
A burger near Waterloo helped persuade Anurag Bhalla to leave a paid career for Outsized. A decade of building the business has given him plenty to say about trust, talent and the things worth carrying.
The Minneapolis strategist built a career helping organizations navigate change. Her clearest lessons in continuity, stewardship and scale may have come from an old apple tree, a restored farm and a flock of Rambouillet sheep.
Tim Bernstein is the CEO of yet2, an open innovation and technology scouting firm founded in 1999 with backing from DuPont, Procter & Gamble, Honeywell and Siemens. He joined the company in 2001, rose from operator to chief executive, and now spends his days matching corporate R&D needs with technologies and partners pulled from a database of more than five million solution providers. A Yale economist with a Stanford MBA and a Harvard Kennedy School policy degree, he turned an academic thesis on university licensing into a career spent brokering deals others could not find.