Education and Career

One of the most important concepts I’ve learned in business is also one of the simplest: Just ask for help. Many business leaders today pride themselves on doing things on their own. They discuss how they’ve risen to the top without any help, how they’ve succeeded without leaning on anyone....

It's not a surprise, Harvard Business School (HBS) emerged as the No. 1 business school in the U.S. whose graduates earn the highest starting salaries, according to a new league table from StartClass 2015 rankings. Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, its nearest competitor, ranked 2nd best. UPenn's Wharton School...

How do you make sure that you are recruiting the best person for the job? How do you know that the best people out there even know about open positions at your business? How can you make sure that when you have found the right person for the job someone...

With $2.24 billion in R&D spending in 2014, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore ranked No. 1 overall among universities and colleges in the United States spending the most on research and development, according to the latest numbers from the U.S. National Science Foundation. University of Michigan came in second with...

Want to make a financial advisor go out of his mind? Just sit him or her in front of a flat screen and put on a financial news show where the guest is some other financial advisor. It won’t take long for the steam to come out of the ears...

Mark Zuckerberg has been named the most powerful person in U.K. media, 2015, the Facebook creator rose to the top of the annual MediaGuardian 100 list of the most powerful players affecting the media industry in the United Kingdom. Larry Page, the co-founder and the chief executive of technology giant...

In the latest analysis of the top universities across the globe, California Institute of Technology or Caltech in the United States has been ranked No. 1 in research influence published by the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) magazine, conducted by Elsevier. That's according to the World University Rankings 2015–16, with...

We are living in exponential times. The pace of change is accelerating fast, the growth of population and technology is unprecedented and there is enormous uncertainty. To succeed in this new reality requires us to radically change how we think, behave, do business, learn and go about our day-to-day. Innovation in Exponential...

The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore ranked No. 1 in the world among institutions under the age of 50, according to the latest Quacquarelli Symbols (QS) World University Rankings for the second year running. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) ranks second with an overall score...

With 9 out of 10 adults donating money to charity and half the population volunteering their time, Myanmar is the world's most magnanimous nation, according to a new report from the London-based Charitable Aid Foundation (CAF). Last year, the United States tied for first with Myanmar for the title of...