This week’s Business of Giving features Shannon Farley, co-founder and executive director of Fast Forward. The San Francisco nonprofit has a big mission: to help other nonprofits use technology to ...
Corporate leaders often ascend in their careers by developing a command-and-control style of leadership with a laser focus on clear, specific goals. That approach may spell trouble for society, says ...
After nearly a decade, I am preparing to conclude my role leading the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation. While transitions offer a natural moment for reflection, I don’t want to look back so much as ...
Entrepreneurs who build successful businesses often possess a unique ability to see what others don't—the critical bottlenecks hiding in plain sight that create frustration, inefficiency, and lost ...
Learn how to slow down, challenge assumptions, and pinpoint what’s really going wrong. Corey Phelps, the dean of Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, says great problem solvers are hard to find.
No matter their rank, teammates want to believe that what they do, day in and day out, matters. Yet meaning can be incredibly hard to find. Every job has its good days and bad, its high points and low ...
Photo Credit: This episode of the Skift Travel Podcast featured a discussion involving RateGain's Bhanu Chopra and Skift CEO Rafat Ali. Skift RateGain’s Bhanu Chopra believes India’s time has come — ...
We’d all like to be innovative, but few people have creativity switches they can turn on at will. (I definitely don’t.) We’re a lot better at convergent thinking, using knowledge and experience to ...
The Burrito Optimization Game was developed by Gurobi Optimization in partnership with Lehigh University Professor Larry Snyder. This interactive game challenges players to deliver burritos in a way ...