What Makes a Pest Control Company Worth Recommending
What Makes a Pest Control Company Worth Recommending Word-of-mouth still drives a significant share of business in the home services industry, but what actually earns that recommendation has evolved. Homeowners today expect more than a technician who shows up and sprays; they want clear communication, follow-up, and a sense that the company understands the specific…
Read MoreExecutive Compensation Trends Among Utility Infrastructure Leaders
Executive Compensation Trends Among Utility Infrastructure Leaders Compensation for senior leadership at large utility contractors has drawn increased attention as these companies have grown into some of the largest employers in the infrastructure economy. Boards overseeing these organizations now weigh pay decisions against multi-year project backlogs, safety performance, and workforce retention rather than short-term revenue…
Read MoreInside the Colcom Foundation’s Mission to Protect Natural Resources
The Colcom Foundation describes its central purpose in direct terms: fostering an environment healthy enough to sustain quality of life for Americans by confronting the causes and effects of overpopulation. That mission, unchanged since the organization’s founding in 1996, shapes every grant the Pittsburgh based philanthropy awards. Founder Cordelia S. May built her worldview around…
Read MoreKelcy Warren Steps Back as Energy Transfer Eyes Its Future
Kelcy Warren stepped down as chief executive of Energy Transfer in 2020, but he has hardly disappeared from the company he built. Warren now serves as executive chairman and chairman of the board, a perch from which he continues to shape the direction of a business that operates nearly 125,000 miles of pipeline across the…
Read MoreColcom Foundation Balances National and Regional Giving
National environmental causes tend to draw the most attention from major foundations, but the Colcom Foundation has built a reputation for pairing that broader mission with steady support closer to home. Alongside its focus on population and ecological balance, the Pittsburgh-based organization funds conservation projects and cultural institutions throughout its home region. A Dual Focus…
Read MoreThe Mission and Origins of Colcom Foundation Explained
Colcom Foundation exists to address a problem its founder identified long before it became a common topic of public conversation: the strain that human population growth places on natural ecosystems. Cordelia S. May began focusing on this issue in 1952, at age twenty three, when she started supporting family planning out of concern for the…
Read MoreJP Conte’s West Campus Gift Carries the Weight of a First-Generation Story
JP Conte arrived at Colgate University in 1981 as a first-generation college student. His parents, who had emigrated from France and Cuba, raised their family in Brooklyn and later New Jersey under modest circumstances. Four decades after his graduation, Conte committed $25 million to the university. The resulting gift names the Social Center at the…
Read MoreThe Research Behind Dr. Andrew Jacono’s Deep Plane Facelift
Plenty of cosmetic techniques circulate on reputation alone. Dr. Andrew Jacono took a different route with his Minimal Access Deep-Plane Extended facelift, publishing formal outcomes data rather than leaving the technique’s results to word of mouth. In 2011, Jacono’s findings appeared in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal, documenting results from 153 patients who underwent the procedure.…
Read MoreInside the Referral Network Behind Greg Soros’s Podcast Studio
Word of mouth built Podcraft Media Lab, and it keeps building it. Roughly 40 percent of the Austin studio’s business now comes from referrals inside the audio content world, including major podcast networks that hand off their most prestigious projects to founder Greg Soros and his team. For a company that never chased a large-scale…
Read MoreKelcy Warren Built a Pipeline Empire From Scratch
Kelcy Warren started small. In 1996, he and co-founder Ray Davis launched a Texas company with roughly 200 miles of intrastate natural gas pipeline. Today that company, Energy Transfer, operates nearly 125,000 miles of pipe and moves close to a third of the nation’s natural gas and crude oil. The early years were lean. Kelcy…
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