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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...

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...