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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...

Among your many responsibilities as CEO, none is more critical than that of brand champion. Internally you’re the visionary, inspiring the organization to live out its purpose. Externally – like it or not – you’re the keeper and communicator of your brand’s promise, the beacon and bellwether looked to by customers,...

Owning the title ‘boss’ often connotes emotions not all that positive. We’ve all had a friend tell us of their “boss from hell,” or times they’ve had an awkward disagreement leading to a not-so-sweet atmosphere, but the relationship between boss and employee is something that’s certainly changed in recent years....

Successful CEOs are increasingly seeing the benefit of engaging with their supply chain on environmental issues. Recent examples include companies such as Apple, Bank of America, Honda, Microsoft and Unilever, which have been named as ‘Supplier Engagement’ leaders by leading environmental disclosure platform CDP. This means they have made the...

There are a multitude of reasons why a founder may choose to exit the business they have built. Based on our experience advising hundreds of online business owners, we’ve compiled four of the most common reasons for exiting and why it’s so vital to have an exit strategy in place...

The New Year’s celebration is long over. The ball dropped, crews cleaned confetti from the streets, and now we’re all sobering up to the realization that it’s tax season. While taxes are an annual “tradition” at every company, one survey found that 71 percent of companies outsource tax preparation — and another 30...

We are all aware of the ever-increasing pace of change in the 21st Century but broadly speaking we are still identifying and developing leaders in the same old way. Unsurprisingly, if we look around the world at national, corporate, public sector and not-for-profit leadership, excellent leaders are few and far...

In the ever-changing world of new technology, it is tempting for leaders to hang on to the familiar and play it safe - sticking to what we already know. However, as leaders, we have a responsibility to learn continually and to understand new ways of doing business, to sell and...

Being a courageous leader is about more than just making a decision and moving full-speed ahead. It also means having the courage to completely change the game. We all have some level of fear. Courage is confronting this fear and taking action. Everyone seems to want to grow their company...