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Can social entrepreneurship contribute to a better future for the world? Paths of Greece is a Social Co-operative Enterprise that was founded 12 years ago. Fivos Tsaravopoulos is the general manager of Paths of Greece, and his vision for the company is to help Greece become one of the top...

With a triple pandemic of COVID, flu, and RSV hitting the US hard this winter and resulting in an explosion of cases, business executives need to take the lead on promoting the newly-updated, Omicron-specific boosters. Doing so will help reduce the number of sick days taken by their workers, minimize...

Several years ago, I was speaking to an investment manager who constantly delivered a good and steady financial performance. I asked him what his investment principles were. One of them, he said, was that he never invested in anything that was labeled as ‘exciting.’ His view was that exciting things...

Cheating has been part of human behavior forever. A systematic look at cheating in baseball offers insights into why it is sometimes particularly prevalent and ideas on how to control it. In baseball, cheating became common once sporting clubs first started playing competitively in the 1850s. Teams unfairly grabbed ringers...

Andrea Riposati is globally recognized as an entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Dante Labs, which he founded with Mattia Capulli seven years ago. Under the Italian founders’ leadership, the genomics and precision medicine company has made genome sequencing and analysis accessible to consumers, researchers, and medical practices all...

How impactful is a shared mission on a company board?  Everyone, not just on HeartPoint Global’s advisory board, but all of our employees, are all attracted to the dual mission of HeartPoint Global. Our mission is to bring a minimally invasive, effective, adjustable solution to patients that have cardiovascular disease...

According to a 2020 McKinsey report, a third of all sales tasks can be automated. That’s a game-changer when it comes to improving efficiency for your sales team and boosting ROI. Yet, the same report states, one in four companies had automated only one of their sales processes. In this...

Good people management is tricky. Every person has had different experience of previous workplaces. They also have different expectations of their manager and different ways of communicating. The best qualities of good people managers depend on that manager being both professionally good and of good character (Sison, 2003, Harvard, 2007)....

Productivity is a number one priority for professionals all over the United States. According to a recent study by Headway, 64 percent of people would like to be more productive than they are right now. However, the truth of the matter is that we all find it hard. Whether it’s...

One of my colleagues has just joined us from working in an institution where everybody was expected to be in all the meetings all the time, and then do any kind of thinking or writing or creative work on the weekends. She had become used to that as a norm....