Does your boss even appreciate how much time you’re spending in meetings every week? Probably not. Even though it might be easy to count the hours by looking at your Outlook or Google calendar, until recently, it was hard for organizations to compute those kinds of...
An unusual lawsuit in Utah is raising eyebrows among some legal and financial experts: A woman is suing herself in a wrongful death case. Earlier this week, the Utah Court of Appeals ruled that Barbara Bagley could indeed begin legal proceedings against herself....
Column by Bruce DeBoskey In the United States, nearly $1 trillion is committed to philanthropy — sitting in foundations, donor-advised funds and elsewhere. Donors have transferred ownership of these funds to separate entities and received their tax deductions. Yet...
Software that monitors employees who work at home. Electronic gear that tracks everywhere they go and how they drive while on the job. Technology that records their fitness and "happiness levels." Employers are rushing to embrace the Internet of Things, with its array...
Daniels Fund Board of Directors recently approved funding of more than $11 million over five years (2015-2019) to continue the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative. This comes after the Board evaluated the success of the five-year pilot program in eight universities, and...
Silicon Valley seems to have more than its share of companies behaving badly. Among up-and-comers in the tech world, privacy abuses and executive gaffes have become viral sensations. But is all that bad behaviour actually bad for business? Last week, Uber sparked...
From ethics to etiquette, fashions to values, cultural norms vary vastly from place to place – and companies that ignore the differences do so at their own peril. But what if a company is caught between two communities – and two sets of community values? For companies...
The smell of hot coffee and fresh-cut business cards greeted CCIM Live! attendees as they made their way into the Denver Sheraton’s South Convention Lobby on the first morning of CCIM’s 2013 annual conference. The first of two networking breakfasts was in full swing,...
Being a better consumer is a little like ordering a better cup of coffee — the more you know, the more complicated it is. That doesn't mean it has to be difficult, and it shouldn't deter you, either. Knowing what you're looking for means having priorities, and we...
