The United States remains the only country in the developed world that does not mandate employers offer paid leave for new mothers, according to the OECD. New mothers in Estonia, Slovak Republic, Finland, and Hungary for instance, are entitled to up to three years worth of paid leave. Mothers in...

Precision medicine is an approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account the variability in each individual.  Diagnostics that can facilitate better patient stratification and identify patients for specific treatment and prevention pave the way for optimized clinical trials. For example, over 50 percent of drugs that fail...

The vast majority of small businesses will require a loan at one point in their path towards success. Chances are, you’re in the same situation. Often, company owners don’t have enough patience to analyze the various loan offers and choose the first loan offer that presents itself. Unfortunately, this is...

China witnessed the most significant outflow of millionaires globally, with as many as 10,000 super-rich Chinese changed their domicile in 2017, according to the report by New World Wealth. The second was India with 7,000 ultra-rich Indians shifted overseas in 2017. In 2016, the figure stood at 6,000, while in...

Among your many responsibilities as CEO, none is more critical than that of brand champion. Internally you’re the visionary, inspiring the organization to live out its purpose. Externally – like it or not – you’re the keeper and communicator of your brand’s promise, the beacon and bellwether looked to by customers,...

For a small business to get their product on the market and readily available to their customers, many stages of production are required. In order to make money on their products, a company has to cut costs on their production and transport methods. Nearly every stage of production has costs...

IR35 affects all contractors working via a limited company, whether you’re new or you’ve been in the industry for a while. With every job you take on, the contract will be different, expecting them to be the same without having to put any thought into it can sometimes can back...

It turns out that Comcast, Uber, and the Trump Organization have made 24/7 Wallstreet’s top 20 most-hated companies in the United States list. Surprisingly they’ve beaten out companies like Facebook, United Airlines, and even the Weinstein Company in this year’s list, but still aren’t viewed as poorly as FOX News,...

Migrants residing in India sent an estimated $5.6 Billion to family members in their home countries in 2016, according to new report by the Pew Research Center. Which also noted that $62.7 billion was sent back to India by foreign-based Indian workers. The remittance number is based on calculations by...