FROM HIGH TECH TO HIGH MINDED
Read Published Article Ah, family memories—1960s antiwar rallies in Berkeley and trailing farmworker activist César Chávez as an 11-year-old, with his socially progressive parents. Add the weekly trip to Peet’s Coffee to buy a bag of freshly roasted coffee beans with his father.
Barking up the Right Tree
A botanist and a pediatrician follow their noses to chocolate Read Published Article As a kid, Deborah Langsam used to stare in the windows of the bakeries in Brooklyn, N.Y., and dream of what delicacy she would buy if she had all the money in the world.
FROM ONE GRILLING TO ANOTHER
Read Published Article Alejandro Benes vividly remembers standing in front of the White House on Oct. 20, 1973, with a group of friends, after President Richard Nixon had ordered the firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Benes, then a college freshman, and friends simply “were watching as people were going in and […]
ANOTHER KIND OF REWARD
Ex-consultant now helps orphans with AIDS Read Published Article Most people wouldn’t walk away from a high-paying job. But Kim Ogden did. “It was time,” she says with a gentle laugh. Ogden, 44, who had risen to partner at Bain & Co., the Boston-based management consulting firm, headed off at the end of 2002, […]
LEARNING LIFE’S LESSONS
Ex-mortgage banker Cliff Stevenson is back in the classroom Read Published Article It was the day of his ex-business partner’s funeral, and Cliff Stevenson found a flier stuck in his door advertising a teaching degree at a nearby college. It struck a nerve, reminding him of his first career choice, which he had bypassed decades […]
The Best Ways To Find Health Insurance if You Are Self-Employed In 2012
Read Published Article If you work for yourself, finding health insurance is a big headache. While there’s no holy grail, there are ways to navigate the maze and find good coverage at manageable prices. Whether it is affordable, of course, is a crapshoot. That depends on a myriad of factors–where you live, the ages and […]
Why Temporary Work Is Worth It
Read Published Article Today was the day. I put away the last vestige of the ho, ho, ho season—the festive bowl of holiday cards with pictures of smiling kids and pets, along with the occasional annual letters detailing whirlwind lives.
Train like Muhammad Ali: Read These Tips For Boomer Entrepreneurs
Read Published Article On a sun-kissed California day, I dragged my chair across the porch of the Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausalito and pulled it up next to 71-year-old Randal Charlton, a newly minted 2011 Purpose Prize winner. He had already sunk into a chair for a brief break in a whirlwind weekend of meetings […]
