Business

Career growth does not always come from climbing to the top of the largest company available. According to Michael Polk Newell Brands, some of the most valuable leadership experience happens inside smaller, resource-constrained organizations that force people to grow quickly. Learning by Doing Michael Polk, who led Newell Brands until […]

Four Traits of Successful Corporate Finance Entrepreneurs Corporate finance entrepreneurship blends two skill sets that are not always found in the same person: the operational instincts of a business builder and the structuring expertise of a dealmaker. Industry observers have identified a handful of traits that tend to distinguish those […]

Digital Payments Leadership in an Increasingly Global Market Digital payments have become the connective tissue of global commerce, quietly enabling transactions across borders that would have been impractical only a decade ago. As this infrastructure has matured, industry attention has increasingly turned to the executives responsible for building and maintaining […]

Why Public Records Matter More Than Ever in Private Equity Trust in private equity has always depended partly on reputation, but the tools used to verify that reputation have changed substantially. Where investors once relied almost entirely on word of mouth, they now routinely turn to a mix of registries, […]

Talk of artificial intelligence in government often swings between two extremes: breathless promises of total transformation or dismissal as an overhyped fad unsuited to public service. Justin Fulcher takes a narrower, more practical view. He sees AI less as a revolution and more as a set of tools that can […]

Justin Fulcher was nineteen when he left Clemson University for a three-month trip to Southeast Asia that stretched into seven years. He had taught himself to code at seven and started a business at thirteen, so a traditional campus schedule never held his attention for long. Charleston, South Carolina, the […]

For most of its history, the United States imported natural gas rather than shipping it abroad. Kelcy Warren saw an opening as domestic production climbed, and Energy Transfer began repurposing an old Gulf Coast import terminal into an export facility known as Lake Charles LNG. The move positioned the company […]

Few figures in American energy have earned recognition from as broad a cross-section of institutions as Kelcy Warren. The Energy Transfer founder and Executive Chairman has collected honors from industry bodies, civic organizations, and academic institutions over the course of his career. Energy Sector Recognition Warren’s honors from within the […]

Not every podcast producer thinks about legacy in terms of the next generation of creators. Greg Soros does. The Austin-based podcaster and founder of Podcraft Media Lab has made mentorship a defining feature of his professional identity, channeling time and resources into the Podcast Academy’s diversity fellowship to give emerging […]

When Justin Fulcher talks about AI in government, he doesn’t start with the technology. He starts with the operational problem that technology is supposed to solve. That sequence, he argues, is what separates implementations that take hold from ones that don’t. Fulcher co-founded RingMD, a telemedicine company that served patients […]