Sophie Ireland

Having life insurance isn’t the same as having enough of it. Plenty of people have a policy through work, or one they bought years ago, without ever checking whether it would actually support their family if something happened to them.

A technology executive with nearly two decades of enterprise delivery experience explains why AI initiatives stall after successful pilots – and what organizations must change to turn experimentation into measurable business value.

From mobile apps to enterprise AI to a $10 billion bet on biology, Ben Lamm keeps building in a different domain each time.

Long before outdoor living became one of the biggest trends in home design, Jesse Francis was paying attention to the way people interacted with the spaces around them. Growing up in Nashville, Tennessee, he noticed how certain parks, neighborhoods, and gardens naturally brought people together while others felt forgotten. Those early observations stayed with him and eventually became the foundation of a career in landscape architecture. Today, Jesse combines creativity with practical design to create outdoor spaces that are built for everyday life and designed to last.

Learn how the loan amount estimated by a gold loan calculator is linked to your gold loan interest rate, and why considering both together can help you make a better borrowing decision.

In an interview with The Economist in late July, Elon Musk claimed that “money will be irrelevant a decade from now”, contradicting the predictions of numerous experts.

PLAN-B NET ZERO is expanding beyond its core energy business by taking on selected business processes for external partners. The company is using the systems and operational capabilities it has built for its own customer business to support companies that want to outsource parts of their day-to-day operations.

Businesses often assume that as technology becomes more advanced, operations have to become more complicated. More systems, more processes, more meetings, and more layers of approval are often seen as unavoidable. Rami Hammouri has spent more than a decade challenging that idea. Throughout his career leading enterprise IT infrastructure and digital transformation initiatives, he has found that the best solutions are often the simplest ones.

In late August 2026, the State Policy Network’s annual meeting convenes in Orlando, and one of its panels asks a question most philanthropies fighting antisemitism have been slow to ask out loud. Not what happens on college quads, where the cameras already are, but what is taught in America’s elementary and secondary schools, who is paying to shape it, and whether parents have any practical way to find out. The panel, on transparency, parental power, and exposing foreign influence in K-12 education, is convened by the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, and it marks a deliberate move by Adam Milstein to push his campaign several years upstream of the college campus.

Most people do not choose their own education path before they can drive a car. Jermaine Gassaway did. Growing up in Washington, DC, he was assigned to a high school based on his zip code, one he and his family believed would not serve him well. At 14, he wrote to the Board of Education asking to transfer. The request was denied.