Johnson Joseph’s journey at WeWork began with a single tweet. The personal trainer was looking for an internship one summer and, on a whim, tweeted back at WeWork when it published a post calling for resumes. This was more than three years ago. The WeWork veteran is now a beloved Community Manager at the Soho […]

One night in spring 2014, I sat on the floor, scanning the spines of books housed on a petite bookshelf in a spare, but very well-appointed one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan. The apartment belonged to the business developer I’d recently begun seeing, who I admired for his high-functioning lifestyle. He rose at 5:30 every day to […]

If you think DJ John Hamilton seems cool and composed, just wait for his tracks to drop. Drawing inspiration from an eclectic array of genres, the DJ and producer bends boundaries with his music. Hamilton is an aural architect, every song transporting listeners to a different time, place, and emotion. Coming from a musical family, […]

Carla Hacken isn’t just a film producer. She’s also an entrepreneur. As I interviewed the production president of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, I learned that much of what she does launching a new movie crosses over to starting a business. Some background about Hacken: She began her career as a talent agent for International Creative Management. […]

When Ellen He looks around the classroom, she’s reminded how far women still have to go. As a female MBA candidate at Washington University in St. Louis, she’s in the minority. Barely a quarter of her fellow students at Olin Business School are women—a statistic on par with other top U.S. programs. “This country used […]

As a small business owner, chances are you are juggling more than your fair share of duties. Nothing passes by your desk without you seeing it first. Nothing gets completed without your approval. And nothing can move without you pushing it. Every day, the clock strikes five, and you realize you are no closer than […]

There’s a deafening hype surrounding F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton, a film depicting the short-lived but high-flying career of the rap group N.W.A in the late ’80s and early ’90s. It comes toward the end of a summer filled with music movies: Love and Mercy, about Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, Amy, on […]

Big business has been hungry. Not for money per se, but for good design. Lately, there have been unprecedented power plays made by corporates seeking to gobble up top design firms: Google and Gecko Design Inc., Facebook and Teehan+Lax, and CapitalOne and Adaptive Path, to name a few. In my two decades of working with […]