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Flood insurance is more important than ever given forecasts for more serious flooding due to climate change. Yet only about a third of at-risk homeowners have coverage — most all through the government. Can a private market change that?

Finding a new job within your chosen field can be daunting, but changing careers entirely presents an even bigger challenge. A new book by psychologist Dawn Graham explains what it takes to make it happen.

The U.S. must wake up to the seriousness of cyber attacks on its sovereignty, economy and way of life, experts said at the Penn Wharton Budget Model’s first Spring Policy Forum.

Analytics are uncovering a deeper understanding of what customers value. One insight: Successful insurgent companies rely more on emotional marketing appeals than incumbents.

Following the Red Hen incident with Sarah Sanders, a question arises: How far should businesses go in expressing political views? Wharton and other experts weigh in.

Contently co-founder Shane Snow says it’s not always a good thing if team members get along too well.

Bill Kilday from Google spinoff Niantic says a second wave of innovation in mapping is coming, and it has to do with augmented reality.

When the GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, shut down, taking thousands of jobs with it, the town had to figure out a new future.

From mid-2015 to 2017, Vanke, one of China’s largest real estate developers, became embroiled in a drawn-out hostile takeover bid. The battle started when a relatively unknown Chinese activist investor, the Baoneng Group, quietly began to buy up shares of this star performer. By late 2015, Baoneng emerged as Vanke’s…Read More

Founded in 2003, Hong Kong-listed Sunac China Holdings Ltd. has achieved meteoric growth over the past decade to become one of the country’s largest residential property developers. The company rapidly expanded in an era when a diminished supply of attractive properties, rising project development costs, and intense competition with existing…Read More