In mid-July, Amazon held its annual Prime Day, a shopping extravaganza where holders of Amazon Prime accounts get mega-deals on items ranging from the company’s popular Alexa voice assistant to…
The last decade saw the pendulum swing: Faith in business and corporations to offer secure career paths dwindled, and top talent more frequently leveraged tech-based opportunities to “do their own…
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released a report on contingent labor, or the gig economy. They tabulated the number of workers who held contingent jobs, defined as those…
The basic structure of the sharing economy, as Inc. notes, is to sell or rent unused items or services via digital platforms, without a company having to hold and service…
Business start-ups can easily create newfound winners and unexpected losers. For every entrepreneur who reaches the cover of Forbes, there are innumerable legacy companies — indeed, entire sectors — who can…
Headlines are replete with technology news about the gig economy — the increasing use of contract, freelance, and other paid by the hour workers by companies rather than salaried, full-time…
In our continuing discussions on Davos – looking not only at what happened at The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting recently, but perhaps more importantly, what business leaders globally might expect…
The World Economic Forum held its annual meeting recently in the little Swiss ski town of Davos. There was plenty of snow this year, but no one focused much on hitting…
Can investors get the twin benefits of doing well and doing good? For the various private equity participants, the question has become more urgent over the last several years, particularly…
It’s an age old question across all types of investing: can you have it all? In other words, can investors get the twin benefits of doing well and doing good?…
