Water utilities have become America's unexpected source of front-page news, enduring multiple 'once-in-a-century' events in recent years. Droughts, pollution, unprecedented cold, flooding, and storms all take their toll on our infrastructur...

Picture yourself five years from now driving through a U.S. city.

What will be different? Despite widespread optimism that we'll all be driving Teslas and other electric vehicles, the reality is that most of the passenger vehicles a...

The kind of phone calls parents get from their first-year students midway through a semester are often very different from the calls they receive at the start of the school year.

The calls often change from the exuberant "Everything...

Car dealership lots are emptying out due to the semiconductor supply crunch. Container ships are backed up in major ports in Europe, China and the U.S. A dire labor shortage is adding to the difficulty of producing and transporting enough goods t...

Colleges need to do a better job of onboarding students. Students, most of whom are 18 years old and have never lived away from home, typically arrive for a 2-to-3-day orientation, have a ton of information thrown at them, and are largely expecte...

The gold rush is on for fashion re-sellers like The RealReal, Poshmark and ThredUp as consumers look for clothing that is sourced more sustainably than "fast fashion," which has been linked to poor foreign labor conditions and pollution.

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he spread of Covid-19's Delta variant threw return-to-office plans into disarray, again. Offices tore up their re-entry plans, and some decided to make remote work arrangements permanent.

By 2025, 36.2 million Americans will be workin...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have revolutionized our lives, but some sectors have been slower to adopt smart solutions than others. Despite AI systems underpinning everything from power grid regulation to Google's search to...

Chances are you know someone whose family acquired a "pandemic puppy" to help them weather the Covid-19 lockdowns. Pets have become beloved, pampered family members whose well-being is viewed as an essential household budget item, making the...

Supply chain problems are now impacting attorneys, accountants, consultants, public relations and other knowledge-based jobs. These professions have long relied on top talent from business schools and law schools to join their ranks, but now it s...

Just ask the fashion executive who pitched his spring collection by citing violent political protests, or the communications chief who wisecracked about AIDS, or the CFO who promoted unreleased company financial information on his personal Twitte...

Three years ago, 100 million fans around the world tuned in excitedly to watch the final of a major sports tournament. But it wasn't the World Cup final or the World Series; it was the League of Legends championship, which highlighted 24 video...

The data on pay inequity for female physicians is, frankly, damning.

Across all medical specialties, there are dogged disparities between what females and males are paid. For instance, in pediatric pulmonology, women earn 23% less tha...

Anyone living in San Francisco or Seattle, where Teslas are a common sight, could be forgiven for believing that the electric-vehicle era is just around the corner.

Head out to the rest of the country, though, and the reality is more...

Get ready for the store of the future.

From Walmart's order-picking Alphabot to Kroger's automated fulfillment center, technology is already changing how we shop. We're ordering online for at-home delivery or we use click-and-co...

What's more important for your company: growth or trust?

If you said the former, you're not alone. Organic growth is overwhelmingly the top goal for business executives, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers's 24th annual global survey...

The outlook for managed services providers (MSPs) remains positive, as increasing complexity and security concerns - driven by the work-from-anywhere environment and high-profile hacking incidents - have moved IT management from being a cost...

Superheroes are fun to watch in movies, but they are exhausting to work for.

Risking it all to save the day at the last minute, there's no doubt that it can be thrilling and nerve-wracking and emotional. It's also a lousy way to run a...

Surging markets in carbon credits have started to save the planet and save billions of dollars - but they need guardrails from business leaders and regulators to truly succeed.

Worldwide carbon credit trading markets already exceed...

If you're an auto supplier, the consensus today is that you need to go electric or go the way of the dinosaurs.

After all, every day seems to bring more confirmation that the electric vehicle era is just around the corner. Big automak...