Queen Noor Al-Hussein of Jordan began her extraordinary life as Lisa Halaby, a wealthy, strikingly beautiful, American woman of Syrian descent who was educated in the Ivy League. In 1978, she married King Hussein of Jordan, which made her the first U.S.-born queen of an Arab country…
After starting off on the bond desk at Salomon Brothers, American author and financial journalist Michael Lewis grew disillusioned and left to write an account of his experiences in the industry. Published in 1989, Liar’s Poker remains one of the most highly regarded chronicles of investment banking and the excesses of an era. Since then, Lewis has found great success as a journalist and bestselling author…
Marissa Mayer is one of the highest profile women in the tech industry. She previously served as the president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! for five years, during which time she led the internet giant’s push to reinvent itself for the mobile era, while creating more than $40 billion of shareholder value…
Once a head football coach, William Campbell evolved into one of the most influential (and beloved) men in Silicon Valley. Campbell’s role in advising and bringing together people in the tech industry is legendary and during more than 30 years in California, he played an instrumental role for several high-profile entrepreneurs including Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin…
It’s been over 40 years since Steve Ballmer left the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) behind to join Bill Gates’ startup, Microsoft, and it’s safe to say his decision was wise. The two former Harvard classmates would become instrumental to each other’s success, with Ballmer serving as Gates’ personal assistant and voice of reason—the only person who could persuade the young visionary to delegate anything to somebody else…
Since the early 1980s, America’s hub of technological innovation has been centralized in a small swath of land surrounding San Francisco Bay, more commonly known as Silicon Valley. Central to the area’s growth—and the 20th century American tech boom—is Stanford University, the private research university that has smashed the notion of the elite East Coast and Ivy League superiority…
It is challenging to summarize the life, works, and influence of a writer like Isaac Asimov in just a few sentences—mostly he is known for his works of science fiction, a genre which he is credited for elevating by incorporating elements of history, sociology, mathematics, and science into his work. During his prolific career as an author, Asimov wrote more than 400 books and is considered to be one of the greatest science fiction writers of the 20th century…
For over half a century, Robert Rubin has glided between Washington and Wall Street as a banking executive, lawyer, and former U.S. presidential cabinet member. From 1995 until 1999 he served as our nation’s 70th Secretary of the Treasury, where he is given much of the credit for the Clinton administration’s economic policies…
Tiger Woods is widely regarded as one of the most successful golfers of all time. A child prodigy who began working on his legendary swing as a toddler, he went on to dominate the next stages at the junior level, college level, and amateur level…
Sonia Sotomayor made history in 2009 when she became America’s first Hispanic and Latina Supreme Court Justice. To many, she also represents the American dream…
