For more than sixteen years, Greg Soros Author has built a career on the idea that a children’s book should do more than fill an afternoon. It should help a child make sense of the world. Soros, whose stories are read in classrooms and bedrooms alike, has spent his career refining a simple belief: young…

Long before he ran a multibillion-dollar company, Michael Polk was a young engineer working a swing shift inside a Pennsylvania paper mill. It was 1982, and Polk had just graduated from Cornell University when Procter & Gamble offered him a supervisory role on one of seven papermaking machines at the plant. He accepted the job…

Colcom Foundation describes its central purpose in direct terms: fostering a sustainable environment to protect quality of life for all Americans. That mission centers on addressing the major causes and consequences of overpopulation, along with its effects on natural resources. It is a framing that sets the organization apart from groups focused narrowly on pollution…

The private equity market has split into two tracks. At the top, 47 megadeals valued at $5 billion or more closed through the first nine months of 2025, pacing 31% above 2024’s count, per PwC. Below that tier, mid-market sponsors are competing for a narrowing pool of quality assets while fund-stage constraints press harder on…

The Colcom Foundation has now distributed more than $500 million in grants since its founding in 1996, a milestone that places it among the more prominent private funders operating in Western Pennsylvania. Founder Cordelia Scaife May established the organization with a focus on environmental conservation and sustainable population policy. Established with a vision to enhance…

At nineteen, Justin Fulcher left Clemson University for a three month trip to Southeast Asia that stretched into seven years. He had already learned to code at age seven and started a business as a teenager, so a traditional campus in Charleston, South Carolina felt too slow for someone eager to build something of his…

Most advice about writing for children starts with wants and goals. Greg Soros Author takes a different route. After more than fifteen years crafting stories for young readers, he has landed on a single question that guides every character he builds: what does this character need to learn? “The most important question isn’t ‘What does…

Few executives have led both massive public corporations and smaller private firms the way Michael Polk Newell Brands has. With more than 40 years in leadership roles, including stints at Kraft, Unilever, and Newell Brands, Polk has a rare vantage point on how differently the CEO job plays out depending on company structure. The Weight…

Greg Soros made a bet in 2020 that most people in his industry would have called reckless. Rather than ride the wave of content proliferation sweeping the podcasting world, the Portland native walked away from a senior producer role at a prominent media company and set out to build something deliberately smaller. His Austin-based studio,…

There is a particular kind of engineering challenge that only reveals itself when a system is deployed at scale in difficult conditions. Justin Fulcher has spent his career seeking out that challenge, first in healthcare technology across Asia and later in defense modernization in Washington. RingMD and the Problem of Reliability Fulcher co-founded RingMD in…