Education and Career

It's no secret that everyone loves a good sale. In fact, 79 percent of consumers consider themselves "price conscious." This consumer dynamic has pushed many business owners to worry about how to price their products, charging as little as possible — operating on razor-thin profit margins — to attract increasingly thrifty consumers....

Some of the warmest and most personable people I’ve ever met were technical co-founders, engineers, and software developers. They were popular with their colleagues and respected as excellent managers and mentors. Yet there’s a ubiquitous stereotype that correlates deep technical expertise with a lack of soft skills like empathy, skills...

Being a manager is not an easy task, especially in an industry like the hospitality and hotel industry. Today, there exist a lot of hotel management institutes that help you hone your skills and make you ready to take on the pressures of the real world, but there are always...

When you run a small business, your PC is the engine that drives everything forward and enables you to process the incredible amount of data, communications, and creative endeavors that your industry demands. When you run a bigger business, this scenario becomes multiplied by the number of PC users in...

With 505 patents issued last year, the University of California (UC System) ranked No. 1 among the world’s top 100 patent-producing universities, according to a new report from the National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association. Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT) came in 2nd with 278 patents,...

Norway and Slovenia have been declared as the "Best Countries For Children To Grow Up And Live In," according to a report by Save the Children. Finland rated 3rd, followed by the Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, and Ireland. Surprisingly, out of 172 countries, the United States took the 36th spot —...

Singapore Airlines has been ranked as the best and most punctual airline in the world for 2017, according to a list compiled by AirHelp, a company which helps customers resolve flight delay compensation claims. Singapore's flag carrier overtook Qatar Airways at the top of the list, with Qatar Airways dropping...

Harvard, the oldest educational institute in the United States, has been ranked No. 1 among the top 100 universities for the 7th consecutive year in a row in the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, a global invitation-only academic opinion survey. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) placed 2nd on the...

Neglecting strategy has a real cost. 95% of employees don't understand their organization’s strategy and 70% of strategic initiatives fail. —Kaplan and Norton. What are you doing about it? But without a sound strategy, the organization is like a body without a brain—there’s no central intelligence guiding the actions of...

With the market as competitive as it is today, there are certain factors that customers take into account when making their purchase decisions. Good user experience and price are still the two main factors topping the list, but we’re also seeing additional aspects such as the company’s reputation or credibility...