Nearly 30 million small businesses exist in America, and most are trying to tread water in a world fraught with IT challenges, security concerns, and rapidly evolving technologies. Seemingly small tech problems can snowball quickly, costing companies exorbitant time and money to fix if they’re mishandled. At the same time,...

Chief executives, entrepreneurs, and investors are always on the lookout for the next big thing, and this year, commentators have touted a variety of growth areas such as drones, virtual reality, the gig and sharing economy, and alternative travel. But it’s easy to miss the opportunities in more traditional industries...

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 requires businesses and public entities to make reasonable accommodations to meet the needs of disabled individuals. Most individuals and business owners are aware of the legal requirement to ensure physical locations, such as hotels, restaurants, banks, government facilities, and other public areas have...

The so-called M7 business schools refer to an informal super elite group of US schools that have become household names in business education - Chicago Booth, Columbia, Harvard, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Stanford GSB, and Wharton. Interpret the "M" as you wish - Magic, Magnificent, Monumental, or given their dominance of...

Switzerland’s six federal institutes of technology account for 98,000 jobs and $14.24 billion in added value to the economy, according to a report by British consulting firm BiGGAR. In 2016, the two Federal Institutes of Technology: ETH Zurich and EPFL employs around 21,000 staff and has an annual budget of...

This year, 6 February marks 100 years since British women (well, the wealthy ones over 30) were given the right to vote and British parliament finally opened its doors to female politicians. Now the United Kingdom has more female MPs than ever before, but when compared to the rest of...

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...