Stan Alcorn
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Stan Alcorn is a reporter based in New York City. In addition to his work for Marketplace, he has reported for Fast Company, WNYC and NPR.
Latest Stories (159)
What GE tells us about big bank earnings
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Stan Alcorn
Apr 14, 2015
How are companies with finance as their core business faring?
What it means to say Kraft manipulated the wheat market
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Stan Alcorn
Apr 3, 2015
There's a fine line between "hedging" and "faking."
How art curators help boutique hotels stand out
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Stan Alcorn
Apr 3, 2015
Filling hotels fine art at a fraction of the cost is big business.
Jay Z's TIDAL is 'artist-owned.' Does it matter?
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Stan Alcorn
Mar 31, 2015
Jay Z has started a streaming music service called Tidal. Can its business model succeed?
Where do hotels buy their art?
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Stan Alcorn
Mar 30, 2015
Most buy images that fit within design requirements. But the options are endless.
The investors behind the Kraft-Heinz merger
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Stan Alcorn
Mar 25, 2015
What happens when you combine two companies to make the world's fifth largest food and beverage company?
Banks struggle to create "living wills"
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Stan Alcorn
Mar 24, 2015
Three big banks have had their failure plans rejected by regulators.
Why RadioShack's bankruptcy ended in an auction
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Stan Alcorn
Mar 23, 2015
Hedge funds are squabbling over Radio Shack like vultures fighting over a coyote carcass. How did it come to this?
Does net neutrality have a loophole?
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Stan Alcorn
Mar 20, 2015
Cable companies seek different avenues around new FCC ruling.
Why AT&T doesn't care it left the Dow
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Stan Alcorn
Mar 19, 2015
It turns out the Dow isn't what it used to be.