Some people spend their days thinking about how to get ahead in life. Then there are those, like Anna Maria Chávez, who …
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Focus On and Off the Field
As the head football coach at Rutgers University for 11 seasons, Greg Schiano spent plenty of time reassuring worried parents and grandparents that he would look after their sons while they played for him. “These are big guys, …
A Game Plan for the Future
As a skilled knuckleball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox for 17 years, Tim Wakefield was methodical, deliberate and steady as he took his position on the mound. Turns out, those same skills have served him well off the field and …
Day by Day, Aiming to Do Better
The innocence of youth was in full bloom when Alvin Rohrs—then a 25-year-old with little real-world work experience—was asked in 1982 to step in and run Enactus, a fledgling nonprofit. With the boundless enthusiasm of someone …
A Steady Hand on the Throttle
The Pragmatist: the first in a series celebrating planning and financial pragmatism