Education and Career

The Harvard University has been ranked as the No. 1 university in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities, crunched by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The rest of the top 10 universities remain virtually unchanged from previous years, Stanford placed second, followed...

I’ll be honest, in my first year of business I was stuck in a rut, feeling overworked and underappreciated. This resulted in well over $100,000 of debt from “investing” in online courses and coaching that didn’t do a damn thing to help my business grow. As the CEO of my...

Discovery Communications topped the list of companies with the largest pay gap between their CEO to average worker, according to a study by Glassdoor, the career and recruiting company. In 2014, David Zaslav, chief executive officer of Discovery Communications made $156 million, while average employee’s salary was $80,000. The ratio...

Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific has been recognized as the safest airline in the world for 2015, according to the rankings of the Germany-based Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre (JACDEC). Emirates of the United Arab Emirates was ranked 2nd on the list of the world's top 25 safest airlines and...

The Scottish music-maker, Calvin Harris, has been named the highest-paid DJ in the world for the third year running after pocketing an estimated $66 million from his music, performances fees, and lucrative endorsement deals in 2015. The 31-year-old Calvin Harris - who's dating pop-star Taylor Swift - was followed by...

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, United Kingdom, was named best fashion school in the world for 2015 to study for fashion-related degree, according to the Business of Fashion’s Global Fashion School Ranking. Central St. Martins (C.S.M.) ranked number one for undergraduate courses (BA) and second for...

The University of Massachusetts has been named as one of the top 25 LGBTQ-friendly Colleges and Universities in the United States for 2015 by Campus Pride, a nonprofit support and advocacy network for students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning (LGBTQ). Also on the list of...

It comes as no surprise that “Hunger Games” star Jennifer Lawrence topped the list of the world’s highest paid actresses. The 25-year-old, Jennifer Lawrence took in an estimated $52 million in just a 12-month span. Powered by her superhero turn in “Avengers: Age of Ultron”, Scarlett Johansson was the runner-up,...

As CEOs, we are not typically tuned into the thousands of commercial decisions frontline sales and marketing teams make daily. Yet ensuring those decisions align with a company’s business strategy and P&L objectives is the key to success. When a strategy-execution gap is present, it can hinder a CEO’s ability...

Nearly every organization relies on meetings to keep people informed and to keep projects moving forward. But the value of meetings in most organizations is dubious, and sometimes it seems like meetings are the default activity rather than a tool of productivity. If you’ve ever walked out of a meeting...