The Popped Kernel

We recently teamed up with Perla Ni, founder and former managing editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), to write an articl...

Nando Parrado blew us away on Wednesday at the World Business Forum. His speech caught most everybody by surprise – amidst talks on leaders...

Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics and celebrated economist, kicked off the second day of the World Business Forum inside New York's...

Wendy Kopp , CEO of Teach for America, was the breakout star today at the World Business Forum inside New York’s Radio City Music Hall – and...

We are thrilled to be a featured blog of the World Business Forum again this year. * Impressive is the lineup of speakers: Al Gore, Jack We...

We recently sat down with Parag Khanna to kick start our “Up and Comers” interview series, in which we talk to up-and-coming luminaries in ...

Today we’re launching “Up and Comers” - a series of interviews with young influentials (think Crain’s Business 40 under 40) in business ...

Here at The Popped Kernel, we aim to humanize leaders in business and government by understanding who they are as people. So when we heard t...

We recently sat down with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, the fifth most popular website – only Google, Facebook, Youtube, and Yahoo are ...

We recently sat down with Alex Counts, President and CEO of Grameen Foundation . If "Grameen" sounds familiar to you, that’s becau...

There's quite an uproar in Canada right now. A lot of Canadians disagree with their country’s Olympic motto: “Own the podium.” Behind ...

One thing we often ponder – and that our conversation with Dominic Barton surfaced yet again – is the question of nature vs. nurture. These ...

We recently sat down with Dominic Barton, the Worldwide Managing Director of consulting firm McKinsey & Company (that’s the firm’s de fa...