Education and Career

With a median total compensation of $167,534 Chicago-based consulting firm, A.T. Kearney topped the list of the highest-paying companies in the United States for 2016, Glassdoor, the employment services website reported in a survey. Strategy& formed in 2014 as a merger of Booz & Company and PwC came in second...

Qatar, the world’s richest country per capita, has topped the list of luxury goods and services spending in 2015 among five GCC countries, according to results of a new Amex survey of spending habits in the Middle East. Wealthy Qatar residents and citizens spent an average of $4,074 per month...

Working from home gives employees a range of benefits, from flexibility to ditching the daily commute and achieving a better work-life balance, research reveals. In a recent survey, run by Reed Commercial, 400 home workers were asked about the benefits of working in this way. More than half said flexibility...

The Greek island of Santorini has been named the best island in Europe for 2016, according to the TripAdvisor, the travel planning and booking site, followed by the Spanish holiday island of Majorca, and Madeira in Portugal. Crete, Greece took home the No. 4 spot and Spain's Tenerife --- rounded...

After my parents had cancer — one dying and one surviving — my passion for oncology (one I’d always had) became a greater purpose in life, as well as an eye-opening experience. When my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and cardiac disease, that singular event sparked an idea, which...

Mobile software development has become notably more complex. The average app costs more than $200,000 to develop and requires hundreds of hours of development time spread over about 18 weeks. Subscription-based software has become the norm, and the majority of apps integrate with multiple third-party cloud services. These developmental complexities have led...

The music icon Elton John and novelist Jk Rowling have emerged as the most generous celebrities in Britain, according to the Sunday Times' giving list, which also included One Direction and David Beckham. The 69-year-old British singer-songwriter Elton John gave 26.8 million pounds in 2015, mostly to his Aids foundations...

In a recent column in Marketing Management we explained the inevitability of the rest of the world catching up to us in business and technical expertise and why it is imperative that we increase the productivity of our innovation commercialization as a nation. We suggested nationwide innovation scholarships that create...

The Washington director of the Jewish Federations of North America, William Daroff is ranked as the world's most influential Twitter user on Jewish issues, by the 100-year-old Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), on a list that includes Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and noted journalists. Israel's Prime Minister was followed by...

“You can’t do anything about the cost or quality of health care if you don’t know what’s happening,” Harris Rosen told me. He was casually dressed, sitting in an office he shares with a large Labrador retriever and a fluffy white poodle. For 40 years Rosen has sat at the...