In 2016, beauty industry shed more than 21,000 salons, which is almost 9 percent of the total no. of salons in 2016. It is an alarming stat. The reasons listed are various for this sharp reduction, for instance, escalating overheads, salon walkouts, salon suite/loft growth, bored customers and the standard...

The understanding of the global learning crisis If one lives in a well-developed country, he or she might think that the global learning crisis is a myth: everyone can get a secondary education and has a chance to enter the university. There are hundreds of scholarships and opportunities to study...

Going to London Business School or Oxford University's Said pays. But it doesn’t pay as much as the Wharton or MIT Sloan. But it pays a lot more than going to University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. Salary benchmarking site Emolument.com has compiled a ranking of 20 business schools...

Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull launched a new Defence Export Strategy to catapult Australia into the world's top 10 defense exporting countries by 2028. Australia's defence exports are worth about $2 billion a year. And the government has turned to the Australian universities and colleges to help fulfill these goals....

Interestingly, a new UN-backed survey into global happiness has placed United States 18th out of 156 nations. The United States, one of the world's wealthiest countries, fell to 18th place from 14th last year. Finland was ranked as the happiest country in the world, both among its immigrant and general...

One of the biggest challenges in HR revolves around people management.  This is mainly due to a number of contributing factors which include globalisation, as well as an increase in people working from home or remotely.  These new challenges to the traditional workplace environment have meant that businesses are now...

A business leader is often mired in hundreds of decisions on any given day. Having to prioritize items that deserve major investment can be a challenge, especially if the financial stakes are significant. A plethora of development, marketing, and sales concerns compete for their attention, making it difficult to decide...

South Korea trumps Germany and Japan in robotics, with the United States also lagging behind in the top 10. South Korea has the biggest number of industrial robots per 10,000 employees in manufacturing, according to the IFR’s latest figures. South Korea boasts 631 robots per 10,000 employees, which is 8...

Finland is the happiest country in the world, according to the United Nation's 2018 World Happiness Report. Norway, last year's winner, came in second place in the 2018 report. It's followed by Denmark, Iceland, and Switzerland. So if you want to be happy, move to SCANDINAVIA! The Nordic countries have...