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What's the best way to solve our planet's economic, political, and social woes? Here's a thought: Why not encourage multibillionaires like Elon Musk to collectively take control of the world--or [...]

Despite the start of a new year, a lot of business problems haven't changed. When 2022 was winding down, a government report on workplace issues ended the year with a [...]

Given the turmoil in the crypto sector, some people say the blockchain revolution has been permanently cut off at the knees. Others think market setbacks and implementation challenges will eventually [...]

When it comes to selling coffee, promoting 'ethical beans' makes sense. Same goes for 'ethical diamonds,' and not just because respecting workers is the right thing to do. Simply put, [...]

As an academic who has spent decades researching and teaching sustainability, Ivey Business School Professor Tima Bansal remembers students revolting against the material she was teaching. 'The first time I [...]

People interested in supporting best practices related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues had a hard enough time figuring out where to invest before influential billionaire Elon Musk called [...]

The outside world didn't know what to expect when Vladimir Putin launched his senseless military assault on Ukraine. But with NATO on the sidelines, not many people in the West [...]

Following the recent trilateral leadership summit between Canada, the United States, and Mexico, the news media focused on the failure of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to secure exceptions from Buy [...]

The winds of change were clearly blowing during the latest Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) conference--where the need to better serve stakeholders outside the investment community was discussed as a [...]

Over a century ago, American retailer Frank Baum published The Art of Decorating Dry Goods Windows and Interiors, which, as an early manual on how to trim public-facing retail displays, [...]

As the founding chairman of shareholder services firm Kingsdale Advisors, Wes Hall was influential on Bay Street long before he launched the BlackNorth Initiative to combat systemic racism in corporate [...]

Dominic Barton, Canada's Ambassador to China, should be 100 per cent focused on his current job, which is key to our nation's performance on the international stage, not to mention [...]

As the son of a vaudeville entertainer, standup comedian Jacob Rodney Cohen had showbusiness in his blood. But his father was also a deadbeat dad, so Cohen was always worried [...]

As an intellectual, legal professional, working mom, and gender freedom fighter, there is no question that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg--who recently lost her latest battle with cancer-earned [...]

'Oh, ye of little faith.' Eleanor Byers imagined her mother scolding her with these words for questioning the strength of relationships formed by her husband while attending an executive education [...]

Effective management involves a clear and unambiguous commitment by all concerned to foster a culture that embraces the need for constant learning across the organization. This, of course, was true [...]

Brooks Brothers recently joined a long line of American businesses filing for bankruptcy amid the pandemic. This news didn't come as a huge surprise, since sales at the 200-year-old retailer [...]

Early January 3, 2020, American military personnel skillfully maneuvered an MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle through dark skies over Iraq. Acting on commands issued 9,980 km away by U.S. President [...]

Plenty of Canadians were shocked by social media posts showing Joyce Echaquan receiving verbal abuse instead of treatment before she died in a Quebec hospital. Same goes for video clips [...]

Extra. Extra. Read all about it. America's top CEOs recently issued a statement that says making money for shareholders isn't the only responsibility of management. This, of course, isn't news [...]

According to bitcoin lore, the world's first cryptocurrency transaction was made on May 22, 2010, when 10,000 BTC were exchanged for two pizzas. Bitcoin has been relatively well known in [...]

On the surface, Jeff Gramm's book Dear Chairman is just a fascinating history of the investor rights movement told through activist letters dating back to the 1920s. As such, at [...]

The pen is mightier than the sword, at least according to Cardinal Richelieu. In the historical play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton--who is ironically also known for penning a novel using the [...]

Nobody loves a good government scandal more than journalists and opposition party members, except perhaps policy pundits, pollsters, and Internet trolls. And that, in a nutshell, is why the political [...]

In a recent note on the business implications of COVID-19, McKinsey & Company advised corporate leaders to forget about trying to conduct 'business as usual' and focus instead on ensuring [...]

For more than a few companies, surviving the coming tidal waves of disruption will take more than a few tweaks to how business is currently done. According to Peter Weill, [...]

There are inspiring social entrepreneurs and then there are members of the Walking Lead, a group of teenage robotics engineers from Toronto's Glen Ames Senior Public School. Indeed, while competing [...]

According to bitcoin lore, the world's first cryptocurrency transaction was made on May 22, 2010, when 10,000 BTC were exchanged for two pizzas. Bitcoin has been relatively well known in [...]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did about as well as could be expected during his first face-to-face meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, at least from a business perspective. After [...]

Billionaire bad boy Donald Trump surprised the world by winning the U.S. Republican nomination race. He then surprised the world again by winning the White House. Shortly after, I penned [...]

Woodrow Wilson. Lester B. Pearson. Martin Luther King Jr. Mother Teresa. Desmond Tutu. Nelson Mandela.... Donald Trump. While thinking about this list of famous people, it isn't hard to imagine [...]

Few business leaders will ever confront the challenge that Landsbankinn CEO Steinthor Palsson faced in mid-2010, when he left a senior position with pharmaceutical company Actavis and signed on to [...]

As the battle to replace him in the White House raged, U.S. President Barack Obama issued a sadly ironic presidential proclamation. Calling on all Americans to put their best foot [...]

A year after a massive data breach at its flagship Ashley Madison adultery service, Toronto-based Avid Life Media relaunched in 2016 under a new corporate name. The move was designed [...]

Not that long before Chrysler's shot-gun wedding to Fiat in 2009, the smallest member of Detroit's not-so-big-anymore Big Three automakers was hitched to Daimler-Benz. When that relationship turned rocky in [...]

According to Canadian Minister of International Trade Chrystia Freeland, the decision by a slight majority of British voters to separate themselves from the European Union, and all its economic benefits, [...]

If the banking sector was looking for a theme song, many people would probably think 'Oops! ... I Did It Again' by Britney Spears fits the bill. After all, despite [...]

As Ivey Business School Professor Gerard Seijts notes in an IBJ Insight entitled 'Why We Should Thank Enron's Former Chief Financial Officer,' the Mike Duffy affair highlighted the fact that [...]

Not long ago, it was generally accepted that nice guys and gals finish last, at least in the cutthroat world of big business. A lot has obviously changed since American [...]

If you think you know your customers well enough, think again. It doesn't matter if sales are good and profitability meets expectations. Every organization, regardless of its earnings and marketing [...]

Anyone looking at stock charts these days obviously has a good reason to wonder if it is time to exit equity markets. After all, with stock indexes jumping up and [...]

After graduation with a Stanford MBA, Hap Klopp founded The North Face, where he served as President and CEO for 20 years and built the largest and most successful retailer [...]

It was not your typical Hallmark moment. After losing her beloved sister Miriam to kidney failure in 1993, Eva Kor spent hours in a Hallmark store, frantically trying to find [...]

When first reading about the hackers who stole massive amounts of sensitive customer information from Avid Life Media, I was sitting on my front porch and the distinctive voice of [...]

The data-mining industry has long been driven by hype as much as the potential for return on investment. It pays to remember this whenever you come across a reference to [...]

When it comes to new spending in government budgets, politicians are typically damned if they do and damned if they don't. The release of Canada's latest spending plan is a [...]

As an ambitious Iowa farm kid, Coeur Mining CEO Mitch Krebs always dreamed of running a company, imagining what it would be like to be surrounded by success like Donald [...]

Investors and consumers alike were clearly excited to learn in early March that Apple was readying itself to launch its first new product in five years, a smartwatch costing from [...]

Target obviously doesn't have much to brag about these days. But believe it or not, promotional material on the company's Canadian website was still proudly boasting about the company's history [...]