Buckley and Bloomberg
June 12, 2025
Mattel gets 40% of its toys from China and says it will raise prices ‘where necessary’ to offset Trump tariff costs
Finance

Mattel gets 40% of its toys from China and says it will raise prices ‘where necessary’ to offset Trump tariff costs

By Anne D'Innocenzio and The Associated Press
May 6, 2025
LeBron James Ken doll
Retail

He’s just Ken: LeBron James becomes first pro male athlete Barbie doll as Mattel bets on adult customers

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April 10, 2025
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo holding hands
Retail

Mattel was supposed to have a hit with its ‘Wicked’ dolls ahead of the movie premiere. But it backfired

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November 11, 2024
Young woman at the beach talks pink "Barbie" phone
Success

The $130 Barbie dumbphone is targeting Gen Z’s nostalgia for an era they can’t remember

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August 29, 2024
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Retail

Lego announces historic half-year as it launches 300 sets and 41 stores, cementing its lead in the toy industry

By Prarthana Prakash and AFP
August 28, 2024
Scrabble
Lifestyle

Scrabble, the famous game about clever word play, redesigned itself to be ‘for anyone who finds word games intimidating’

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April 9, 2024
The ‘Barbie’ Oscar snub discourse takes a bizarre, political turn as Hillary Clinton tells Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie they’re ‘both so much more than Kenough’
Lifestyle

The ‘Barbie’ Oscar snub discourse takes a bizarre, political turn as Hillary Clinton tells Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie they’re ‘both so much more than Kenough’

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January 25, 2024
Greta Gerwig is the highest-grossing female director of all time, but wasn’t Oscar-nominated for directing ‘Barbie’
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Greta Gerwig is the highest-grossing female director of all time, but wasn’t Oscar-nominated for directing ‘Barbie’

By Emma Hinchliffe and Joey Abrams
January 24, 2024
Thanks to “Barbie” movie topping 2023 box office, Mattel is thriving as Hasbro cuts 1,100 jobs
Finance

Thanks to “Barbie” movie topping 2023 box office, Mattel is thriving as Hasbro cuts 1,100 jobs

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December 16, 2023
Wilma Mankiller Barbie
Retail

Native Americans rip Mattel for Wilma Mankiller Barbie that says ‘Chicken’ instead of ‘Cherokee’

By Sean Murphy and The Associated Press
December 5, 2023
Barbie’s friend, Ken, fails to get into the toy hall of fame despite recent movie stardom in which he was portrayed by Ryan Gosling
Retail

Barbie’s friend, Ken, fails to get into the toy hall of fame despite recent movie stardom in which he was portrayed by Ryan Gosling

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November 10, 2023

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