Letitia “Tish” James is an accomplished lawyer and activist whose long career in the public sector has served to break racial and gender boundaries across the country. In 2018 James was elected Attorney General of New York, making her the first woman elected as attorney general and the first Black woman to win statewide office…
Sridhar Vembu is one of India’s most successful entrepreneurs, a self-made billionaire who pulled himself up from the bootstraps with a great deal of hard work and an Ivy League education. Most famously he is known for building a billion-dollar software company from scratch without taking any external funding…
U.S. Army four-star general David Petraeus is widely regarded to be one of the most prominent military figures of the post-9/11 era. During his 37 years in the Army, Petraeus gained the reputation for being one of the great warrior-intellectuals in American military history, culminating his career with six consecutive commands as a general officer, five of which were in combat…
American economist Paul Krugman has been hailed as one of the most influential political opinion makers of our time. In 2008, Krugman was the sole recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences…
Alumni Spotlight is pleased to announce the Top 100 Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni in Finance & Investing. Considered one of the most prestigious business schools in the world, Continue Reading
Kevin Systrom is a computer programmer and entrepreneur best known for being the co-founder of Instagram, the world’s largest photo sharing website. Within two years of its launch, Instagram was acquired by Facebook for an astounding $1 billion in 2012…
Alumni Spotlight is pleased to announce the Top 100 Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni in Finance & Investing. Considered one of the most prestigious business schools in the world, Continue Reading
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…
Oscar winner, Lupita Nyong’o is a Kenyan-Mexican actress best known for her roles in movies like 12 Years A Slave and Black Panther. Growing up as the daughter of a well-to-do Nairobi politician, she shied away from the acting spotlight for most of her youth…
Nobel Prize winner Barbara McClintock was one of the greatest geneticists of the 20th century, a time when few women worked in the field. Her studies of genetic mutation in maize led to her discovery of “mobile genetic elements,” genes that move from one chromosome to another…
