Class of 2022 to Highlight 100 Extraordinary Black Women in the C-Suite and Executive Leaders including Dara Treseder, SVP and Head of Global Marketing, Peloton; Cindy Kent, COO of Everly Health; JoAnn Jenkins, CEO of AARP; Caroline Wanga, CEO of Essence; Dr. Aida Habtezion, Chief Medical Officer, Pfizer; Among others […]
Simon Business School launching a new online master’s degree in business analytics for managers
The program will provide an analytics curriculum for a more experienced group of students, seeking to effectively bridge the gap between analytics and leadership, according to Mitchell Lovett, an associate professor of marketing and senior associate dean of education and innovation at the Simon Business School. The business analytics program […]
IBM Sells Watson Health Assets to Investment Firm
International Business Machines Corp. IBM -0.44% agreed to sell the data and analytics assets from its Watson Health business to investment firm Francisco Partners, the companies said Friday. Newsletter Sign-up The 10-Point. A personal, guided tour to the best scoops and stories every day in The Wall Street Journal. The […]
Bespoke Partners Welcomes New Chief Financial Officer | News
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan 24, 2022– Bespoke Partners, a leading provider of accelerated executive search services for the private equity market, today announced that Prakash Patel has joined the firm as Chief Financial Officer. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220124005732/en/ Prakash Patel, Chief Financial Officer, Bespoke […]
19-Year-Old Beauty Entrepreneur Lands A Deal With Mark Cuban
On Friday, Tania Speaks, a 19-year-old entrepreneur, stood before the Sharks on ABC’s Shark Tank, a reality show allowing business owners to pitch potential investors. Mark Cuban and Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, are usually the most rigid investors to impress on the show. However, Speaks did so with incredible […]
El Salvador president posts meme wearing McDonald’s uniform
El Salvador’s crypto-enthusiast president appears to be taking the recent steep drop in bitcoin in stride: After all, if running a country doesn’t work out, there’s always McDonald’s. Nayib Bukele, whose country was the first to adopt bitcoin as legal tender last year, changed his Twitter profile photo on Saturday […]
Chamath Palihapitiya Has Deep Business Ties to China
Last weekend, Chamath Palihapitiya waded into the issue of China’s human-rights violations against its Muslim Uighur population when he threw up his hands at the whole thing. A former Facebook executive, part owner of the Golden State Warriors, and a billionaire financier behind the SPAC boom last year, he has […]
Kelley School No. 1 for 2 degree programs in U.S. News online program rankings: News at IU: Indiana University
EDITOR’S NOTE: This release was updated Jan. 25, 2022, to correct the description of the online psychology program. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Four degree programs and specialties in Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and one specialty in the School of Education are ranked No. 1 in the latest U.S. News […]