CEO Advisory

A recent report reveals that the United Kingdom ranked 41st out of 88 countries around the world for 4G mobile internet service speeds, based on data from Open Signal. The speed of an average broadband download in the United Kingdom is below that of Mexico, Ireland, and Greece. And significantly...

It's not a big surprise that Sweden is the best country to be a working woman, according to the 2018 edition of the Economist’s glass-ceiling index, which took over the top ranking from Iceland. The glass-ceiling index measures how well OECD countries perform when it comes to equality for working...

Leonardo da Vinci, perhaps the greatest of the Renaissance masters, once observed, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” While da Vinci had incredible foresight, he probably didn’t envision today’s business environment when he uttered those words more than 500 years ago. While most CEOs would agree that simplicity in the workplace...

For the first time, Amsterdam, the Dutch capital, has entered the UBS list of eight cities on the verge of a real-estate bubble — and guess what, none of them are in the United States. The number one on the bubble-risk list is Toronto, followed by Stockholm, Munich, Vancouver, Sydney,...

Ultimate Software has been ranked number three on the list of America's 100 best companies to work for in 2018, that's according to Fortune Magazine. Taking the top spot for the first time: Salesforce, the cloud computing company, jumped to No. 1 from No. 8 followed by Wegmans Food Markets....

The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University's Online Hybrid MBA program ranked No. 1 on the inaugural "top 25 online MBA programs in 2018" list by Poets&Quants, a leading resource for coverage of graduate business education. Only 25 programs across the U.S. were ranked. Rounding out the top...

On January 30, 2017, Facebook issued a communication that effectively banned adverts relating to cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings (ICOs) on its social media pages. This move was followed by numerous concerns raised by its users regarding misleading fraudulent cryptocurrency adverts. While many users have welcomed the steps taken by...

The department of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been ranked as the best institute in the United States for students who want to major in civil engineering, according to an analysis by College Factual. Civil engineers with a degree from MIT are...

Once again, China was the largest producer of gold in the world, mining 453.5 metric tons in 2016, according to the latest GFMS Gold Survey by Thomson Reuters. Gold mine production in China was also higher with 453.5 metric tons of gold produced in 2016 compared to 450.1 metric tons...

The Super Bowl reached viewers around the world, but Olympic advertisers will be communicating with a much broader audience from diverse cultures who will bring with them a different set of interests and emotions. To persuade such a multicultural audience, advertising will need to seek commonalities of the mind and...