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Count the titles in a long career, and you can learn a good deal about its direction. Across a consulting organization and its corporate predecessors that would eventually become WTW, this career spans twenty-four years and seven months, with nine …

Ventor Technologies was a venture-backed start-up in Israel, developing transcatheter heart-valve replacement technologies. In February 2009, Medtronic acquired the company in a transaction reported at US$325 million. The executive who led that sale was Dr. Guy Ezekiel, who earned his …

In 2004, over ten months, a house in Warsaw, Indiana, was purchased, rebuilt, rented, and resold. Austin managed the entire process, coordinating employees and subcontractors. The project yielded a profit of $17,000, and the appraiser remarked on the high quality …

Read a career backward, and it can resemble a stack of postcards from unrelated places. A few summer months spent alongside engineers working on systems beneath the sea. Three years analyzing counter-terrorism finance for policymakers. A desk at the FBI. …

Choosing a health plan has the feel of a finish line. There is the relief of a decision made, a selection confirmed, a box checked. For those who work closely with individual coverage, though, that moment looks more like a …

Understanding the sheer scale of global networks requires a particular kind of intellectual stamina. The mind must comfortably hold the microscopic details of user interaction alongside the massive shifts of the modern era. Reid Hoffman has mastered this duality. Today, …