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As of April 30, 2023, Rafaela Aponte-Diamant was the wealthiest person in Switzerland, with an estimated net worth of 31.3 billion U.S. dollars, followed by Gianluigi Aponte (No. 2, $31.3 billion), Ernesto Bertarelli (No. 3, $9.5 billion); and Ivan Glasenberg (No. 4, $9.2 billion). Guillaume Pousaz is the fifth-richest person in Switzerland, with a...

Women working toward senior-level positions face various challenges: biases, the gender pay gap, and long-standing corporate cultures that aren’t welcoming to women in the C-suite.   Although many companies are revising their views on women in leadership, progress is still slow around the globe. A 2020 Mercer review of women in...

As the number of women in leadership and C-suite management positions incrementally grow, long-standing barriers are withholding them from reaching gender parity with their male peers in a number of sectors especially in the pharmaceutical sector.  The landscape of women in leadership is changing, and according to more recent sources,...

There has been a marked increase in the uptakes of dual citizenship in the past few years. Economic loss incurred during the pandemic caused many countries to draw up attractive investment policies called citizenship by investment or golden visas for wealthy individuals, which involved eye-catching giveaways, including dual citizenship. Dual...

The Italian investment scenario is blossoming despite the protracted spells of economic debacle suffered from the onset of the pandemic. Experts state that there remains a lot of potential in one of the top 10 largest economies in the world. An investor looks beyond a nation's tourist and socio-cultural appeal;...

In my first article on the importance of Communication in the tourism industry, I chose to address common mistakes made by tourism professionals. Their main characteristic is that they are usually very undervalued but -at the same time- they cost a lot. The problem is that most people don't care...

Given the extensive headlines about Amazon, Disney, and Starbucks ordering employees back to the office, you might think that the back-to-office return is inevitable. Yet do such headlines represent the reality of a new wave, or are they just clickbait for anxious workers who want to avoid the threat of...

The dust from the Silicon Valley Bank collapse is nearly settled, but as we look at the new landscape, we need to take a hard look at what can be learned from it. For the good of us all, I want to shorten the learning curve and lay out the...

From preventing natural disasters to improving supply chain efficiency and tracking automated teller machines, many Global Positioning System (GPS) oriented applications have been adding enormous value in our world. You are currently living a safer and more convenient life due to GPS. Without GPS, it will be challenging for you to make...

Every year, news flash lists of the world's most powerful passports but do not always explain what makes them so. The Monegasque passport, for instance, is one of the exclusive passports in the world; it has been issued to a few thousand only, and most of them are high net-worth...