The Power of Ideas

Edited by Janelle Nanos

Photographs by Jeff Brown. Styling by Maryelle O’Rourke/Team.

Ideas have long been Boston’s most powerful export—our thought leaders are driving new developments in everything from technology to energy, culture to politics, education to healthcare. Most recently, a new generation of leaders has begun to collaborate with these innovators to address challenges in the public arena as well. To celebrate this unprecedented convergence of minds, we shine a light on Boston’s new power class: the visionaries, idealists, and thinkers among us whose insights are transforming the way we live, work, learn, and play—not only here in Boston, but around the world.

Icons & Visionaries

The Fixers

Leaders & Idealists

The Tastemakers

Scientists & Thinkers

Entrepreneurs & Innovators