Few women in Kenya have land title documents, and few are getting them, which means most are locked out of the chance to start a business - but loans can help.

Kagondu Njagi · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 08 Feb 2019

Fourth Industrial Revolution

Who is Alibaba's incoming chairman, Daniel Zhang?

Succession planning can be one of the trickiest aspects of running a business. When your senior leaders are looking to move on to new challenges how do you steady the ship? In September, ...

Sean Fleming 23 Jan 2019

Entrepreneurship

Do sleep, don’t have doubts. Jack Ma’s guide to sanity and success

The co-founder of China's internet giant Alibaba shares some unconventional words of wisdom.

Ceri Parker 23 Jan 2019

Entrepreneurship

Tech thinking has become too limiting – it must be disrupted

Design free-thought can break us out of the traps of ideology and commercial imperatives that have driven entrepreneurship in the past.

Jens Martin Skibsted 22 Jan 2019

Africa

How Africa's entrepreneurs are changing the direction of globalization

These three companies show why Africa provides the most fertile ground in which to innovate. It is where problems are most deeply felt, and are also big enough to motivate investment and ...

Rapelang Rabana 17 Jan 2019

China

China's spectacular winter festival has just kicked off

The festival boasts ice sculptures, replicas of historical monuments and landmarks, and even hosts a freezing cold swimming event.

Joyce Zhou and Ryan Woo · Reuters 07 Jan 2019

Future of Enterprise

5 ways for business leaders to win in the 2020s

Success in the coming decades isn’t just a matter of understanding new technologies – it’s understanding that change must begin now.

Rich Lesser, Martin Reeves, and Kevin Whitaker 02 Jan 2019

Retail, Consumer Goods and Lifestyle

Why do we still love books?

In spite of the rise of the internet, we are no less addicted to books. But the web is changing how authors reach their audiences.

Knowledge@Wharton 02 Jan 2019

Leadership

Business should be joyful – just ask the sports world

Joy at work should be a key performance indicator, because it promotes an invaluable team bonding that affirms the contribution of every employee.

Alex Liu 02 Jan 2019

Entrepreneurship

12 children's books that influenced highly successful people

From Harry Potter to Fantastic Mr. Fox, these childhood stories that have inspired actors, authors and entrepreneurs.

Business Insider · Business Insider 07 Dec 2018

Agile Governance

Q&A: What if the public sector worked more like TripAdvisor?

Lisa Witter, founder of new ideas-sharing platform Apolitical, explains why technology can only provide half the solution for government initiatives of the future.

Azeem Azhar and Lisa Witter 28 Nov 2018

Workforce and Employment

Companies that put employees first perform better

Business is waking up to the fact that the culture of quarterly-earnings reports and shareholder short-termism is toxic.

Brian Tomlinson and Alison Omens 23 Nov 2018

Entrepreneurship

What this study of knitters tells us about entrepreneurship

Women who join so-called 'stitch n bitch' groups in the US were 25% more likely to turn their hobby into a business, finds a survey of 400,000 knitters and crocheters.

Andrew Van Dam · The Washington Post 20 Nov 2018

Entrepreneurship

Don't dismiss start-ups founded by millennials. This is how they succeed

You don't have to wait until you're 42 to found a successful start-up, as a recent MIT study advised. Millennial entrepreneurs are taking shortcuts, and building skills agility instead.

Bozhanka Vitanova and Johan Bjurman Bergman 16 Nov 2018

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