Leadership

Kim Kaiser’s son was 10 years old when she first spoke with him about the challenges he’d face as a black man with disabilities.

In late May, Amsterdam-based Otrium, an online marketplace for end-of-season clothes, announced that it had raised €24 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Eight Roads Ventures, with existing investors Index Ventures and Hans Veldhuizen also participating.

Today, a lawsuit is expected to be filed by the Project on Predatory Student Lending at Harvard Law School and the Public Citizen Litigation Group against Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for her policy to provide partial forgiveness to defrauded student borrowers.

Recently, I sat down with Steve Pacheco, the President/CEO of the American Advertising Federation, to hear his thoughts about leadership and how businesses can move ahead in the current climate.

Proponents of this concept contend that modern-day police infrastructure has sucked up the lion’s share of financial resources in most large, urban cities. These funds, they claim, can be put to better use.

Mentors with experience and social capital are important, but peer mentors are equally critical yet often overlooked.

While it is difficult to underestimate the financial stress of unemployment, there are a number of serious mental health externalities that can manifest when an employee is left, unexpectedly and involuntarily, without work.

We are living through an historical transformation in the nature of American power. The fourth rupture in the country’s short history, the current social movements cascading across America’s cities and the world represent a political revolution.

In the current climate where consistent and perpetual acts of racism have led to demonstrations all over the world, is it now time for leaders to march towards making diversity and inclusion a key component of organizational and operational processes?

The coronavirus pandemic is likely to result in an unprecedented recession, but new research urges policy makers not to use the crisis to erect further barriers to immigration, as this will almost certainly make the recession worse