The largest market for leveraged loans is the US, where industries including technology, energy, telecommunications, and healthcare are using the debt to fund mergers and acquisitions, buyouts, dividends, or share buybacks. “In other words, for financial risk-taking rather than plain-vanilla…
While some might assume that frequently shifting your attention between different information streams is good brain training for improving memory and attention, studies have found the opposite to be true.One recent study found that self-reported “heavy media multitaskers” performed worse…
Instead of viewing itself primarily as a hardware manufacturer, Siemens is becoming a provider of value-added services, such as those that help utilities increase the uptime of their turbines. Teams that cut across business units identify opportunities to create value…
Shoppers automatically become NikePlus members after downloading the Nike app—membership that bestows on them such perks as discounts, personalized recommendations and exclusive product offers. Mobile is at the center of people’s everyday life, and when people come into the store, they…
“The Bible Code,” a 1997’s book by the reporter Michael Drosnin popularized the idea. His book claimed to use the earliest parts of the Bible to predict the assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the Gulf war, and…
Between 1970 and 2014, populations of vertebrate animals declined by an average of 60 percent. Freshwater animals have it even worse, with drops of about 83 percent. Plastic waste is up. So is deforestation. We need to act now Read…
What’s special about alpha is that it’s regarded as the best example of a pure number, one that doesn’t need units. It actually combines three of nature’s fundamental constants – the speed of light, the electric charge carried by one…
English is a phenomenal language, but there are circumstances where words seem to fail us.Often, other languages have already found a solution to expressing the complicated ideas that can’t be succinctly conveyed in English.If you’ve ever wanted to describe the…
There is no group more intimately aware of this fact than our Millennials; a lifetime of over-connectedness has shaped them into down-to-earth realists who aren’t focused on price, but on purpose. If your brand values don’t align with theirs, you’re…
It is required to demonstrate a fundamental mind shift from a focus on battling specific threats to a threat-agnostic approach. When you take this approach, you focus on what might be called meta-readiness: preparing your own innate ability to handle…
