American financier Charles Schwab became a pioneer in the discount brokerage business after he started his eponymous firm in 1971. Using a loan from his uncle, Schwab first opened a traditional brick-and-mortar brokerage in San Francisco, California…
Benjamin Netanyahu was Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. Fifteen years in power, including 12 consecutively, have seen him break several historical records. In 1996 Netanyahu became Israel’s youngest prime minister and someone with a rich political history…
Alumni Spotlight is pleased to announce The Top 100 Dartmouth Alumni in Technology of 2021. Dartmouth College, a private institution located in Hanover, New Hampshire, was founded in 1769. The college has undergraduate science, arts, and engineering departments and four highly ranked graduate programs in business, engineering, and medicine…
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…
Anthony Romero is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the nation’s premier defender of civil liberties. An attorney by training, Romero is the first Latino and openly gay man to serve as leader of the ACLU…
American business executive Anne Sweeney is known for her leading positions, especially at the Walt Disney Company and 21st Century Fox. Over the course of her career, which has spanned more than three decades, she has risen through the ranks of the entertainment industry amassing one success after another…
When Carly Fiorina was hired as Hewlett-Packard’s Chief Executive Officer, she became the first woman to take control of a Fortune 100 company. Among her CEO accomplishments, she led the reinvention of the legendary company, steering it through the dot-com bust. She was also instrumental in achieving a merger with rival computer company Compaq…
Robert Mueller became the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2001, just one week before the terrorist attacks of September 11. He stepped down in 2013, concluding a 12-year term that made him the longest-serving Director of the FBI since J. Edgar Hoover…
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…
In 1998 Jennifer Granholm made history when she became the first woman to be elected as attorney general for the state of Michigan. Four years later, voters chose her as the state’s first woman governor…
