Whenever a market enters a frenzied buying period, good deals get harder to find and mistakes more likely. That's what we see right now in M&A as the flood of easy money and fears of tax hikes under the Biden administration combine to fuel...

Calling it a deluge would be an understatement. When Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, clients inundated their accounting firms with queries, wanting to know precisely how the tax law changes would affect their businesses and, mo...

It's a great time to be in the MSP business. The industry finds itself uplifted by a whirlwind of three forces - cloud migration, COVID, and consolidation - that together are creating sunny days for MSP owners and operators.

A ser...

After grappling with the COVID-19 crisis for the past year, senior living and care facilities are waking up to some stark financial realities that are starting to push a new wave of consolidation in the sector.

One recent analysis fou...

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. It's a nugget of wisdom (courtesy of heavyweight boxing great Mike Tyson) that companies would do well to heed when it comes to international compliance risks.

While many larg...

Prior to the pandemic, hospitals were marching toward solutions that paid homage to the heads-and-beds model, with its tight margins. They were investing in specialists to bring elective surgeries in-house. They were becoming more efficient on th...

Let's face it: The private sector isn't getting the job done when it comes to cybersecurity. How many more Colonial Pipeline- and JBS-type incidents really need to occur to drive that point home?

The crescendo is building for a na...

Lore has it that a woman once approached Pablo Picasso at the height of his fame and asked if he would sketch her portrait. He dashed off a few strokes and handed her the drawing. She asked how much she owed him.

"$10,000," Picasso is...

We aren't all making semiconductors, innovating HR with new startups, or running e-commerce shops. But no matter what industry you're in, it's been transformed by technology.

Digital transformations live or die based on a leader's ab...

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...