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...

We are currently living in an entrepreneurial world, in which setting up a business faces a real challenge indeed. For those who do take the plunge, a great deal of success can be achieved. The initial stages refer to the business as a ‘startup company’, in which the business is...

Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto has been named the best business school in Canada to study for an MBA in a comprehensive global ranking of the world's best business schools, 2016. Five of Canada’s top business schools figure among the 100 best globally, according to the...

Many CEOs will be aware of the radical changes to pension schemes that come into force from 6th April 2016. However, under the new legislation other high earners in their organisation such as senior management and directors, could also be affected and could end up with unexpected and unwanted tax...

There is a growing awareness in Western medicine that modern health care is really disease care. Instead of focusing on the entire wellbeing of their patients, doctors in the twentieth century and today have specialized not only on certain areas of the body, but the problems that arise in those...