WATCH: Barbara Corcoran Interviewed by The Rise
06.06.2012
Gotham ArtistsToday on The Rise To The Top: Barbara Corcoran. Barbara Corcoran. Barbara Corcoran. Yes, today’s guest is so cool that she has to be mentioned three times. Yes, Barbara turned $1,000 into a billion dollar real estate empire. Yes, she did something awesome to get on ABC’s Shark Tank. Yes, she has a unique way of investing in people and running businesses. (The Rise to the Top) > View article
Frank Bruni: Trimming a Fat City
06.04.2012
Frank Bruni > View profileWHILE Michelle Obama focused on carrots, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg brandished a stick. It’s what we deserve. Cry all you want about a nanny state, but as a city and a nation we’ve gorged and guzzled past the point where a gentle nudge toward roughage suffices. We need a weight watcher willing to mete out some stricter discipline. (New York Times) > View article
Ken Dychtwald: Liberating Aging
05.31.2012
Ken Dychtwald > View profileMaggie Kuhn was a woman far ahead of her time. She was both a visionary and a role model for young and old, attesting to our potential for strength, worth and beauty in the later years. I'm also honored to say that she was my friend and mentor. In 1970, she co-founded the Gray Panthers after long, productive stints on the staffs of the YWCA and the national office of the United Presbyterian Church. Finding herself forcibly retired, bereft of her accustomed role and a sense of meaningful life involvement, she transformed into a brilliant, feisty, outspoken activist. Nicknamed "America's wrinkled radical," she unflinchingly challenged the "powers that be," from the U.S. Senate to the American Medical Association. (Huffington Post) > View article
Geoff Colvin: Indra Nooyi's Pepsi Challenge
05.29.2012
Geoff Colvin > View profile"Now tell me again -- what exactly is the issue with this company?" Indra Nooyi asks with an edge to her voice. She has just rattled off a list of statistics describing the financial performance of PepsiCo (PEP), the company she has run since late 2006. They show that it has been growing, earning high profit margins, and paying respectable returns to shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks. So, she wonders, what's the problem? Why on earth has she been taking such an infernal amount of heat from investors, Wall Street analysts, and the media? For she has been, and she clearly resents it. (Fortune) > View article
Zach Wahls: ‘That kid from YouTube’
05.29.2012
Gotham ArtistsYou know him as “That kid from YouTube,” but the now 20-year-old loving son of two moms, Zach Wahls hopes he will soon be “That kid from the New York Times Best Seller” list. “We’re all keeping our fingers crossed — it would be great to be a New York Times best selling author before I can legally have a drink to celebrate that fact,” says former Eagle Scout Wahls about his two-week-old memoir “My Two Moms,” which has been in or near the Amazon top 100 best sellers all week. (Washington Blade) > View article
Charles Best: ‘Push intelligence out to the edge'
05.23.2012
Gotham ArtistsDonorsChoose has been recognized as a non-profit that is changing the face of philanthropy. As Best explained, "There is a big change on the way in how long you have to wait and what you have to know to get to the marketplace." DonorsChoose is creating a marketplace where teachers can see their students' dreams come true. Today, more than 800,000 people have donated more than $100 million on DonorsChoose, so the game is changing. (Silicon Prairie News) > View article
WATCH: Majora Carter Delivers Keynote Speech at the Danville Regional Foundation
05.17.2012
Gotham ArtistsMajora Carter is a visionary voice in city planning who views urban renewal through an environmental lens. The South Bronx native draws a direct connection between ecological, economic and social degradation. Hence her motto: "Green the ghetto!" With her inspired ideas and fierce persistence, Carter managed to bring the South Bronx its first open-waterfront park in 60 years, Hunts Point Riverside Park. Then she scored $1.25 million in federal funds for a greenway along the South Bronx waterfront, bringing the neighborhood open space, pedestrian and bike paths, and space for mixed-use economic development. > View article
Erik Stolhanske: How a Kid with a Wooden Leg Took on Tinseltown
05.16.2012
Erik Stolhanske > View profileIt begins in a pretty average middle-class suburb in Minnesota. But October 1, 1945, has some real significance for me. It was the day Rod Carew, the longtime Minnesota Twins’ Hall of Fame first baseman, was born — into abject poverty, literally on a train in Panama. Growing up, all I wanted to be was Rod Carew. At night, when I shut my eyes to fall asleep, I could see him stepping into the batter’s box, cracking a single down the third base line or spearing a line drive. Like a lot of other 8-year-old boys, every waking moment was about baseball. Like any self-respecting kid would, I nagged the hell out of my mom until she signed me up for Little League. And like every other kid on my team, I ran onto the field and played my heart out. The thing was, as much as I tried to be like everyone else, I knew deep down that I was different. You see, I was born without a fibula in my right leg. It was just one of those genetic mistakes. (Colgate Connect) > View article
Charles Best: How Crowdfunding Changes Classrooms
05.15.2012
Gotham ArtistsBronx high school teacher Charles Best found that the resources for his classroom were severely lacking. He and his fellow teachers bought pencils and copy paper out-of-pocket, and spent much of their time together discussing the ways they wished they could engage their students if they had the extra funding. “The resources our students needed and the projects that would bring the subject matter to life never went beyond the teachers’ lunchroom,” Best says. (Mashable) > View article
Video Interview: Kara Swisher Analyzes the Yahoo! Mess
05.15.2012
Gotham ArtistsEmployees are "thrilled" that CEO Scott Thompson was given the boot. "The board acted quickly," Swisher says. "There was a problem and they fixed it. That's a good sign." Employees were "in a lot of pain" over the resume situation, and "the sentiment was not on Scott Thompson's side." Swisher says employees were not even hiding their names as they called for his ouster on message boards. (ABC News) > View article
Niall Ferguson: The European Farce
05.14.2012
Niall Ferguson > View profileWill the continent act to avert an economic cataclysm? (The Daily Beast) > View article
Geoff Colvin Interviews Adm. Mike Mullen: Debt is still biggest threat to U.S. security
05.10.2012
Geoff Colvin > View profileAs chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mike Mullen was particularly active and vocal. Far more than previous chairmen, he emphasized the importance of diplomacy and economics in U.S. defense. His Senate testimony that canceling the military's don't-ask, don't-tell policy was "the right thing to do" played a large role in ending the policy. In retirement he's focusing on helping veterans and their families, teaching, and working in the world of diplomacy. (Fortune) > View article
Daymond John: From Def Jam Fan to Hip-Hop Entrepreneur
05.08.2012
Gotham ArtistsWATCH: Daymond John identified a cultural need for hip-hop fashion, and then grew FUBU into a $350 million (sales) clothing business. (Inc.) > View article
Twitter & Obvious Corporation Co-Founder Biz Stone to discuss technology’s promises and dangers at Bucknell University
05.07.2012
Gotham ArtistsTwitter co-founder, social entrepreneur and one of TIME's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone, will speak at Bucknell University on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts. Stone will be one of the featured speakers in the new Bucknell Forum series "tech/no." The series will focus on the evolution of technology's role in society, and its potential to impact the world in both positive and negative ways. (Bucknell) > View article
Donna Brazile & Haley Barbour: Political Commentators Predict Tight Race for President at AALU Meeting
05.03.2012
Gotham ArtistsThe state of the economy and the unemployment rate, the rising cost of healthcare and gasoline prices will likely prove decisive issues when a narrowly divided American electorate goes to the polls in November to choose a candidate for president. That much was agreed to during a panel discussion on issues that will influence the outcome of fall campaign. The debate, hosted during a general session of the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting, being held in Washington, D.C. April 29-May 2, pitted Donna Brazile, a political analyst affiliated with the Democratic Party, against former Republican Governor of Mississippi Haley Barbour. (LifeHealth Pro) > View article
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