Most leaders treat investment as a numbers game: more capital in, mission accomplished. Otis Rolley asked a different question: Who actually benefits? As president of the Rockefeller Foundation’s U.S. Equity and Economic Opportunity initiative, he built an approach that tied…
Most executives climb by mastering one thing. Not Womack. After joining Southern Company in 1988, he bounced through government affairs, communications, HR, power generation. Along the way, he developed an unusually broad view of how the energy business actually works.…
Credit gives a business room to breathe. It lets you buy inventory, cover a rough patch in cash flow, or fund growth without draining your own savings. But here’s the thing nobody tells you: business credit doesn’t just show up…
In 2020, Ifeoma Ozoma left Pinterest with more than a career setback behind her. As a public-policy manager, she’d helped shape the company’s response to vaccine misinformation and other thorny issues. Then she went public with allegations of racial discrimination,…
When Reggie Fils-Aimé joined Nintendo of America in 2004, the company was getting left behind. Sony’s PlayStation 2 and Microsoft’s Xbox dominated the console wars, and Nintendo’s GameCube had sold about 21.7 million units. PS2 moved over 155 million. That’s…
