Features Region: Northeast

David Mitchell has spent his career leaning into the unfamiliar. From launching a publicly traded infrastructure fund in the mid-2000s to overseeing the finances of a wind energy startup in Brazil, where he also founded a solar company, the veteran CFO has built his professional identity around calculated risk — the kind that demands both […]

James McHale was not supposed to be on that train from Milan to Venice. Neither was the woman across from him. It was a first-time trip through Northern Italy, the kind of connection travelers forget within a week, except this one lasted. She was Italian, he was a young American with a background in finance […]

The rhythm of innovation pulses through every corner of D’Addario & Company, where centuries of musical craftsmanship meet the relentless drive of modern leadership. At the helm is CEO John D’Addario III, a ninth-generation steward of the iconic family business, whose roots stretch back to 17th-century Italy. Under John’s leadership, the company—founded in 1973—has become […]

It all started with a book club. As Karen Feeney tells it, she and her colleagues were just discussing “Turn the Ship Around” by David Marquet, who served as captain of the USS Santa Fe, the worst-performing ship in its fleet until Marquet took over and made some changes—chief among them a shift to what […]

For 77 years, ever since the first desk was delivered to a Wall Street firm, Empire Office has helped its customers create workplaces—and brands and company cultures. Maggie Wong says she didn’t know how intricate the industry was when she was recruited to join the company in 2022 as vice president for human resources and […]

Lynn Doonan is nothing if not adaptive. As senior vice president of human resources at Tenerity, she’s been helping over 1,000 employees in more than a dozen countries adjust to the post-pandemic “new normal.” “I don’t think the days of people going to an office 9-to-5, Monday to Friday, are ever going to return,” Doonan […]

Waleed Mahmood is something of a matchmaker. With 15 years of experience in human resources, he scrutinizes people’s skills and talents to place them in roles they not only love but that will help them advance their careers. However, finding the perfect match for a particular position means he must often veer off the beaten […]

In 2020, when companies across the world were shutting down or downsizing, Inline Plastics was ramping up operations. As a manufacturing company in the food packaging industry, it was considered an essential business, so its plants in Connecticut, Utah and Georgia never hit the off switch. Inline Plastics provides plastic containers to a variety of […]

It’s been a challenging year for the banking industry: In early March, the Federal Reserve’s total lending to banks was just under $5 billion, but by March 29, it had shot up to $332.7 billion. On March 17, the Wall Street Journal reported that economists had found 186 banks with similar risks to those of […]

It can take 10 years and more than $1 billion to develop a new drug or therapy from R&D through clinical trials and get approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to sell it—which, it goes without saying, is hardly a given. The process after getting the green light from the FDA, including pricing […]