Today there are about 44 million unpaid caregivers in the U.S., about the same number of people who watched the final Game of Thrones season. But over the next two decades that number is expected […]
Retailers often compare a “sale” price to the original price. Donald Ngwesays consumers should be skeptical of those original prices — and so should regulators. Sale! Even the word is enough to send […]
If you’re a woman and having a heart attack (what’s called in medical parlance an “acute myocardial infarction” or AMI), do your best to make sure you’re treated by a female physician. […]
By the end of 2017, Yelp had amassed more than 140 million reviews of local businesses. While the company’s mission focuses on helping people find local businesses more easily, this wealth of […]
Most investments in startups should never be made, at least when using by-the-numbers reasoning. But funded they are. Laura Huang believes investors use gut instinct to manage that risk. The odds investors face when […]
Companies pay close attention when a competitor drops out of the market, according to new research by Joshua Lev Krieger. Too often, though, they come to the wrong conclusion. In late 2016 drug […]
The conversations at WEF in Davos last week were varied and wide-ranging, but all centred on a key question: How can we work towards a common, mutually beneficial future in an extremely […]
In the budget President Trump recently submitted to Congress, he asked for a reduction in the 2018 funding of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) of almost 20 percent—or $6 billion. […]
More than a century ago, the department store magnate John Wanamaker famously complained about his inability to gauge the effectiveness of the money he spent on advertising. Since then, technologies such as […]
Howard Raiffa, Harvard University’s Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics Emeritus (a joint endowed chair at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School), who was for decades a pioneering, extraordinarily influential, […]
So-called patent trolls sue firms regardless of actual patent infringement Research to be published in Science on April 29, 2016 shows how cash-hungry patent trolls are squelching innovation when the American economy […]
by Francesca Gino, behavioral scientist Harvard Business School Every day we make decisions that have important implications for our happiness and how we live our lives. Whether we are studying for an exam, […]
“Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job.” That was how The Onion famously announced Barack Obama’s election as president in 2008. Rather than a feel-good story trumpeting the historic occasion, the satirical publication […]
Indian companies are investing in the UK and the US thanks in part, to the business education and work experience their CEOs have had in the West, according to a London […]
One of the more recent members of The 7R Future Leadership Institute is Mr. Teun Depreeuw. Teun Depreeuw is founder and owner of Muurtuin.be, a company specialized in designing, manufacturing, installing and maintaining vertical gardens. Click the picture to read more.
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