CEO Spotlight

In an interview with Adam Bryant, Richelieu Dennis, founder of the Sundial Brands beauty products company, discusses building a business vs. a career. Dennis has applied his entrepreneur skills and a few lessons from his family to build up a multi-billion dollar personal care enterprise. Richelieu Dennis Background Richelieu Dennis...

Do women love flowers? Of course, they do. Maybe the famous actress Drew Barrymore, when planning to start her own business, thought just like this. Women love flowers. So, she decided to name her two new brands, Flower Beauty and Flower Home. Drew Barrymore has many years in the beauty...

The current leadership approach is to make managing teams as effortless as possible. But in doing that, you create an organization of less engaged team members that feel even less ownership towards the organization and less connection to their co-workers. Investing effort in a relationship When people aren’t engaged in...

Leadership is imperative to all businesses, and with the right strategies and capabilities, any transformation is possible. Following is an interview case study of how Dev Pragad transformed Newsweek from a failing readership base into a digital powerhouse with 100 million readers in just a few years. Dev Pragad is...

The entrepreneurial journey of women is never easy, especially when they aren't born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Beset with stereotypes, doubts, and misogyny, the experiences of businesswomen aren't short of shock and hardship. However, despite all these challenges the societal norms and perceptions place in the entrepreneurial...

The siren call of entrepreneurship is loud and haunting. The idea of creating something out of nothing, building a business from the ground up and being your own boss in the process is certainly alluring, which is probably why over 600,000 new businesses open in the United States every year....

Which qualities have made Seaquake Co-founder and CEO Andrew Katz successful as a C-suite executive, innovator, and cutting-edge entrepreneur? According to Katz, his sustained and remarkable success over the years has been due to three key factors: An unrelenting drive. The ability to adapt and pivot at a moment’s notice....

One could argue that this is perhaps one of the most politically charged environments in the history of the United States. Over the past two decades, corporate activism has seemed to be growing exponentially; the difference between actions a company is willing or expected to take even within the last...

Developing a new publishing strategy in the media landscape is daunting. Content reigns supreme, followed by the heft of an established brand. But there’s more to thriving in the digital age. Much, much more. No one knows that better than the senior management team at The Arena Group, a conglomerate...

To put it frankly, the Dirty Dough Cookies franchise is blowing up! Founder Bennett Maxwell has already seen 98 locations purchased. The company will have a presence across 13 different states in just a few short months. That’s the way the cookie crumbles. Dirty Dough Cookies has a devoted following,...