by Admin | Aug 7, 2013 | Profiles, Women of Business
New Zealand’s National Business Review included Victoria Ransom, serial start-up entrepreneur and New Zealand native, on its list of richest people for the first time this year. The bulk of Victoria Ransom’s net value of 300 million dollars came from the recent...
by Admin | Aug 5, 2013 | Companies, Profiles
One of Britain’s most innovative new startups, Ticckle, is an online video debate site that provides a platform for users to get a point across in thirty seconds or less. Television personality and lord of the internet Stephen Fry has already embraced and backed...
by Admin | Aug 2, 2013 | News, Profiles
“Work smart, not hard.” A campaign in the 1970s used this slogan to promote college educations. That was in a time when far fewer Americans attended college. That was from a time when, to get a job, you didn’t necessarily have to go to college....
by Admin | Jul 31, 2013 | Companies, News, Profiles, Women of Business
Major defense contracting and global solutions company Lockheed Martin is making headway in gender equality with strong female leaders. This year the company gave its top position to Marillyn Hewson and made Sondra Barbour the head of its information systems...
by Admin | Jul 26, 2013 | Companies, News, Profiles
Ford Motor Company released its second quarter earnings this week, reporting a sixteen consecutive quarters run in profitability. The 2013 second quarter profits rose nearly twenty percent, the company seeing the biggest boosts in sales in North America and Asia,...
by Admin | Jul 24, 2013 | Companies, News, Profiles, Women of Business
The market is ever volatile, and any stability businesses can find is much sought after. That’s what DuPont’s CEO, Ellen Kullman, is looking to do. News has it that the company is looking to split off from its chemicals unit and focus more on food and agriculture....