Education and Career

Among the best online MBA programs, Temple University's Fox School of Business and Management program, which costs $59,760, claimed the No. 1 spot, according to the U.S. news & world report's Best Online Degree Programs: MBA ranking, 2016. While the online MBA from Indiana University at Bloomington's Kelley School of...

Over the years, open source software has flipped the tech world on its head. Today, GitHub has become the world’s largest collection of open source software, with an estimated size of 1PB, and with almost 9 million registered users. The open source community is dramatically expanding, recently joined by the...

The journey of Yahoo has been sad to watch...because it was preventable. Sometimes our human frailty leads us to get enraptured with our company's 30,000 feet vision. During the consulting engagement to assist the Saint Joseph of Orange’s Board of Directors with their hospital system's five year growth plan; we in...

IBM’s New York Stock Exchange survey of more than 1,500 CEO’s from 60 countries and 33 industries reported that creativity mattered more than rigour, management discipline, integrity or even vision to successfully navigate an increasing complex world. Moreover, less than 50% of global CEOs believe their enterprises are adequately prepared...

The King Abdulaziz University (KAU) in Saudi Arabia has been ranked No. 1 among the top 15 universities in the Arab world for 2016, based on data from the Times Higher Education Rankings 2015-2016, and the American University of Beirut came in second place. While King Fahd University of Petroleum...

In the “olden days” of the late 20th century executive search consultants made it their business literally to know people. Before the advent of social networks and in the days when even the internet was limited, companies would use search firms for finding executives that they couldn’t find themselves. It...

The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) was ranked number one worldwide for the career progress secured by its alumni in the FT global MBA ranking 2016. The other four places in the top 5 have been taken by Renmin University of China School of Business, Stanford University's Graduate School...

Located in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, Stanford University was ranked at number 1 on the list of top 20 most innovative universities around the globe while Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was ranked 2nd and Ivy League stalwart Harvard University, ranked at third. There’s a nice surprise at...

An estimated 80 percent of U.S. businesses are family owned or controlled. So in writing this, I know many can relate when I say that family businesses are both rewarding and challenging. The family-owned businesses that succeed are those with the right attitude and mindset. Twenty years ago, I had...

Germany has been crowned as the best country in the world, according to the inaugural "Best Countries" listing from U.S. News & World Report, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and BAV Consulting. Canada comes in second, followed by United Kingdom. United States is fourth, ahead of notables...