Ragu Bhargava is not only a successful serial entrepreneur, he is probably the most optimistic one. In his view, there is no problem that cannot be solved. Ragu’s driving idea – the idea that animates his life, that guides his business and makes him show up to work at 4:00 am – is that there […]
Jack Ma wasn't born rich but now he is the richest man in Asia. This Bloomberg profile tells the story of how Ma started as a poor kid in China's countryside, learned English, got rejected from a job at KFC but then went on to found Alibaba, the massive e-commerce site. Video by Vicky Feng, […]
From risks to opportunity, AI is set to drive a whole new way of doing business, and the way CEOs interact with technology is about to change in so many new ways. Below Tim Pullan, CEO and Founder of ThoughtRiver, explains to CEO Today the unlikely yet inevitable relationship between leaders and AI. CEOs are […]
From Elon Musk to Kim Jong-un, people at the top are loved and hated worldwide, but what truly makes a leader? Isaac Getz is Professor at ESCP EUROPE Business School, and author of award-winning book Freedom, Inc. Here Prof. Getz explains to CEO Today what truly forms the defining attributes of a real leader. In […]
Mark Cuban has had a remarkable career as a businessman, investor, and NBA owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Here are his 9 tips for saving money, getting a better return on your investments, building wealth, bitcoin and getting rich.
Discovering your roles and responsibilities will be a big part of your first few months of being a CEO. One of the key tips from Benedetta Arese Lucini, CEO of Oval Money, points towards engagement. Benedetta’s personal experience shows that though it is tempting to focus exclusively on internal issues, staying engaged with outside groups is vital […]
The bakery business is in Marianne Kirkegaard’s blood. Well, figuratively speaking. The daughter of a second-generation Danish baker, Kirkegaard—now president and CEO of CSM Bakery Solutions—spent much of her early years inside and around the two bakeries owned by her father, Hans Kirkegaard and her mother Ketty. “My dad took over his father’s bakery at […]
Business School research suggests cultural heritage can influence corporate profitability and success. Led by academics from University of Edinburgh Business School and The University of St Andrews, the study analysed the performance of banks directed by more than 600 US-born Chief Executive Officers who were children or grandchildren of immigrants. The study found leaders whose […]
When it comes to leadership, the likes of Weinstein and Donald Trump are often whose faces paint the papers with colour. However, it’s often the invisible leaders that make strides in leading their teams. The ability of a leader to take a back seat and let their team shine is a hard skill and it's all linked […]
At the age of four, Mikaila Ulmer used her determination and great-grandmother’s recipe to turn her lemonade stand into a full lemonade enterprise, proving that "something special can be born out of a very simple, very small idea.” Now 12 years old, Mikaila has founded Me & the Bees, a small business that's thriving because […]
Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma and Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev participated in a plenary session on digital economy at the 2017 Moscow International Forum 'Open Innovations', in the Russian capital, Tuesday. According to Ma, "in the next 30 years, [the] internet is going to be as important as electricity. [The] internet is more important […]
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