CEO Advisory

Hickory in North Carolina was recently named the “Top Tinsel Town In America,” on a Realtor.com list of the 10 surprising cities worth visiting for the holidays, followed by Eugene, Oregon and Buffalo, NY. Pittsburgh was the 4th most festive city for the winter holidays. Other cities ranked on the...

The role of CFO (chief financial officer) has been expanding in recent years at a rather rapid rate. The modern CFO is more than the company bean counter, he or she is a partner to the CEO, a strategic advisor to the company’s operations, and an analytics-driven leader for the...

Life gets busy, and one thing we can all agree on is that there never seems to have enough time in the day to get to the bottom of our ToDo list. Finding a balance between work and life is a challenge for the best of us. As a father...

Employees engagement is a simple phrase but carries a weighty meaning! People have used a number of jargons here and there to single out its meaning with little success. But what does it really mean? Well, there is no single definition, but you would agree that it’s a way of...

Amazon's chief Jeff Bezos topped Forbes annual list of the biggest wealth gainers. His net worth grew $33.8 billion in 2017. Bezos is now worth $99.9 billion, enough to make him the richest person in the world. A decade ago, on the 2007 Billionaires List, he had a net worth...

With a fortune of $5.5 billion, George Lucas is the richest celebrity in America, according to the Forbes list, which determined the net worths of the wealthiest celebrities in the US. All in all, the top 10 richest celebrities in the U.S. boast a combined fortune of $18 billion, up...

Business plan is a key ingredient or a blueprint which paves the path of a business idea to become a successful luxury brand. It is a base for strategies that help in tracking the development curve of the business. Business plan being the essence of a successful business should be...

Sushma Sharma, the founder and CEO of Konversai, is on a mission to “democratize knowledge” and make the world a better place by facilitating meaningful connections and conversations. Her company, a live video-based knowledge-sharing platform that connects seekers and providers of knowledge or specialized information, enables one-on-one interactions with higher...

The term “brand equity” gets thrown around marketing circles a lot. You may have come across it and even wondered what it meant. Investopedia defines brand equity as “a value premium that a company generates from a product with a recognizable name when compared to a generic equivalent.” Coca-Cola, Costco,...

India is a place that is fast growing, and there are many things an entrepreneur should keep in mind if they want to expand their business to India. How many small and medium businesses are moving from various parts of the world to India, and they know the importance of...