I will start with a confession: International Women’s Day always bursts my bubble. It reminds me that, as a female entrepreneur, I’m a minority in Tel Aviv, in Israel and throughout the world. Despite my frustration that being a female founder is still considered newsworthy, I do believe that we...

Dominated by Jeff Bezos's online behemoth, of the total $201 billion in retail E-commerce sales in the United States, the following top 20 companies currently accounts for $159 billion of US retail sales overall, with Amazon, Walmart, Apple, Macy’s, and the Home Depot taking the top five spots. The data...

Have you ever questioned or wondered why some issues, problems and challenges do not seem to improve or get better? This is almost similar to throwing darts at a dart board and never seeming to hit the ‘bulls eye’ to score the higher points. Have you ever pulled weeds from...

Service employees and their customers don’t always get along. Depending on who you ask, if you were to take a random sample of helpdesk employees, you’d likely receive positive and negative feedback about their customers. Unfortunately, that’s the truth and that’s a shame. Grateful customers make working in the service...

With most firms today running application-driven websites, developing/maintaining in-house software, or customizing purchased software applications, business leaders are increasingly confronted with the question of software performance. Although the issues and functions surrounding web and mobile application development, testing and performance are worlds away from conventional high-level concerns, the performance and...

Despite of it's economic slowdown, China is home to the largest number of billionaires in the world, according to Hurun Report which recently released the Global Rich List 2016, a ranking of the US dollar billionaires. Report reveals that there are 568 billionaires living in China compared with the 535...

C-Suite and Key executives need proper retention agreements when your company is "in play" and an acquisition looms ahead You are a C-suite officer or senior executive and your company is facing an acquisition. How do you protect yourself or even advance your position in the event of a "successful"...

I'm the president of what I like to call a 24-year-old startup. It was launched in 1992 as a printed catalog out of the guest bedroom of our CEO and founder, Ed Kushins. Since then, we’ve evolved from one of the first online social networks into the leading home sharing...

INSEAD business School remains the France’s highest-ranked institutions in the FT Global MBA Rankings, 2016. For the first time in its 57-year history, Insead has displaced the elite trio of Wharton, Stanford, and Harvard and ranked world's No. 1, climbing 3 places since last year. As for rival French business...