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When it comes to getting a job after you graduate, it is interesting that there is a big disconnect between the perception of business schools and employers. Recent surveys from Gallup and Inside Higher Ed's 2014 suggest that almost all (ninety-six percent) university administrators, college presidents, and chief academic officers ...

When planning your recruiting efforts, there are a number of things you can do that can help you attract just the right applicants for the interview. There seems to be a major disconnect between what a job description lays out and what matters to prospective candidates. If job description is...

A few years ago one of my companies signed on a big client that I was really excited about. Even though I was very confident in the team I assigned to this business, I still insisted on being very hands-on in their management. I am always so committed to excellence...

Beyond the most well-known female at the top of technology companies, Meg Whitman, the president and chief executive officer of PC giant Hewlett Packard (HP), Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer, Virginia Rometty CEO at IBM, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg --- Does technology sector welcome women? According to the...

The days of exclusively recruiting and rearing internal talent are over; just six percent of respondents said their organizations have no senior-level executives from outside of their own organizations. The average senior executive team is made up of internal candidates (45 percent), external candidates (38 percent) and executives from another...

When asked about their organization’s preparedness to replace key leaders, the survey uncovered a surprising dichotomy. Almost six in 10 respondents said their company had a succession plan in place, but 80 percent said their company would need at least a year to replace them if they were to leave....

Last year saw a big rise of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and cloud-based tech companies, and 45 of them went public on Wall Street – including well-known startups like Marketo, RetailMeNot and Zulily – the third highest number of IPOs in one year, since the dot-com era. Even more surprising is that...

I rounded up a few notable technology startups for entrepreneurs to find inspiration. Some of these exciting and promising tech startups may thrive for years, some may get acquired and some may go nowhere --- I think you should keep an eye on. Here are few promising tech startups: Nimble...

I'm lucky enough to know a number of remarkably successful CEOs and other senior executives in business world, I can tell you that they work hard. Work really, really hard, as there is no substitute for hard work. So what do successful entrepreneurs and executives do, and why it works?...

Before you uncork the champagne to celebrate winning that big Government contract you might want to stop and think for a moment.  Would your information technology systems and security infrastructure be able to stand up to a hostile, advanced hacking campaign aimed at gaining access to your newest project?  Are...