Leading organizational change to create a corporate culture that delivers continuous innovation is one of today's most strategic business imperatives.

But how do you do that?

We've seen what happens to companies when customers lose trust in their brands - just think Target (data breach), Chipotle (E. coli outbreak), and Facebook (selling user data). But how does trust relate to employees inside of organizations and corporate cultures?

Employers may no longer be able to keep former California-based employees from recruiting their former co-workers. Recent court rulings have characterized such non-solicitation clauses as a form of long invalid non-compete agreement.

Over the past five years, the bioscience industry in Delaware has undergone significant changes that were both negative and positive. Earlier this decade we lost about 12% of our jobs due to business decisions by DuPont and Astra Zeneca to transfer research and development centers to other states. Jobs in the bioscience sector paid on average $120,000 per year, so the losses had a significant impact on the local economy.

Universities and industry have a lot to learn from one another – and partnerships between the two can be mutually beneficial while especially serving the university’s entrepreneurial students.

It can be difficult to get these partnerships right, but with a structured collaborative framework on the part of the university, an eye to common values, flexibility and smart programmes for budding start-ups, these partnerships can benefit all involved.

India has seen a diverse set of startups growing in the last decade. Today,  entrepreneurs have set their focus on innovating in areas of healthcare, digital payments, education, and others. And while setting their startups to scale, entrepreneurs also go through their share of difficulties in the initial stages.

It is here that accelerator programmes come into the picture. Moulding startups in its infancy stage, they serve as the bridge between startups and the corporate firms. Accelerators also guide them with practical business applications in the industry, and connect with experts and investors in their respective domain. 

A popular approach for aspiring entrepreneurs these days seems to be to corner anyone who will listen, with a pitch on their current “million dollar idea.” The initial monologue usually ends with the question “How much money do you think this is worth?” In my opinion, ideas are a commodity, and are really not worth much, outside the context of a visionary leader who can execute.

When the history books are written, Warren Buffett will likely go down as the greatest investor of our time. In a little more than six decades, the “Oracle of Omaha,” as he’s come to be known, has transformed $10,000 in seed capital into a net worth of about $80 billion. And take note, this figure could be tens of billions of dollars higher, if not for Buffett’s generous charitable giving throughout the years.

The most creative and successful innovators in the US for 2019 have been revealed by Forbes , and unsurprisingly Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk top the list.

As the respective founders of Amazon and Tesla, the two business minds collectively generated over US$1 trillion in the past 10 years. But what is perhaps more surprising than the mammoth figure is the number of women included on the list.

SAN FRANCISCO — HIVE Ventures, the leading venture fund focused on investing in Armenian entrepreneurs, is hosting its fifth annual HIVE Tech Summit in Yerevan, Armenia on Saturday, October 5, 2019 at The American University of Armenia.

HIVE Ventures provides Armenian startups with investment, mentorship, and access to Silicon Valley resources and network while serving as an important bridge between Armenia and Silicon Valley. In addition, HIVE helps US-based companies open offices in Armenia.

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When tales of hypergrowth are told, the spotlight tends to shine on the founders who led the way or the engineering teams that weathered the storm. The best practices that are shared typically cover thorny, company-wide challenges, from rethinking org design and preventing factions from forming to preserving culture and traditions. The function that’s rarely at the forefront of the conversations around rapid growth? Product design.

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There are two stories about climate change. The first is the one you hear the most; that if we don’t dramatically curb greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade, there will be dire consequences to our health and way of life. The second story is about optimism. It’s about how innovations large and small are helping us to mitigate these dangers and transform our economy and our lives.

To qualify as a country worthy of investment, certain standards must be met.

A World Bank Group report in 2011 highlighted four factors — the country's people, environment, relationships, and framework — that propel both individuals and corporations to invest in a given country's natural resources, markets, technologies, or brands.

Love them or loathe them, online social networks pervades almost all aspects of our lives, including the workplace. Some 77 percent of workers in the United States report using social media at work, regardless of whether their employer has a policy to regulate the activity. For companies and the career-minded, the question is how to harness online social networking to boost the bottom line or become better at one’s job.

If you wanted to devise a solution to some worrisome trends on the horizon for the U.S. — threats to continued GDP and employment growth, an under-funded Social Security trust fund — you might consider a mechanism called immigration. Forecasters see challenges in the ability of a limited U.S. population expansion to support economic growth. An influx of immigrants is one obvious answer.

Turkey is establishing five venture capital funds with a total initial size of 628 million liras ($110 million) to support start-ups in the technology industry, Industry and Technology Minister Mustafa Varank said.

The funds, which will include capital from local and foreign investors, as well as the Treasury and Finance Ministry, are expected to grow to 1.1 billion liras, Varank said, according to local media including BloombergHT television.

The future of work is undoubtedly a hot topic right now, attracting attention from companies across all sectors.

No matter what kind of business you’re in, the future is coming – through transformed HR processes, updated technologies or new methods of communicating.

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When he isn’t busy working on the company that changed the internet forever, Google co-founder Sergey Brin has some interesting hobbies: ultimate frisbee, springboard diving and flying trapeze, to name a few.

The internet entrepreneur encourages his team to take up fun, physical activities, too. He’s reportedly led Google employees on bonding events at the Circus Center, a training facility in San Francisco where students learn high-adrenaline hobbies like -- you guessed it -- flying trapeze.

Data hubs set up across the UK from October this year will enable cutting-edge research for health discoveries and aim to give patients across the UK faster access to pioneering treatments.

Ireland 🇮🇪 sitting at number 1! With over 70 million Irish Diaspora worldwide. 34 million people with Irish descent living in the USA 🇺🇸

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As you’ve likely heard, the ocean’s health is in trouble. You’re probably aware of overfishing and the harmful practices of fisheries driving a third of the planet’s fish stocks toward extinction, and you surely know about the unconscionable amount of pollution, in particular plastic, that we dump in the ocean. But that’s not the worst of it. The ocean is steadily warming; its oxygen levels are falling; and it is becoming more acidic, making conditions for life below the waves ever harder. Planet- warming greenhouse gases are the common enemy in that trio of changes. And by now we all know who has been creating those gases.