The Lone Strawberry

The world’s ultra-high-net-worth population is expected to grow 6.7% this year, lifting its combined wealth to $59.8 trillion. That growth brings more complicated balance sheets, more heirs, and more decisions with lasting consequences. Michael Gold, founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, says technical expertise alone will not be enough to serve […]

Few designers sustain a practice for a quarter century. Debby Gomulka has done so, and a 2025 CEOWORLD profile traces her path from furniture industry newcomer to international design ambassador. Her firm, Provenance Lee Interiors, was founded in 2000 and now spans residential design, historic restoration, and textiles. Over time she has added teaching, with […]

Governance and organizational ethics fill a module or two in most MBA programs. Justin Fulcher says government is where those same topics carry a weight no classroom exercise can replicate, a lesson that shaped his six months as a senior advisor at the Defense Department. A decision affecting defense procurement rarely lands with a small […]

A lot of children’s fiction now carries some kind of social-emotional goal alongside the plot, whether it is helping a reader name a feeling or handle a conflict with a friend. Greg Soros Aurthor writes squarely inside that space, but he is wary of letting the lesson show through the seams of the story. “The […]

Children’s book Author Greg Soros has spent more than fifteen years writing for young readers, and over that time he has settled on a single question that guides every character he creates. It is not what the character wants. It is what the character needs to learn. That distinction, Soros says, separates books that simply […]

Kraft Foods served as the training ground where Michael Polk transformed from a Procter & Gamble alumnus with a fresh MBA into a seasoned commercial executive. He joined the company after Harvard Business School, starting in brand management and sales before moving into broader leadership positions. His responsibilities expanded steadily. Michael Polk went on to […]

Before Michael Polk Newell Brands became known as a transformative chief executive, he was an engineering student at Cornell University with a curiosity for numbers and systems. Accepted early decision, he chose to study Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, following in his father’s footsteps into the engineering field. Polk has described his major as one […]

A teenage girl riding alone on a school bus once caught the attention of a young medical student. Classmates had isolated her because of a cleft lip and palate, and that isolation left its mark on him. When reconstructive surgery later changed her face and her place among her peers, the transformation revealed something he […]