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This month, we're celebrating the six-year anniversary of 'invisible dividends', one of the most successful ideas in the history of our business. The post Introducing: The world of 'Invisible Dividends' was first publish...

London's financial firms may pay lip service to the concept of gender equality, but with only 19.5 per cent of senior roles held by women, is it time to implement quotas? Sex in the City may be gone from our screens, but...

Here we are enmeshed in the World of Work in 2015. Among the many facets of this new way of working: a not-always smooth shift from officemates to virtually connected nomads who communicate and work via all sorts of virt...

The proposal, which Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo plans to announce in his State of the State address Wednesday, would raise the minimum wage to $11.50 in New York City and to $10.50 elsewhere.

Soaring stock prices and major advances in fighting diseases have some saying the industry has turned a corner and others watching for a bursting bubble.

Leather prices rise amid a cattle shortage

Uber has this offer for European governments: Work with us, and we'll create 50,000 jobs in your cities this year.

A Northbrook company said it has won fast-track status for approval of a drug that could become the first in the United States to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal muscle disease found most often in boys.

Brokerage shares tumbled after the securities regulator punished industry heavyweights for illegal operations in their margin trading business

On January 14, 2015, the Japanese government has decided its budget for the new fiscal year. The total amount of the government expenditure would be 96.3 trillion yen, the largest amount in Japanese history, while the am...

Dr. Martin Luther King faced bigger challenges than the tax man, but after being indicted for tax evasion, he went to trial and was acquitted. That's no small feat.

China's economic strength is crucial to the health of the global economy, and especially to its neighbours in the Asia-Pacific region.

The UK's biggest sub-prime vehicle finance provider is exploring a sale that will hand its founder a huge windfall.

The Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots are heading to Glendale, Arizona. Fans of both teams are right behind them. With the matchup now set for Super Bowl XLIX, Super Bowl tickets are already in high demand on the...

Working once again with the team at Symplur (a data analytics company with a focus on social media in healthcare), we compiled a list of the top 10 tweets from the recent JP Morgan Healthcare Conference.

DETROIT -- Federal regulators are investigating whether Ford Motor Co. should expand a 2013 safety recall of diesel trucks. The previous recall involved 2,951 F-350, F-450 and F-550 trucks sold with ambulance packages. T...

Understanding that time is not unlimited, here are three things you can do every week - less than an hour total - that can help you be a better, stronger business leader.

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Montana officials said Sunday that an oil pipeline breach spilled up to 50,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River near Glendive, Montana, but they said they are unaware of any threats to public ...

China will release its fourth-quarter growth on Monday night, and on Thursday the European Central Bank is expected to start its bond-buying program; IBM and General Electric will report results.

This post was co-authored with Becky Ross and Shannon Gorman, both MBA students at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.

House prices in regional France continued to fall in 2014, but there are considerable variations, according to figures from estate agents. The annual review from the FNAIM, the national association of French estate agent...

Xiaomi, the world’s No. 3 smartphone maker in the third quarter of 2014, will purchase a 2.98% stake in software company Kingsoft from Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings for HK$527 million, or $68 million.