The Value of Cross-Sector Experience in Financial Services Innovation Financial services innovation rarely happens in isolation. It tends to emerge from executives who move fluidly between banking, technology, and merchant services, translating lessons from one domain into another and adapting them to a new context. Thomas Priore is one of the professionals frequently cited in […]

Park Avenue and rural Vietnam sit at opposite ends of facial plastic surgery, yet Dr. Andrew Jacono works in both. His New York practice serves a cosmetic surgery clientele that includes public figures, while his humanitarian missions treat children and domestic violence survivors who could never afford similar procedures. Dr. Andrew Jacono holds dual board […]

A moment on a school bus decades ago still shapes how Dr. Andrew Jacono practices medicine today. As a young medical student, he watched a girl who had been isolated by classmates because of a cleft lip and palate undergo reconstructive surgery. Her transformation, both physical and social, convinced him that surgical skill carried an […]

Why Choice Home Warranty Was Built for Sunday Night Emergencies There is a specific kind of dread that accompanies a household appliance failure on a Sunday evening. The dishwasher stops mid-cycle, the air conditioner goes silent in the middle of summer, or the water heater begins leaking into the utility closet. Repair technicians are unavailable, […]

Ask people who work with Kelcy Warren to describe him and a few words tend to come up again and again: bold, agile and inventive. The Energy Transfer co-founder has built a reputation over nearly three decades for seizing opportunities that other pipeline executives were too cautious to touch. Praise for the Team, Not Just […]

Surgical skill is often described in the abstract, but volume is one of the more concrete ways to measure it. Dr. Andrew Jacono performs approximately 250 deep-plane facelifts annually, a caseload that places him among a small group of surgeons who perform the procedure at that frequency. That number matters because facelift surgery, particularly the […]

Some surgical techniques gain recognition through journal articles read mostly by other physicians. Others gain it through public conversation, and Dr. Andrew Jacono has experienced both over the course of his career. The technique’s durability helped justify Dr. Jacono’s first peer-reviewed study, published in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal in 2011 based on 153 patients, and […]

A single story can mean two different things to two different children, and that duality sits at the center of how author Greg Soros approaches his craft. One reader might open a Soros book and recognize their own family. Another might open the same book and meet a family unlike anything they have known. Soros […]

There is a philosophy behind the work of children’s author Greg Soros, and it is more precise than it might initially sound. For Soros, who has spent over 16 years writing for young readers, the value of a children’s book can be measured against a single question: does it serve as both a mirror and […]