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Chief Executive Officers continue to struggle with improving diversity and inclusion on their leadership teams, but despite best efforts, the results are falling short. CEOWORLD magazine turned to the career transition, coaching and assessment experts from Shields Meneley Partners to help today’s CEOs with best practices and to chart a...

In my 30+ years working with executives, I’ve known directive CEOs, creative CEOs, disruptive CEOs, and slow-and-steady CEOs. Today's Chief has to be all those. Leaders set the tone for the corporate culture – and that culture is visible to the whole world. No one understands this or has the...

Digital technology and information – including “big data” – have changed the relationships between businesses and customers in ways that were almost unimaginable a generation ago. Your potential customers and clients know more about your business, and you have the potential to understand more about them than ever before. “Good...

Harvard University, known for its aggressive fundraising campaign, raised an all-time high $1.28 billion in the fiscal year 2017, surpassing fundraising totals from 2016 and topping Stanford University’s fundraising total ($1.13 billion) for a second consecutive year. In 2017, Harvard and Stanford were the only two universities to surpass the...

This extremely volatile list of the wealthiest individuals in the crypto-sphere includes all the most prominent names. And unsurprisingly, top of the prestigious list is Ripple founder Chris Larsen. Based on Larsen's holdings of 5.2 billion Ripple tokens (XRP), Forbes magazine estimated his net worth at nearly $20 billion in...

In 1914, a reporter found himself in Detroit, where he had been assigned to write a piece on Henry Ford. Before the reporter had even got to interview the owner of Ford Automobiles, he spied the man himself, driving down an avenue, in a new Ford Touring car, with his...

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 requires businesses and public entities to make reasonable accommodations to meet the needs of disabled individuals. Most individuals and business owners are aware of the legal requirement to ensure physical locations, such as hotels, restaurants, banks, government facilities, and other public areas have...

The so-called M7 business schools refer to an informal super elite group of US schools that have become household names in business education - Chicago Booth, Columbia, Harvard, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Stanford GSB, and Wharton. Interpret the "M" as you wish - Magic, Magnificent, Monumental, or given their dominance of...

The United States remains the only country in the developed world that does not mandate employers offer paid leave for new mothers, according to the OECD. New mothers in Estonia, Slovak Republic, Finland, and Hungary for instance, are entitled to up to three years worth of paid leave. Mothers in...

Precision medicine is an approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account the variability in each individual.  Diagnostics that can facilitate better patient stratification and identify patients for specific treatment and prevention pave the way for optimized clinical trials. For example, over 50 percent of drugs that fail...