Category: Business

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 […]

Social Media’s Growing Role in Executive Reputation Executives across the gaming and investment world increasingly use social media as a direct channel for communicating with partners, journalists, and the public, supplementing the more formal profiles found on corporate websites and in press coverage. This shift has changed how reputations are built and maintained in industries […]

Look at the string of acquisitions Kelcy Warren has overseen and a pattern emerges. Nearly every major purchase added either scale or a new commodity stream to Energy Transfer, turning what began as a single-product gas gatherer into a diversified midstream operator. The 2011 Southern Union purchase, valued at 7.9 billion dollars, brought in the […]

Concentrated bets can generate outsized returns, but they also carry outsized risk, which is why many seasoned venture investors deliberately diversify across sectors that respond differently to economic cycles. Yazan Al Homsi, known for cross-sector bets has built a portfolio spanning clean hydrogen, AI-driven healthcare, and industrial recycling, three categories with meaningfully different risk and […]

Most toy company executives understand supply chains through spreadsheets. Judd Zebersky understood them through years on factory floors. Before he became the CEO of one of the industry’s most recognized companies, he was a lawyer who decided to go to China and learn toy manufacturing from scratch. Zebersky earned his JD at the University of […]