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Jeffrey Smith, CEO at Starboard Value — a hedge fund which helped turnaround Darden Restaurants — explains his firms ‘operational activist’ investment approach.

Author and journalist Emily Chang says gender discrimination in Silicon Valley could lead to bias being baked into the tech algorithms of the future.

The World Cup has seen a major shakeup in sponsorship in recent years, with Chinese firms emerging as key spenders despite the nation having played in the tournament just once — 16 years ago.

Companies that integrate brand and culture are more successful than those that keep the two separate, notes a new book by Denise Lee Yohn.

Greentown, one of China’s largest real estate companies, is a market leader in deploying an asset-light business model.

Evergrande Group’s Sea Venice real estate project has attracted hordes of buyers in China’s leisure property market.

Today’s consumers care most about convenience; paying a few dollars more in sales tax won’t stop them from shopping online, experts say.

Panelists at the Penn Wharton Budget Model’s inaugural Spring Policy Forum discussed the need for robust, nonpartisan analysis to guide policy making.

Wharton finance professor Chaojun Wang, whose research looks at financial market organization, explains the conditions that lead to too-big-to-fail banks.

Wharton finance professor Chaojun Wang, whose research looks at financial market organization, explains the conditions that lead to too-big-to-fail banks.