Big Business

The first ever recorded e-commerce sale in human history is generally believed to have taken place on August 11, 1994. Then, 21-year-old entrepreneur Dan Kohn sold a music CD from his New Hampshire based website to a friend in Philadelphia, using encryption technology to protect and to charge the man’s...

Apart from traditional investing options, like stocks and bonds, there are a plethora of alternative investment tools that every business leader should be acquainted with. Alternative investments are rapidly evolving investment vehicles. These options include a broad spectrum of investments, each of which has its distinct features. Although the accessibility...

Deploying human capital has become an integral part of today’s company operations. While offering an employee the perfect job in another city does not come with the obligation of providing relocation incentives, these packages are invaluable to your workforce. Supporting your employees during these critical moments is the best way...

Can you imagine being laid off more than once, struggling to make ends meet, and being left in the lurch by companies you once trusted? For entrepreneur Connie Bobo, those challenges have all been part and parcel of her journey. There was a time Bobo had just $27 in her...

Wealthy clients are traditionally a part of the market that only concerns a few of the marketers. Today, we will talk about how to connect with them through a physical store. You provide particular products and services The worst thing for a consumer to realize is that they are just...

Stinginess is an issue for many people and it actually never helps to improve your prestige. The sad thing about those who are unwilling to spend money is that they often try to hide it because they believe it is a bad thing. The funny part is that the harder...

When you think of an organization and the processes, the buck usually stops on the CEO’s table. Recent happenings, especially the COVID-19 pandemic, have made this glaring. Only organizations that were primed for eventualities and whose CEOs have resilience as one of their important traits to handle tumultuous situations survived....

Skyscanner has appointed Laurence Tracol as CFO. Laurence joined the global travel marketplace Skyscanner as VP of Finance in September 2020. Reporting to CEO John Mangelaars, Laurence will lead Skyscanner’s global finance function, including financial planning and analysis, M&A and business analytics and reporting across multiple locations and jurisdictions in...

Many of the challenges leaders face when facilitating in-person meetings, like keeping the energy of the group up, are amplified online. But, there are ways to cultivate creative energy between participants remotely. If you’re leading an online meeting, your job is to bring creative energy into the remote workspaces of...

Most of us dislike the term 'managing up' intensely; for many of us it conjures up images of greasy-pole climbers and upwardly-mobile politico types.  We don't like to think of ourselves in this way.  Instead, we like to think our work will speak for itself or we believe it’s our...