Education and Career

The United States has overtaken Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands and Singapore as an attractive haven for super-rich individuals and businesses looking to shelter assets behind a veil of secrecy, according to a 2015 index of the world’s offshore havens compiled by the Tax Justice Network. The Alpine nation, Switzerland, is...

A desire to protect the interests of future generations is seen as a critical or even overriding factor that motivates CEOs to drive business action on climate change, according to PwC’s CEO pulse on climate change survey. However, three out of five surveyed (63%) said they were personally motivated by...

In many businesses, leaders at higher levels feel pressured to collect data from every direction: sales numbers, customer support resources, client health scores — anything and everything that might tell them something about their company that isn’t apparent outside of the metrics. They measure and measure without understanding why or...

In a time of economic uncertainty, Singapore, as expected, kept its position as the most business-friendly place in the world, according to a World Bank's 2016 report. That’s consistency. New Zealand ranked second in the world for ease of doing business. Interestingly, amongst the emerging economies, India made the biggest...

Philosopher Ayn Rand once wrote that “morality is a code of black and white” and famously concluded that there could be no such thing as a moral “grey zone.” More than two months after the New York Times published a novella-length article depicting a “bruising” corporate and workplace culture at...

An improved website, a new app, a pivot in company strategy. These are all time-consuming tasks that need to be handled by an expert -- and in a timely fashion. But what if the expert you need isn’t on your payroll? That’s why companies are tapping into a new work...

Many businesses wrestle with the notion that they do not have the marketing and analytics power to execute real-time marketing campaigns. In large part, resistance to real-time initiatives stems from the common misconception that all real-time efforts are reactionary. There is a persistent fear among marketers that real-time operations are...

It's no surprise that China, the Asian powerhouse, has topped the list of the top 10 countries whose travellers spend the most on international tourism for the year 2014, according to the 22015 United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) report. Tourism is obviously a huge moneymaker for countries that are...

With 83.7 million tourists, France continued to top the ranking of the world’s top ten international tourism destinations based on foreign tourist arrivals, according to the latest figures reported by the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Tourism Highlights, 2015 Edition. The United States ranked 1st in tourism earnings worldwide with...

Nobody says its easy being a child. As the pressure from year to year rises on getting good grades and growing up into a decent human being, it only gets harder as they mature into an adult. As parents and guardians, it’s natural to want your child to succeed in...