One bad hire can cost a company 30 percent of the employee’s first-year earnings, while some estimate the cost between $240,000 and $850,000 per employee.

Tax avoidance by the superwealthy is an economic issue as well as a political one.

Sometimes their daughter's or son’s adolescent passage can weary parents: “It’s just one difficulty after another. Deal with the last and right away we’re faced with the next!” In their tired eyes, ...

Entrepreneurs who build successful businesses often possess a unique ability to see what others don't—the critical bottlenecks hiding in plain sight that create frustration, inefficiency, and lost ...

If you want to get people’s attention to address a problem, making it seem as big as possible is a nearly universal reflex. Across more than a dozen experiments, they find that describing how big a ...

Democrats have a problem: too many problems. Identifying the problems is not one of those problems. “Democrats have a trust problem,” suggests Representative Jason Crow of Colorado. “Democrats have a ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...

If you want to accentuate the importance of a problem, it seems sensible to explain how prevalent it is. Lots of people are at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Lots of women carry a gene that makes them ...

Creative problem-solving can be an exhilarating experience. You get a triple benefit: the euphoric 'aha' moment of solving a puzzle, the pride of accomplishing a goal, and the deeper self-discovery of ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Demonstrators: We need clean air, not another billionaire. We need clean air ...