‘Equity’ Review: Women on Wall Street – A Financial Thriller
Equity is about women on Wall Street. It’s a Wall Street drama, but it’s not about corruption, crime, or catastrophe. It’s about women who thrive on competition and ambition, deals and strategy, but who must carefully calibrate every aspect of their lives, professional and private, to stay equal in the game. Sarah Auerbach Ifrah attended […]
Ever Been Told, “Don’t Act Like a Tourist”? Here’s Why
With nearly 200 countries in the world and countless communities, why do we all end up visiting the same tourist-infested places? At 28, when she started her travel company, Elvira Museri was already a habitual traveller. Despite the thrill of seeing new places in countries they’d never seen before, she and her husband started feeling […]
How Business Will Save the World
Having A Heart Attack? There’s A Drone For That
Globalegrow, a global, cross-border online clothing retailer, has invested in research that will build a safe, fast and cost effective drone delivery system, in a move they hope will improve the customer shopping experience. In a recent report, drone delivery is likely to disrupt traditional package delivery, and expected to bring major change to the world of e-commerce within […]
Ethics is Not The Reason we Need More Women on Boards
There are many good reasons for increasing gender diversity on boards: better decisions, better performance, and better representation of the consumer base. But the idea, put forward in a variety of research over the past twenty years or so, that women on boards improve the moral and ethical decision-making of those boards has a number […]
Richard Branson Celebrates 66 Years of Innovation
Richard Branson celebrates his birthday on 18 July. He is one of the entrepreneurs that we really admire, starting out in the world of media at age 16, by launching a student newspaper. He has since added numerous media companies to The Virgin Group which he founded, along with many other travel and hospitality companies. These include […]
Bricks with Benefits
A new way to introduce you to sustainablity. Meet Mwayanjaya Bolokonya From Malawi: an environmentally friendly, brick-making entrepreneur whose products only use one-tenth of the energy that normal bricks require. Building a village takes one brick at a time, and EcoBuild is setting out to build a better brick for Malawi homes. Bolokonya says the way they do […]
Legend of Tarzan Teams Up with Stop Ivory to End Poaching
Since the Victorian era in which The Legend of Tarzan unfolds, the overall population of elephant species in Africa dropped from 19 million to just 500,000. So says nonprofit group Stop Ivory, that features the film’s stars, Alexander Skarsgard and Margot Robbie in a new Public Service Announcement video (below). The organization is raising the volume on the plight of endangered African […]
Making Cities Smarter With Connected Cars
We live in an age of new mobility, where the landscape of our digital life is expanding and evolving at unprecedented speed. Wireless connectivity has spread from computers and smartphones to cars, homes and cities, and it’s simplifying and improving our way of living. The rise of “smart” objects and machines powered by machine-to-machine (M2M) […]
5 Great Leadership Lessons from Cleveland’s Championship
Leading teams to sustained success is the essential skill of 21st century leaders. This is not easy. It’s not easy because the way most work gets done in large organizations is like playing basketball. What I mean by this is that in basketball all the players play offense and defense. All players need to have a […]
