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Why Innovation Is So Difficult To Define
Innovation: It's something everyone is in favor of, everyone likes the idea of, yet no one really understands it, according to Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor Kevin Werbach. Werbach...
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50 Women Who Are Changing The World
Women are having a bigger impact on our world than ever.In the past year, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg pushed feminism back into the center of the national discourse.In Afghanistan, a country where...
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Wal-Mart Is Getting Really Serious About Tracking Customers
Wal-Mart is taking new measures to take e-commerce market share from competitor Amazon. “We’re building a global technology platform whose goals are as simple, frankly, as they are audacious,” Neil...
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15 Ways Janette Sadik-Khan Is Making New York City A Better Place
In her six years as the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation, Janette Sadik-Khan has made a lot of changes.Those changes are all aimed at her goal of making it easier and...
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Melinda Gates Will Save Thousands Of Lives With Birth Control
Melinda Gates has been married to billionaire Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, since 1994.But Melinda is no trophy wife.She's a brilliant, strong-minded businesswoman and philanthropist who's...
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How To Keep From Burning Out In The Intense Startup World
It was my first startup. I was 18 and we had just raised our first real financing round – $250,000 from a local angel group. A lot was riding on us, even though the scale seems minuscule in...
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Taco Bell Says It's Working On A New 'Low-End' Menu
Taco Bell is working on a new, low-end menu, chief marketing officer Brian Niccol said.Niccol made the announcement on a conference call, according to a report by Bloomberg News. Taco Bell is already...
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Male Execs Are Afraid To Mentor Young Women, And It's Holding Them Back
In Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, “Lean In“, she suggests that part of the problem facing women in the workplace is reluctance from male executives to mentor younger female employees.She may be right. A...
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Comedian Tig Notaro Shared Her Personal Tragedy With The World And Made Us Laugh
The comedian Tig Notaro did something truly revolutionary in August 2012.She'd just been diagnosed with cancer in both breasts, and she stepped onto a stage in Los Angeles where she'd originally...
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Now You Might Have To Show Emotional IQ To Get Into Business School
MBA applicants at top programs are expected to have a sterling college record, and usually several years of top notch work experience.The pedigrees of some of the top students currently at Harvard...
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Here's Why You Keep Applying For The Wrong Jobs
There's a mismatch in the skills employers need and what's currently available, but a recent study is shedding some light on the age-old job search question, "Why didn't I hear back?"According to...
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Lloyd Blankfein's Best Advice For Young People — Forget The Straight Line
Yesterday at the CII annual meeting in D.C., Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein was asked what advice he would give young people starting out their careers in finance and other industries. "You have to...
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Trying To Hook Consumers With A Free Product Is A Dicey Strategy
Seems like every third startup nowadays is using the “Freemium” business model: The lowest service tier is free, and the business is designed to get those users hooked and then upgrade to a paid...
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The Legendary Sallie Krawcheck Has Some Advice For Young Bankers
This summer thousands of kids will start Wall Street jobs or internships for the first time, and they need to know that it's going to be really hard. The hours are long, the bosses are demanding, and...
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This Brooklyn Manufacturer Made An Incredible Comeback From Hurricane Sandy
When Hurricane Sandy struck six months ago, one Brooklyn-based green countertop manufacturer was hit hard. IceStone's 38 employees were hoping to get back to business once the storm blew over but found...
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This Simple 'Power Pose' Can Change Your Life And Career
This is part of our series, "50 Women Who Are Changing The World." Amy Cuddy ranked #37.Everyone talks about the importance of "body language," but few people understand how much of an impact it...
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Abercrombie & Fitch Refuses To Make Clothes For Fat People
Teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitchdoesn't stock XL or XXL sizes in women's clothing because they don't want overweight or unattractive women wearing their brand. They want the "cool kids," and they...
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Chobani CEO: Our Success Has Nothing To Do With Yogurt
Chobani Yogurt has been one of the most explosive food start-ups to ever hit the market.The company's now infamous Greek yogurt is netting more than $1 billion in annual sales — and it only went to...
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WHITNEY TILSON: The Most Brilliant Things I've Learned From Warren Buffett
Value investor Whitney Tilson told us the No. 1 reason he makes the annual pilgrimage to Omaha, Nebraska for the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting is to learn.We asked Tilson, who runs Kase...
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How Technology Can Significantly Improve Your Trip To The Grocery Store
Long lines at check out can spoil a shopping trip just as a bad dessert can spoil an otherwise fine dinner. Either can, if you will, leave a bad taste in your mouth. So what can a retailer do besides...
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