Education and Career

It may come as a surprise to learn that the school with the most billionaire alumni isn’t Harvard. It’s another Ivy League institution, the University of Pennsylvania, according to a new report by Forbes magazine, which has ranked American colleges in terms of number of billionaire alumni. Recession? What recession?...

The leaders of international companies are still trying to decipher Brexit’s impact on the future of their business operations. The unexpected result of the vote and its ensuing fallout have created an atmosphere of instability and ambiguity, which never bodes well for the economic climate. As an executive search consultant,...

In this article I clarify how ambition is distinguished from ego and how healthy ambition, together with sincere humility, can make your life and career evolve toward the goals that you have set for yourself. As a starting point, I strongly believe that Ambition is the motor that puts the...

Harrison Ford is now now officially "the highest-grossing actor" and Scarlett Johansson is "the highest-grossing actress" of all-time in the US box office history, according to Box Office Mojo chart. It has ranked actors and actresses according to the amount of money their movies have collectively grossed in the US....

No surprise, with an estimated net worth of $130 billion, the Waltons of Wal-Mart Stores, was named the richest family in the United States, according to the latest tally of the richest rich in Forbes magazine. With a net worth of $82 billion, Koch family, owners of the Koch Industries,...

Enter the First Mentor: It was the summer that changed my life. For summer break after my junior year from the University of Oklahoma I had planned to take a job at the University pool as a lifeguard. The business professor who appointed himself my mentor had other plans for...

That's right, global tech giant Apple, Salesforce, and Facebook are the companies where people are dying to work for, according to LinkedIn "top attractors list," an eye-opening ranking of the employers dominating the talent game.  Not surprisingly, the iPhone maker, Apple has been named world's most desirable place to work,...

Have you ever fantasized about your great escape? You know, the stressful job, the daily grind, the loveless marriage. What if you made a break for it and actually got all the way to land of plenty only to find that it wasn’t what you really wanted? That’s exactly what...

CEOs at the world's largest companies feel that the next 3 years will be critical in shaping and transforming their industry. That's a key finding of KPMG's 2016 CEO Survey of nearly 1300 CEOs from companies with annual revenues of $500 million up to more than $US10 billion. In a...

The IPO market has been struggling in 2016, due in part to ongoing volatility in the equity markets, as well as the perception of another venture capital bubble. As a result, many startups have decided to delay their IPO launches and in some cases, abort them altogether. Before founders abandon...