Richard W. (Dick) Evans Jr. will retire in March 2016 as chairman and CEO of San Antonio-based Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc. Over his 44-year tenure, he helped Frost Bank navigate the difficulties of the 1980s and emerge as one of Texas' largest financial institutions. He discusses what he has...

Adrián Mijares Elizondo is CEO of Cinépolis USA. The subsidiary of Morelia, Mexico-based Cinépolis relocated to Addison, Texas, from Los Angeles earlier this year. The parent company is Mexico's predominant movie theater chain. It has operations in 12 other countries, with a concentration in...

Ronen Avraham is the Thomas Shelton Maxey Professor in Law at the University of Texas Law School, where his primary academic interest is the economic analysis of torts and health care law. He created and published the Database of State Tort Law Reform, now in its fifth edition. Avraham is a...

Rad Weaver, 42, has been chief executive officer of McCombs Partners, the investment arm of McCombs Enterprises, since 2006. He oversees investment strategies, including direct investments in private businesses encompassing a variety of industries, including oil and gas. He also serves as chair...

Alan D. Viard is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit research organization, and an expert on tax policy. He outlines his plan, developed with Eric Toder of the Urban Institute, for revising the tax code to make it less attractive for U.S. companies to shelter...