Susan Berfield is an associate editor at BusinessWeek, where she writes profiles and feature stories. She has won several awards for such articles as "I Can Get Your Kid Into an Ivy," "The Making of The Color Purple," and "A CEO and His Son." Before joining BusinessWeek in 1999, she was a senior writer at Asiaweek in Hong Kong. She is a graduate of Brown University and hold a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University.