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An environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy focuses on how a company can become more socially responsible. The pandemic shifted people’s thinking. People care more about the world they’ll leave to future generations and worry about how their spending impacts the world at large.  While an ESG strategy impacts all generations in your customer base,

China is a market of one billion consumers becoming ever most prosperous. We have to access that market. It’s where much of our future growth will come from. To access the market, we have been willing to do what it takes – embark on joint ventures, share intellectual property – whatever. So claimed a C-suite

On December 8, 2007, I experienced one of the most dangerous moments of my time as an Apache helicopter pilot fighting against the Taliban. But the lessons I learned from that experience helped us win that day and kept me and my men alive in future engagements with the enemy. Even though those were combat

For years now, there’s been a lot of discourse around the real value of a college degree. A few decades ago, conventional wisdom told us that a four-year degree would just about guarantee someone a well-paying job in their field of study. And for a while, that was true for many. Undergraduate degrees opened many

Very few people like confrontation. It often connotes negative reactions and poor outcomes, primarily based on previous experience with it. And the overwhelming majority of people, specifically leaders, shy away from it, hoping the other person will just “get it,” see the light and change their behavior. But, if we are to learn anything, we

While it’s long been true that fast-growth firms face extraordinary enterprise-wide challenges as they scale, the ongoing upheaval in the labor market has sharpened the focus of senior leaders on one particular business function, human resources. HR is an area that has become increasingly critical as companies seek to bolster their recruitment and retention strategies.

The hospitality industry is highly competitive, so it’s important that it moves with the times. Additionally, customer expectations are always shifting based on new technologies that are introduced. Obsolete systems will have a negative impact on your bottom line. Whether you’re a hotel owner or you run a restaurant, it’s crucial that you stay ahead

The Wharton School takes the prestigious title of the world’s business school for 2023, according to the CEOWORLD magazine. London Business School earned itself a respectable second place, with MIT Sloan School of Management ranked third. The 2023 rankings placed Harvard Business School in fourth ahead of Saïd Business School (Oxford Saïd or SBS) in

Josh Dickinson takes over as CFO and senior vice president of Schneider Electric’s North American region understanding that, while his non-accounting background and broadening purview will take him into everything from strategic M&A to talent management, he can’t lose track of cash management or of the “golden screw.” You know—that one tiny component whose lack

An indispensable aspect of research is Literature Review. It is always there unless you are not serious about the quality of the research. But what exactly is a Literature Review? To put it simply, it is a review of the existing scholarship on a particular area of interest. Often regarded as a major step towards

One of the most popularly opted professional certificate programs in the world is the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program. In this program, the participant is taught a range of subjects concerning advanced investment analysis, such as economics, portfolio management, and corporate finance. Presently, it has the highest level of recognition so far as finance is

Getting a paper published in a good journal is an accomplishment. It takes a lot of research, time, and analysis to come up with a quality research paper – and that, mind you, is not an easy task. Unless you aim to get your papers published in any of those unauthenticated, un-peer-reviewed journals, research papers

2023 has almost arrived, and the rolling evidence of a recession arrived with it. Economic downturn demands resilience from business leaders. They are on a critical mission to survive the recession and thrive afterward. Recession brings diverse terms to diverse groups of businesses. There is a group of businesses that thrive in a recession, such as

With tremendous growth comes an abundance of opportunity, and the nonprofit industry in the U.S. has shown exactly that. Overall, nonprofit giving had a growth rate of 4 percent over 2021, with environmental and human rights-related causes growing the most. Opportunities to do more, help more, and be more are at a peak, and nonprofit

The leaders of big companies are getting a lot of criticism nowadays, especially as supposed “superstar” firms are laying off people and preparing for recession.  A recent article in CEO World told them flatly, “You suck at innovation.”  It’s true that large organizations struggle to develop new products and services as well as startups do. 

As talk of an impending recession gets louder, especially following the recent stark warning from Jamie Dimon, there’s a genuine threat that companies will prioritize cost-cutting over Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging (DEIB) progress. More than just another line item, creating a workplace where everyone belongs is becoming mission-critical to building a resilient workforce and business for

Many organizations are facing unprecedented and conflicting challenges as they determine their talent and reward strategies for 2023. A January 2022 Conference Board C-Suite Challenges Survey reported that the primary internal business challenge facing senior leaders is the attraction and retention of talent. This is juxtaposed against a more recent October 2022 KPMG survey that

There’s conflict in change. And right now, we’re going through a large change, composed of many smaller transitions. Whether we’re talking about national politics, social and economic models, individuals or companies, so much of our world is in transition…and conflict. When trying to better understand how these transitions and conflicts work, I find the 3

It seems like there isn’t a day that goes by where we don’t hear about layoffs in the tech industry. In some instances, job cuts are necessary—especially with a recession looming—but they should be the last resort. As the founder of an insurtech company, I’ve watched recent developments with a mix of sadness and frustration.

Many aspects of the workplace have evolved in the past century, with some accelerating in the past few years, catalyzed by the massive workplace disruptions wrought by the COVID pandemic.  One facet that has proven surprisingly resistant to change, however, is companies’ approach to paid time off (PTO). At last, there are signs of an