For more than 25 years, Andrea Wong has been one of the entertainment industry’s most powerful figures. The executive, who most recently spent six years with Sony, oversaw Sony’s 18 overseas production companies. During her tenure there, one of the more celebrated deals she helped to broker was Sony buying a majority stake in Left Bank Pictures…
A trailblazing computer scientist who also served as a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, Grace Hopper’s legacy is a perfect blend of service and innovation. Hopper began her professional career teaching mathematics at Vassar for nearly a decade before enlisting in the U.S. Navy during World War II…
Widely regarded as having been the greatest cash-game poker player, Chip Reese was undoubtedly one of the most dangerous players on the felt for more than three decades. Born in 1951, Reese got started at an early age, when rheumatic fever forced him to stay at home during his years at elementary school…
Known as the “Lion of the Senate,” Democrat Ted Kennedy was an icon of liberal thought who was elected to Congress nine times, making him one of only six senators in U.S. history to serve more than 40 years. Born in 1932, he was the youngest of nine children in the famous Kennedy family…
In 2001, Ruth Simmons made the history books when she took the helm at Brown University and thus became the first African American president of an Ivy League institution. Before Brown, Simmons served six years as president of Smith College, where she launched a number of important academic initiatives, including the very first engineering program at a women’s college in America…
Thanks to his iconic role as the surly but soft-hearted Chief Jim Hopper on Netflix’s smash hit “Stranger Things,” David Harbour is currently one of television’s biggest stars. Harbour’s acting career stretches back to the late 90s, and he’s since gained a reputation as one of the most versatile actors around, consistently delivering compelling performances on film, television, and stage…
Described by The New York Times as “the most influential national security adviser since Henry Kissinger,” Sandy Berger (1945-2015) was an expert in economics, diplomacy, and military power. From 1997 to 2001, Berger served as the 19th U.S. National Security Advisor for President Bill Clinton…
During his extended professional sports career, Ross Ohlendorf was affectionately known as “the smartest man in baseball.” It all started in 2004, when Ohlendorf was still an undergraduate in the Ivy League, and was drafted in the fourth round by the Arizona Diamondbacks…
The son of a shoe salesman in California, Larry Fink’s meteoric rise on Wall Street is almost too incredible to believe. In 1988, he and several partners founded BlackRock, and under Fink’s leadership, the firm has grown into the biggest money manager the world has ever seen, with more than $9 trillion in assets under management…
Ever since she was a little girl, Kathleen Rubins dreamed of going to space. After getting involved with some public health groups in high school, though, she decided to pursue her interests in viruses and microbiology, which eventually led to a fellowship at MIT’s prestigious Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research…
