It's no secret that if you look at the senior ranks of many corporations, including the C-suite and the board of directors, there are more white men than there are women or people of color.

The numbers bear this out. A 2019 study by...

Leaks of customer data, corrupt practices by foreign agents, IT breaches. These are just some of the biggest risks that companies face with their third-party relationships. Despite the known dangers, few get it right when it comes to budgeting fo...

Climate change may not have hit your home yet with a wildfire, windstorm, or flooding, but it's still barreling toward millions of people with an increasingly urgent threat: a homeowner's insurance crisis.

Annual insurance bills a...

The war for talent appears to be getting fiercer by the day as the U.S. economy stirs back to life in the wake of the pandemic.

Supermarkets are handing out bonuses in their desperation to hire and retain frontline staff; franchise ow...

As M&A activity gets hotter, private equity firms face a growing challenge: how to squeeze out the value they need from deals.

North American deals hit their second-highest level this century in the first quarter of 2021, adding t...

As Americans across the country are flooded with news reports of assaults and hate speech directed at Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, individual protesters are taking a stand, and so too are...

If you think the white-hot housing market is a supernova that's destined to burn out, here's some advice: Put on your heat-deflecting space suit.

The factors that led to the housing boom and sellers market are still very much with...

America is facing its worst housing shortage in 50 years. Don't expect an improvement any time soon.

With a nationwide shortage of 3.8 million single-family homes, it is a fantastic time to be a home seller, but a frightening and fr...

Though some are portraying Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' July 20 plan to blast off into space as an impulsive publicity stunt, much more is at issue here than just the richest person on Earth moving on to conquer new worlds.

Bezos' B...

Each month, with great fanfare, investors await the release of the Consumer Price Index, the headline metric that politicians and pundits cite as they opine about inflation.

After more than a year of Covid-19 lockdowns, the hiring floodgates are about to open -- and managers should be prepared.

Since March 2020, employment has been a seller's market. Very few people have been able to switch jobs. With a p...

We're almost at the finish line, but not quite. Throughout the Covid-19 crisis, it's been a long, tough haul.

Many managers face a real dilemma as we enter this period of uncertainty: How hard should I push my team and the organiz...

Lately, I've been hearing an increasing number of "I quit" anecdotes from friends working as administrative staff at universities. I worked in this space until recently, so I feel little surprise. But I do feel sympathy because most of them...

The predicted demise of traditional brick-and-mortar retailers has become common wisdom as the Amazon juggernaut rolls on and the pandemic supercharged the move to online shopping.

It's true that the traditional retail model has bee...

Headlines for President Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure bill are mainly about roads and bridges, but the most pressing public health need is buried underground and out of sight.

America's network of drinking water plants, wast...

It's a great time to be a software developer, data analyst or cybersecurity professional. Not so much if you're one of the many employers in the tech sector and beyond facing intense competition in a growing struggle to attract and retain IT...

Serendipity can have a larger impact on our career success than we want to admit. For better or worse, the biggest moments of our career might be due to chance: when our industry swerves away from our skill set, the executive who mentored us leav...

When Americans think of an apprenticeship, they may associate them with images of young factory workers or plumbers learning the ropes under the mentorship of a seasoned expert.

That dated image of apprenticeships is one reason why th...

Right now, the people in charge of very important pieces of our national infrastructure are bearing an uncomfortable resemblance to a room full of preschoolers wandering around with sharp, pointy scissors.

The SolarWinds breach earli...

When technology transforms an industry, it can begin quite slowly -and then it happens all at once.

Take the first iPhone. When it first launched in 2007, it was often discussed with derision as many failed to grasp its revolutiona...