Named Acting Director of the FBI in May 2017, Andrew McCabe spent a total of 21 years at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, combating organized crime as well as the growing terrorism and cybersecurity threat landscape. A lawyer by training, McCabe joined the FBI in 1996 and was assigned to the New York Field Office…
Warren Beatty’s life is the stuff of Hollywood legend, and not just because his career spans more than six decades. After studying with the famed acting teacher Stella Adler, Beatty was 22 when he got his big break with his three-episode TV debut in “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.” Although his film debut in “Splendor in the Grass” (1961) was widely acclaimed by critics and viewers alike…
Susan Wojcicki is CEO of YouTube and arguably the most powerful woman on the internet. According to Silicon Valley lore, Wojcicki began her rapid ascendency as the landlady of Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In 1998, the founders of Google rented the garage and two rooms of her house near Palo Alto, California…
In 2014, “Guardians of the Galaxy” made James Gunn a household name. As a film director, Gunn has earned a die-hard fandom by injecting irreverent comedy, dynamic music, and high energy into his work. Now one of Hollywood’s top directors, he is known for his work in both the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the DC Extended Universe (DCEU), which includes the “Guardians” trilogy, “The Suicide Squad,” and the “Peacemaker” series..
Having zero experience in economics didn’t stop Daniel Kahneman from receiving a Nobel Prize in the field. Kahneman, an Israeli-American psychologist and academic, is best known for his work in integrating insights from psychological research into economic science. Previously, economists assumed that people are for the most part rational decision-makers who act in support of their self-interest. Kahneman’s groundbreaking research suggested otherwise…
In a truly rare feat, U.S. Senator Angus King has been able to ride political centrism to power. Although previously affiliated with the Democratic Party, he declared himself an Independent when he first entered electoral politics with a successful run for Governor of Maine in 1994…
Carter Bradley is the Co-Founder and CEO of Veris Insights, an insights and analytics firm dedicated to supporting Talent Acquisition, University Recruiting, DEI, and Employer Branding leaders in their most difficult work. Carter and his co-founders started the firm during their sophomore year at Princeton as a small, custom research shop called Ivy Research Council (IRC)…
Comedian Yakov Smirnoff was the 1980s embodiment of the American dream. After escaping the communist Soviet Union in 1977, Yakov arrived in the U.S. unable to speak English. But this didn’t stop him from becoming a household name by the mid-1980s, when he was performing his standup comedy on “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson” and countless other TV programs, including his very own show, named after his famous catch-phrase.
Tim Ferriss is an author, investor, and entrepreneur best known for his podcast, “The Tim Ferriss Show,” which is the first business/interview podcast to exceed 100 million downloads. Born and raised in New York City, Ferriss turned his obsession with health and technology into the foundation of his first company, BrainQUICKEN, a digitalized nutritional supplements company.
Noble Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz is one of the world’s leading economists and economic educators. In 2001, Stiglitz was awarded the iconic award because of his pioneering work on asymmetric information, which considers the broad effects of decision-making in transactions in which one side has better information than the other…
