Irene Pepperberg’s 30-year relationship with a parrot named Alex radically shifted our notions of bird intelligence. With help from her African Grey companion, Pepperberg found that some birds have cognitive abilities once thought to be the province of primates alone…
Alumni Spotlight is pleased to announce The Top 100 Financial Services Executives of 2021. This award recognizes individuals who are leading financial services companies that are continuously driving best-in-class initiatives. During the extraordinary times of the COVID-19 pandemic, these individuals have stayed true to their passion by fostering economic growth through continuous challenges…
Alumni Spotlight is pleased to announce The Top 100 Financial Services Executives of 2021. This award recognizes individuals who are leading financial services companies that are continuously driving best-in-class initiatives. During the extraordinary times of the COVID-19 pandemic, these individuals have stayed true to their passion by fostering economic growth through continuous challenges…
As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Bank of America, the nation’s second largest bank, Brian Moynihan is undeniably one of the most powerful bankers in the U.S. Moynihan has held the post since January 2010, previously serving in various executive capacities for the company and its predecessors since he first came onboard in 1993…
The son of an ironworker and a home economics teacher, Tim Kaine has served as the junior U.S. Senator from Virginia since 2013. He was first elected to office in the 90s, serving as a city councilmember and then Mayor of Richmond, Virginia…
In 2012, visionary Italian computer scientist Silvio Micali won the Turing Award, which is referred to as “the Nobel Prize of Computing.” Micali, who has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1983, is also the founder of Algorand, one of the fastest-growing cryptocurrencies in the market…
Born in 1942, Louis V. Gerstner Jr. is best known for serving as IBM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; his nine-year tenure is often used as a case study in corporate leadership. When Gerstner took the reins of IBM in 1993, the tech giant was looking at either bankruptcy or breakup…
John Steinbeck is one of the most revered American literary figures and the author of numerous “classic” books that are routinely assigned in high school and college classrooms. Born in 1902, Steinbeck left college and worked as a manual laborer while trying to learn the craft of writing. Extremely prolific, he authored more than 30 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories…
Garry Trudeau may not be a household name, but during the past 50 years his groundbreaking comic strip “Doonesbury” has become one of the most widely syndicated cartoons ever. Part of Doonesbury’s success stems from its sophisticated reflection of the U.S. political and cultural landscape…
If you have ever experienced a debilitating hangover from too much Jägermeister, then chances are you can thank a man named Sidney Frank. Born in 1919, Frank’s life resembled something torn from the pages of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel…
