Whether you’ve worked your way to the top of an established concern, or you’ve found yourself running your own start-up with a skeleton crew of carefully selected employees, chances are you never envisaged yourself as a manager when you started out. Sure, some of us naturally feel the need or...

The British economic and political landscape has changed in the light of the Brexit vote and while politicians negotiate the exit from the EU the landscape will continue to change. Despite the fact that the FTSE 100 has regained all of its losses since the referendum result was announced and...

When it comes to running an online business, a CEO usually has the final say on what happens and where the future of the company might be headed. One area that every CEO and entrepreneur need to be focusing more effort on, is in the department of business and marketing...

Across industries as varied as finance, e-commerce, and food/beverage, companies today are focused on much more than business as usual: Morgan Stanley is giving career advice to women; Amazon is entering cargo delivery; and Coca-Cola is training entrepreneurs in underprivileged geographies. It’s increasingly clear that in 2016, businesses of all sizes...

Millennials—customers born between 1982 and 2000—now officially outnumber baby boomers and represent a key demographic for retail sales and marketing programs. It is estimated that the buying power of the millennials will have an impact for six decades or more—meaning it’s time to start paying close attention to their spending...

As a leader in the tech industry, I enjoy my executive role at PointSource, helping run a growing digital transformation firm working across many clients and industries. When I am asked to participate in women-in-tech speaking panels or events, I am happy to engage in thoughtful conversation with a variety...

If there was ever a cautionary SEO tale, it’s that of JCPenney. In 2011, the retail giant hired an SEO firm to help boost online traffic. The firm began linking to irrelevant websites to artificially increase rankings, a practice Google has long sought to extinguish. Once Google’s algorithms identified the...

Princeton takes No. 1 spot on the list of best universities in America, according to the U.S. News' annual Best Colleges rankings for 2017, comparing more than 1,800 U.S. based institutions, of which 1,374 are ranked. The number 1 pick might not surprise you - Princeton has topped the list...

Many are driven to excel in business by ambition, big ideas and a firm eye on success, and without such an outlook progress would rarely be made. Yet the greatest leaders are very often the ones who know how to negotiate the difficult moments, to identify problems within their team...