Features Region: Northeast

Every day can be rewarding for Tom Griffin when he’s out and about New York City or the rest of the United States. He’ll pass an independent auto parts retailer and see the parking lot teeming with customers. Or maybe it’ll be a software startup that’s about to introduce the latest app. Or a franchisee-owned […]

Treat the patient first and a successful business will follow. It seems like a motto that should be common in the healthcare industry, but with taxes, bills, overhead and other budget strains, financial concerns are often the first thought with patients being second. Such was the experience of Tom Guild and John Heller, who, in […]

No matter where the innovations take place, it’s still the Wild West on the autonomous vehicle front. Companies worldwide are in a high-stakes race to create, fine-tune and commercialize the first self-driving vehicles, sometimes by forging partnerships with entities with whom they normally compete. As often happens in new industries, legislation and regulation lag behind […]

When a teenager works at American Eagle Outfitters Inc., they expect certain things: a store discount, new friends and a biweekly paycheck.  Recently, though, retail employees have been given the chance to gain something unexpected: a college scholarship. Made possible through a $5 million endowment from the American Eagle Outfitters Foundation, the scholarships are for […]

Tom Greco didn’t see this coming when he was in law school. But 40 years later, he says the internship opportunity at the American Bankers Association allowed him to build a varied and enriching legal career. Now senior vice president and senior counsel for contracts and technology, Greco helps the ABA and its members move […]

With socially responsible commerce on the rise, consumers are becoming more and more conscious of not only what they buy, but from whom. For many businesses, this means putting more emphasis on integrity. “It’s about understanding what people’s lived realities are, striving to elevate ethical decision-making in all our endeavors and really committing to what […]

Having learned to fly before he could drive, Timothy Adelman says a good pilot is always thinking several steps ahead. Emergency procedures. In-flight processes and protocols. Potential weather-related problems. Those are what they keep in mind. Likewise, he says anticipation and preparation are extremely helpful qualities for in-house lawyers, and he does his best to […]

When going to work at Sanofi Pasteur each day, Thomas Ghignone keeps one goal in mind that’s both ambitious and simply expressed. “We want to live in a world where no one suffers or dies from a vaccine-preventable disease,” Ghignone says. “It’s what drives us every day. However, we’re working with live organisms here, and […]

In the world of investments, Teresa Bernstein says navigating high finance is a lot like swimming in open water: You must frequently look up for a landmark to guide you—or else it’s easy to veer off course or get swept away by the current. Bernstein would know. With three titles at the Washington, D.C.-based firm […]

What better way to prove you can swim then diving into a turbulent set of river rapids in early April? Jeff Neuman’s first days at Tronox in April 2018 provided the legal equivalent of such opportunities. No calm lap pools in sight. Leaving Honeywell International after 16 years to take the legal reins of global […]