{"id":2664,"date":"2025-11-04T19:41:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/?page_id=2664"},"modified":"2025-11-17T22:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:39:05","slug":"featured-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/index.php\/featured-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"gb-element-86a9188f\">\n<div class=\"gb-element-0c2fd19f\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-query cmu-post-grid is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"columns-2 wp-block-post-template is-layout-grid wp-container-core-post-template-is-layout-28b052f3 wp-block-post-template-is-layout-grid\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-3882 page type-page status-publish has-post-thumbnail\">\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-736d1967 stretch-link\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/index.php\/featured-stories\/a-reluctant-entrepreneur\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data-media-id=\"3872\" class=\"gb-media-2055b999\" alt=\"Steven Meersman leaning against a railing in the Tepper School of Business.\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Steven-Meersman.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Steven-Meersman.webp 1920w, https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Steven-Meersman-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Steven-Meersman-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Steven-Meersman-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Steven-Meersman-1536x864.webp 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wrapper-50-50\">\n<h2 class=\"gb-text gb-text-dd4db2a1 growing-underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/index.php\/featured-stories\/a-reluctant-entrepreneur\/\">A Reluctant Entrepreneur<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-3fb4fe77\">Steven Meersman (MBA 2010) reveals how his Tepper School optimization education helped him co-found Zenob\u0113, a global leader in battery and electric vehicle solutions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-3679 page type-page status-publish has-post-thumbnail\">\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-736d1967 stretch-link\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/index.php\/featured-stories\/calculated-risks-unchecked-gratitude\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data-media-id=\"3870\" class=\"gb-media-2055b999\" alt=\"Dave Zinsner leaning against a wall at Intel with the words &quot;Intel Makes Chips&quot; above him.\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dave-Zinsner.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dave-Zinsner.webp 1920w, https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dave-Zinsner-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dave-Zinsner-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dave-Zinsner-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dave-Zinsner-1536x864.webp 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wrapper-50-50\">\n<h2 class=\"gb-text gb-text-dd4db2a1 growing-underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/index.php\/featured-stories\/calculated-risks-unchecked-gratitude\/\">Calculated Risks, Unchecked Gratitude<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-3fb4fe77\">David Zinsner (B.S. 1991) shares how his ability to lead corporate transformations stems from a supportive CMU education and the lasting impact of mentorship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2664","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4085,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2664\/revisions\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.tepper.cmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}