Category: Business

There is no shortage of ambition when federal agencies talk about artificial intelligence. Pilot programs launch, vendors make presentations, and leadership teams endorse modernization roadmaps. What happens next is often less encouraging. Justin Fulcher, who has advised on technology modernization from inside the Department of Defense, has a clear view of why these efforts frequently…

Why Behavioral Health Companies Like Acadia Healthcare Value Experienced Leaders Operator experience counts for a lot in behavioral health. Running facilities well takes real familiarity with clinical care, staffing, and regulation. Acadia Healthcare leaned on that idea in January 2026, when it named Debbie Osteen, a leader with decades in the field, as chief executive.…

The playbook that New York private equity firm 3G Capital has refined over decades is deceptively simple: buy iconic consumer brands, install world-class management, instill cost discipline, and compound value over the long term. The execution, however, requires exceptional skill, judgment, and organizational capability. The transformation of Heinz following 3G’s acquisition with Berkshire Hathaway became…

Talent acquisition in financial services is a competitive undertaking, and Justin Nelson, JP Morgan Managing Director, believes firms are making it harder on themselves by excluding neurodiverse candidates. Nelson leads the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, where his group manages more than $15 billion in assets.…

Announcements of government AI initiatives often emphasize capability. Justin Fulcher, who has navigated technology modernization from both the private sector and a senior advisory role at the Department of Defense, argues that the focus should be elsewhere. Agencies that prioritize a tool’s features ahead of its fit with existing operations tend to generate pilots that…

The path Dr. Andrew Jacono chose was not accidental. It traces directly to a moment in his childhood when he witnessed how a facial difference could isolate a person from ordinary social life and how surgery could change that. The girl with a cleft lip and palate who rode his school bus became, unknowingly, his…

Genuine confidence — not the performance of confidence but the actual internal conviction that you are capable of handling what is in front of you — is built through evidence. Each challenging situation successfully navigated provides the experiential foundation for greater confidence in the next one; each capability developed expands the range of situations in…

The concept of work-life balance implies a zero-sum competition between professional demands and personal ones — time spent on one necessarily taken from the other. Karl Studer operates with a different framework: that a well-constructed life integrates rather than balances its different demands, and that the separation of professional and personal identities into competing compartments…

Business exits are among the most financially consequential events in an entrepreneur’s life. The years leading up to a sale or transition, and the period immediately following, determine how much wealth is preserved and how effectively it is structured for the family’s future. Michael Gold, founder of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, has built…

A financial advisor who tells you what to do before fully understanding your situation is not giving advice. Michael Gold, the founder of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, makes this point with deliberate bluntness. After more than 25 years advising entrepreneurs, business owners, and wealthy families, he has seen what happens when advisors skip…