Dan Morrell

How an alumni connection helped bring a WWII soldier home after 73 years

Megumi Gordon and the impossible adventure of building a business in Cuba’s ascendant private sector

Former Army helicopter pilot Matthew Brady, founder and CEO of Pershing Barracks Capital, discusses his battlefield experience—and how it shaped his approach to business

How Wally Eamer helped broker a historic peace in the forests of British Columbia

At just 18, Marblehead’s Ben Goldberg is touring Europe, hanging out with Mark Wahlberg, and cementing his status as hip-hop’s next big star.

As the director of the division of violence and injury prevention for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Leonard Lee ’82 uses an entrepreneurial spirit harnessed at Johnson & Wales to take care of business.

How Carlos Miguel Prieto conducted a post-Katrina comeback for the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra

James Robinson says that in the modern period, greedy leaders and institutional corruption, rather than geography, explain why some nations fail.

The science nerds behind Cambridge-based Lamplighter are betting it all on complex flavors.

A little bit before 10 p.m. on July 13, 2013, Kelly Brown Douglas’s phone started buzzing with texts. The verdict in the case of the state of Florida vs. George Zimmerman—who was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin—was in. Douglas ’79, a religion professor at Baltimore’s Goucher College and an Episcopalian priest, turned on the TV and watched in stunned silence as Zimmerman was exonerated.

Three years ago, Gene Williams (MBA 1987) helped two parents set up a drug company to save their son's life. Their new patient-driven drug development blueprint may just end up saving the pharmaceutical industry too.

Two years ago, after Jay Bradner made a remarkable breakthrough—the discovery of a molecule that, in mice, appeared to trick certain cancer cells into becoming normal cells—he did something unusual.

Podcast with one of the world's foremost experts on innovation

Waltham’s Shin Lim could be the biggest name in magic since David Blaine

Jay Rogers set out to start a car company. He may have launched an industrial revolution, too.