Category: Business

When Unilever recruited Michael Polk away from Kraft Foods in 2003, few could have predicted how far his career at the consumer goods giant would go. He started by leading the company’s USA Foods business, quickly establishing himself as a capable operator within one of the world’s largest food and personal care companies. Michael Polk […]

Surgical techniques spread through publication and instruction as much as through individual patient results, and Dr. Andrew Jacono has approached both deliberately. In 2021 he published The Art and Science of Extended Deep Plane Facelifting, a comprehensive medical textbook synthesizing insights from more than 2,000 procedures. The book serves as technical documentation for surgeons adopting […]

Not all chief executive roles look alike, according to Michael Polk Newell Brands former leader, who has spent more than 40 years running companies large and small, says the differences between public and private leadership are far greater than most people assume. Running the Show at a Public Giant Polk’s career includes senior roles at […]

Choosing a wealth manager is one of the most consequential decisions a family will make. Yet many families go about it the wrong way, focusing on credentials and past performance while overlooking the indicators that actually predict whether a relationship holds up over time. Michael Gold, founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, […]

Patients who undergo facelift surgery consistently report one priority above all others: they want to look like themselves, not like someone who has had surgery. For decades, that goal was difficult to achieve. Dr. Andrew Jacono‘s extended deep-plane facelift changed the calculus by abandoning the skin-tension model that made the surgical look so recognizable. Why […]

Trust in surgical technique is built slowly through published data, reproducible outcomes, and the endorsement of peers who understand what good results actually require. On all three counts, Dr. Andrew Jacono’s extended deep-plane facelift has accumulated an unusually strong record. Peer-Reviewed Evidence Behind the Method Dr. Andrew Jacono introduced the extended deep-plane facelift in the […]

Not every senior executive is built for the move from a large public company to a smaller, privately held one. The shift involves trading a certain kind of prestige and scale for something harder to quantify: proximity, agility, and a more direct hand in outcomes. Michael Polk made that trade in 2020 when he joined […]

Mergers and acquisitions are among the most value-destructive events in corporate history, with studies consistently showing that the majority fail to deliver the value they promise at the time of announcement. The culprit is rarely financial: it is cultural. Idaho business leader Karl Studer has developed a sophisticated understanding of why cultural integration so often […]

In conversations about technology and government modernization, the pressure to move fast is constant. Justin Fulcher, who has worked on technology adoption in both healthcare markets and U.S. defense agencies, makes a different case. The institutions that matter most are built for the long run, and the tools deployed inside them need to be, too. […]

Justin Fulcher left Clemson University before completing his degree, bought a ticket to Southeast Asia at nineteen, and spent the next seven years watching the same gap repeat itself across the region: communities with smartphones and internet access had no reliable way to see a doctor. Consumer technology had moved faster than healthcare infrastructure in […]