Jonathan Greenblatt, a serial social entrepreneur with a string of successes, recently spoke with Wharton’s Katherine Klein about the business of social impact. Said Greenblatt: “I think about a social…
While cyber-attacks on large financial institutions tend to garner the most attention, smaller community-based financial businesses are experiencing attempted breaches more often these days from hacktivists and cyber gangs to…
The opening moments of a presentation are critical to its overall success. People form opinions about speakers quickly, and once they do, their first impressions can prove difficult to reverse.…
Developing nations and emerging markets, particularly those that rely upon exports, continue to feel the pinch of lower prices for commodities, including oil, and the specter of higher interest rates,…
“It’s no secret: innovation is difficult for well-established companies. By and large, they are better executors than innovators, and most succeed less through game-changing creativity than by optimizing their existing…
“Taking over as the leader of an existing team can be daunting,” the Liane Davey writes in the Harvard Business Review. “The team’s response to your new processes or style…
The June 2015 jobs report was according to some analysts, “Not too hot, not too cold. But not, alas, just right.” While overall unemployment fell, the picture was more complex…
Martin Reeves and Lisanne Pueschel of the Boston Consulting Group have found that public companies “are perishing sooner than ever before. Since 1950, the total life span of companies and…
Secrecy may be an abstract concept, but there’s a reason we talk about it in these concrete terms. New research from Michael Slepian of Columbia University found that keeping a…
The MIT Technology Review assembled a list of the “smartest” companies. “It might sound difficult to define what makes a smart company, but you know one when you see it.…
