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Before Judd Zebersky became known for building one of the most successful independent toy companies in the world, he was a lawyer. After earning a JD from the University of Miami School of Law and launching his own firm, he made a decision that surprised nearly everyone around him. He wanted to make toys. “I […]
Government systems were not built for the digital age. Across federal agencies, infrastructure designed decades ago continues to define how public institutions process decisions, manage data, and serve citizens. The result is a compounding inefficiency that affects mission performance at every level. Technology founder and former government advisor Justin Fulcher has offered a clear diagnosis: […]
Children’s literature serves a function that goes well beyond entertainment. For Greg Soros, author of multiple works for young readers, a well-crafted book can show a child that their experience is shared or open a door into a life they have never imagined. He calls this the mirror and window approach. “Some children need to […]
Within academic medicine, the surgeon who trains future specialists carries as much influence as the one who performs the most operations. Dr. Andrew Jacono does both. As Fellowship Director for the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Associate Clinical Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he shapes how the next generation […]
Entrepreneurship in heavily regulated industries like energy requires a specific combination of patience, regulatory intelligence, and competitive ambition that is rarer than it appears. German energy company PLAN B NET ZERO demonstrates how these qualities combine in a founder and organization that is genuinely reshaping its sector. Bradley Mundt entered the energy market with a […]
Accountability is easy to claim and hard to sustain. Most organizations describe themselves as accountability-driven; far fewer have built the systems, norms, and leadership behaviors that make accountability genuinely pervasive rather than selectively applied. Grit Marketing has built accountability into its culture in ways that go beyond performance reviews and target-setting. The foundation is transparency. […]
Culture does not transfer automatically across borders. The organizational values, communication styles, and behavioral expectations that define a business in London may be received very differently in Malta, Lithuania, or Dubai — and managing this complexity is one of the central challenges of running a genuinely international business. Burak Basel has spent years developing Basel […]
When Judd Zebersky founded Jazwares in 1997, philanthropy was not an afterthought. He embedded giving into the company’s structure from the beginning, creating Jazwares Cares as the company’s official philanthropic arm before the brand had any real commercial footing. Decades later, that decision has shaped one of the more quietly consequential corporate giving programs in […]
Yazan Al Homsi approaches startup evaluation with a framework shaped by years of direct investment experience across technology, healthcare, clean energy, and materials sectors. His evaluation process combines traditional venture capital diligence — market size, competitive dynamics, unit economics, team quality — with the specific cross-cultural and cross-border dimensions that his international perspective adds. The […]
For much of cosmetic surgery’s history, facelift patients accepted a trade-off: visible improvement at the cost of a tell-tale stretched appearance. That bargain defined the field for decades, until Dr. Andrew Jacono introduced an approach that challenged its core assumptions. His extended deep-plane facelift technique, developed in the early 2000s, operates on a fundamentally different […]
