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Judd Zebersky has described the early years of building Jazwares as an education unlike anything his legal training prepared him for. He landed in China in 1997 with no manufacturing background and spent months touring factories in remote parts of the country’s southern provinces. He was trying to learn an entire industry from the inside […]
The financial services industry faces persistent pressure to find professionals who can handle complex data with accuracy and creativity. Justin Nelson, JP Morgan Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Private Bank, believes a largely untapped source of such talent already exists neurodiverse individuals and that it is the industry’s hiring practices, not the candidates, that need […]
Few philanthropic organizations can claim three decades of consistent focus on some of conservation’s most difficult challenges. The Colcom Foundation, established in Pittsburgh in 1996 by Cordelia Scaife May, is one of them. Since opening its doors, the foundation has distributed more than $500 million in grants and built a record of environmental and community […]
Few industries talk about relationships more than financial services, and few industries do less to nurture them. The transactional nature of most advisory work driven by fees, minimums, and asset thresholds tends to thin out the kind of trust that only time can build. Justin Nelson, Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, […]
Financial markets reward patience more often than speed. Yet the pull to react to short-term noise remains one of the most common sources of long-term wealth destruction, particularly at the highest asset levels. Michael Gold, Founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, has spent more than two decades watching that dynamic play […]
The United States hit a significant environmental milestone in 1972 that largely went uncelebrated. In that year, the total fertility rate dropped below 2.1, the level at which a population replaces itself without growing. It has never risen above that threshold since. Colcom Foundation holds this up as proof that the country has already demonstrated […]
Capital has never been easier to access. Judgment, Michael Gold argues, is another matter. The founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, has built one of the region’s notable private wealth practices around that premise, and it shapes every element of how his firm serves clients. “Access to capital is no longer […]
Germany’s energy policy faces a dual challenge: decarbonizing its electricity supply while reducing dependence on imported fossil fuels. These goals are connected — renewable energy is generated domestically, from sun and wind that are available within Germany’s borders and those of its European neighbors — but achieving them requires accelerating the transition at the retail […]
Yazan Al Homsi has been one of the more consistent voices in Canadian venture capital arguing that AI-powered telemedicine is not a regional story but a national one — that the commercial logic driving adoption in rural and underserved markets applies with equal force across the full geographic span of North American healthcare. Rocket Doctor’s […]
Communication across hierarchical levels in large organizations is among the most persistent and most consequential leadership challenges. The distortions that information undergoes as it moves up and down the organization — the filtering, the softening, the selective emphasis — can create genuine disconnects between organizational reality and leadership understanding that result in poor decisions and […]
