About Noe Alvarez NOÉ ÁLVAREZ was born to Mexican immigrant parents and raised working-class in Yakima, Washington. Noe Alvarez holds degrees in philosophy and creative writing from Whitman College and Emerson College, respectively. He studied conflict analysis, peacemaking, and conflict resolution at American University and in Northern Ireland, received a fellowship at Princeton University’s Woodrow…

There are few businesses which simply go on the up and up throughout their entire lifespan. Most companies actually have a significant amount of up and down, and there will be many times when it seems as though things are just not going to get any better. If you find yourself going through one of…

About John Woodrow Cox JOHN WOODROW COX is a staff writer at The Washington Post. He was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing and has won Scripps Howard’s Ernie Pyle Award for Human Interest Storytelling, the Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, and Columbia Journalism School’s Meyer “Mike” Berger Award…

About Alan Taylor Born in Portland, Maine on June 17, 1955, Alan Taylor attended Colby College, graduating in 1977. After serving as a researcher for historic preservation in the United States Virgin Islands (1977-79), he pursued graduate study at Brandeis University, receiving his Ph.D. in American History in 1986.

About Nadya Zhexembayeva  Nadya Zhexembayeva, Ph.D., has helped companies including Coca-Cola, IBM, CISCO, L’Oreal Group, Kohler, and many more transform products, leadership practices, and business models to meet new market demands and prepare for incoming disruptions. She insists that if companies are not ready to reinvent themselves periodically, they will become obsolete, and that applies to…

About Mauro Guillen From Mauro Guillen’s website: Mauro F. Guillén is one of the most original thinkers at the Wharton School, where he holds the Zandman Professorship in International Management and teaches in its flagship Advanced Management Program and many other courses for executives, MBAs, and undergraduates. An expert on global market trends, he is…