In 2006, Andreas Widmer and his Seven Fund, a social equity venture fund, awarded Toms Shoes a prize as a model for an innovative enterprise solution to poverty. The award was given, in part, because ...

Journalist Rich Karlgaard says there’s plenty of scientific evidence that many people find their talents and gifts later in life. The recent college admissions scandal showed the extent to which ...

It was 2003, exactly 56 years after Ole Kirk Christiansen bought the first plastic injection molding machine in Denmark to start manufacturing plastic bricks for building-block toys. On the surface, ...

The frenetic pace of Twitter means that updates are often here now and then gone in seconds. Users of the micro-blogging site are rarely interested in content tweeted by followers for more than a few ...

New research from Wharton’s Peter Cappelli finds that while women’s job responsibilities are now closer to men's, the gender pay gap remains largely unchanged. It’s a common assumption that more women ...

New research from Wharton’s Henning Piezunka reveals a common mistake that businesses make when hiring a new manager into an established leadership team. You’ve carefully selected the right new ...

It’s a little like throwing a party that no one attends. When Gary Winnick founded Global Crossing in 1997, the demand for bandwidth to help more and more people surf the information superhighway ...

ICOs are catching on as a new way for startups to raise money. But most don't succeed. New Wharton research looks at how that can change. The initial coin offering, or ICO, is catching on as a new way ...

The super-rich have an affinity for private equity investment, an appetite for risk, and copious savings, according to a study of wealth creation in Norway over 22 years. “The main idea of the paper ...

For more than 50 years, the World Bank, donor nations, various aid agencies, national governments, and, lately, civil society organizations have all tried to but failed to eradicate poverty. The ...

Take big risks, but take them very carefully. That, in so many words, was the advice recently offered by Tom Perkins, who could be considered one of the world’s leading authorities on the topic.

In an increasingly competitive marketplace, it’s no longer good enough for company to sell a product through a simple, one-time transaction with shoppers they may never see again. Businesses can ...