The World’s Most Influential CEOs And Business Executives Of 2021

Does it matter how the public views a company? Does the reaction to its name drive sales of its products or services higher or lower? Brand experts have considered this question for decades. The results are not conclusive. Well-known brands like Facebook are often poorly regarded by the public, yet it has over 2 billion […]

Meta and Amazon each spent considerably more on lobbying in 2021 than fellow Big Tech giants Apple and Google.

Who’s in, who’s out, who’s been promoted and hired — FN covers all the industry changes in one place. Know of an executive on the move? Tell us at web@footwearnews.com. Jan. 24, 2022: Diesel has appointed Eraldo Poletto as CEO for North America. Poletto, a manager with many years of experience in the fashion industry, will report to Diesel’s global CEO, Massimo Piombini, and will take charge of the company’s development on a key market with great growth potential for the brand. He takes up his post immediately. Poletto has worked in the luxury and retail sectors for about 30 years....

Tumbling tech stocks and cryptocurrencies have seen the fortunes of some of the world’s richest people take a hit over the past week.Bloomberg reports that Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk lost $25.1bn (£18.5bn), Amazon’s Jeff Bezos saw a $20bn (£14bn) drop in his fortune, Changpeng Zhao of Binance lost $17.7bn (£12.5bn), and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is $10.4bn (£7.6bn) worse off.It was the worst week for the stock market since the crash at the onset of the pandemic.Big-name companies suffered, with Peloton falling below its IPO price and Netflix suffering its steepest drop in a decade. Stocks in chipmakers...

Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest-growing businesses, but other retailers are scrambling to copy its success.

Human resources chief Valerie Capers Workman defended Tesla after the company lost a high-profile racial discrimination case in 2021.

A cryptocurrency CEO has become one of the richest people on Earth. Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, who runs the crypto exchange Binance, has joined the ranks of the world's top billionaires, with an estimated net worth of at least $96 billion, according to new calculations from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index published Monday.

Nudge theory, as we know, is a concept that proposes indirect suggestions as ways to influence the behaviour and decision making of individuals or groups. As positive reinforcements, nudging contrasts with other ways to achieve compliance, such as education, mandates, or legislation. Drawing on behavioural economics, the nudge is more...

Amid a well-publicized worker shortage and near record-low unemployment, Mike Conley, an Indiana-based software engineer seeking a new job faced a seemingly incredulous situation. Conley, who has 25 years of experience, withdrew from consideration for “a role I wanted, the pay I wanted, all the benefits I wanted” at a...

News that You & Mr Jones is now The Brandtech Group will come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the holding group since its 2015 launch. For starters, founder David Jones has always described his business this way, going so far as to trademark the “brandtech” term. A name change was always on the cards. It’s the timing of it that’s interesting. Not only is the holding group past the hype cycle peak these businesses usually encounter, it’s skipped right over the trough of disillusionment that tends to follow and is straight into growth mode.

The primary workplace challenge of 2022 will be around talent: Attracting talent, getting the best from the talent you hire, and retaining talent. The work landscape has shifted dramatically and companies need to change with it. There continues to be an extreme skilled-worker shortage that started even before the recent pandemic. This shortage was due to changing demographics, but has been amplified by older workers voluntarily quitting their jobs and retiring early to avoid the increased risk from COVID-19 and its variants as well as to take advantage of increased savings and record returns on retirement funds over the past few years. Workers that remain in the workforce are demanding better pay and more flexible working arrangements, which for many includes the ability to continue to work virtually.

As the old joke runs, “it’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” That said, the ability to help clients anticipate the future, embrace new opportunities and transform their operations has always been a central part of Arthur D. Little’s consulting philosophy. It’s fitting then...

It’s January 2022 and we continue to be inundated with news and views postulating what the ‘post-covid’ world of work will look like. Will there be a global ‘great resignation’? Will we or can we continue to work from home? What would a permanent hybrid workforce look like? Will we travel interstate or even overseas to see clients or will Zoom remain the dominant form of communication? And so on and so forth.

This year challenged the business community with the greatest challenges yet, and as the nation continues navigate a global pandemic, I anticipate this year will continue to bring us more. However, we do not become the best companies and leaders by being untested. C-Suite executives have had a pretty rough...

Management consultancy has often been a target of criticism, with popular brickbats including eye-watering fees, huge contracts, secretive ways of working and an apparent ability to make money out of any crisis. However, most decision-makers and executives recognize the value that the best management consultants provide, and the industry continues to thrive, with compound annual growth rates in excess of 4% per annum over the last 10 years. The global management consulting market today is approximately $150 billion, and most leading firms have survived the COVID-19 crisis remarkably well.

The pandemic has upended the talent world. There are two forces at play. First, unlike previous workforce upheavals, this one has been led by employees choosing to part ways with their employers, not by employers paring their headcount. The “frozen in time” nature of the pandemic has caused many to reflect on their career paths. Decisions to relocate and work remotely, as well as to pivot and pursue a completely different option, are increasingly common.

The workplace as we know it is changing, and it requires more flexibility than ever. But when we say “flexibility,” what do we really mean?. Many organizations say that they’re offering flexibility by offering a “hybrid” schedule, one in which employees work from home on certain days and at the office on others.

It’s nice to be young, to be in the mood for work and to start your own business from scratch. The following CEO’s are self-made and although they are very young they make a lot of money. Mark Zuckerberg: All started for Mark Zuckerberg from a dormitory room...

Let me share my recent experience at an Apple Store in Connecticut:. The story begins with my daughter giving me a brand new iPhone which she had purchased via a contract upgrade (never used, still in the shrink-wrap). This was right about at the time when COVID hit the world. Not interested in finding a store during quarantine, I tucked it in a drawer and forget about it.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed countless aspects of how we do business. Regardless, one trend that has been growing in popularity even before the pandemic — offering a stellar customer experience — is set to become a mainstay. Here’s how to shore up your own CX to stay ahead of the competition and secure great results.