Maria Popova is a prodigious confluence of brains and work ethic. She is most widely known for being the sole author of Brain Pickings, a blog containing her writing on culture, books, and eclectic subjects on and off the Internet…
Mark Pincus is a pioneer of social games and helped establish gaming as a mass-market activity. He is best known as the founder of Zynga, a mobile social gaming company. Launched in 2007, it took the company only four years to go public with a $1 billion IPO. On his way to Zynga, Pincus started three other companies…
Stacey Snider is the only woman to have run two major movie studios in Hollywood. In 1985 she began her career in movie production by working in the mailroom of the Triad Agency. By 1992 Snider was the highest-ranking female executive at a Hollywood studio when she was named President of Production at Tri Star…
Tory Burch is a fashion designer who created a global apparel and accessories brand in a remarkably short period of time. After college, Burch began working for major fashion labels such as Ralph Lauren and Vera Wang…
Angela Duckworth is a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, a popular science author, and in 2013 was named a MacArthur Fellow. Duckworth is best known for her research on grit: a strength she defines as passion and perseverance for long-term goals…
Since beginning her professional journalism career in 1967, Andrea Mitchell has become an icon in the world of serious reporting, eventually rising to chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News. Domestically, the veteran correspondent has extensively covered every American president since Jimmy Carter…
Among the world’s richest men, Anil Ambani is an Indian business mogul who currently serves as the Chairman of the Reliance Group, one of India’s leading private sector organizations with global interests in telecommunications, entertainment, financial services, energy, and infrastructure. Following his father’s death in 2002, Ambani took over the reins of the Indian conglomerate, headquartered in Mumbai, India…
Alumni Spotlight is pleased to announce The Top 100 Wharton School Alumni in Finance & Investing. After many decades of producing some of the most promising business graduates, the name Continue Reading
Frank Quattrone was the most prominent investment banker of the 1990s tech boom. In 1977 he began his career with Morgan Stanley, rose through the crowd of tech bankers, and eventually led initial public offerings for more than 175 companies, including Cisco, Netscape, and Amazon…
Prominent Wall Street dealmaker Ken Moelis has been a major player in the high-stakes world of investment banking for more than four decades. Following a successful career as an executive at multiple large national banks, Moelis founded his own firm, Moelis & Company, in 2007…
