It’s easy to make lofty pronouncements and promises, but are you and your company walking the talk? Investors are looking and listening closely.

Even when she was younger, Liesel Pritzker Simmons says she was aware of her good fortune. Born to one of the wealthiest families in America, she knows her family’s success afforded her ...

Elumelu, joined by Liesel Pritzker Simmons (see p. 86), suggested partnering with a financial firm to create a fund and taking a stake that would allow it to scale its data-building capabilities.

Now she is 39, and lives in Greater Boston, Massachusettes with husband Ian Simmons, who she married in 2011. She goes by her marital name of Liesel Pritzker Simmons – leaving her child star ...

In the 1990s, she was a successful child actress. Now, after striking out on her own, an heir to one of America's most famous fortunes is putting that money to good work.