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When it comes to leadership, it looks like women are more competent and effective than men, especially when there’s a crisis. This is the conclusion of the latest study diving into management and gender by U.S. researchers and businessmen Jack Zenger and ...

Economist Ernesto Pernia may no longer be the socioeconomic planning secretary, but that doesn’t mean his words no longer hold weight. The former chief of the National Economic Development Authority, Dr. Ernesto Pernia has just released his new book “Virtuous Impatience,” a compilation ...

Founder and chairman of Jollibee Foods Corporation, Tony Tan Caktiong embodies the quintessential rags-to-riches story.Born into the second generation of a Chinese immigrant family, Tan Caktiong was exposed to hard work and perseverance at an early age. His father, the chef in ...

President Rodrigo Duterte has made it clear he has no plans to run for a second term in office, and has yet to announce support for his would-be successor. The 2022 presidential elections are less than two years away, and 2021 will ...

Read Ramon Ang's greatest quotes here."We should convince all the Filipino businessmen to invest and start working because if they are all going to hide in their homes, the investors or the financiers will all be okay but their employees will lose ...

When Sy family patriarch Henry Sy Sr. passed away in 2019, he left behind the country’s biggest conglomerate for his six children to run--as well as a hefty inheritance worth more than $19 billion (P914 billion).The six children of the late taipan ...

Maria Ressa, founder of Rappler and advocate of press freedom, is on this year's Bloomberg 50. She's the second Filipino to be honored on the elite list.The annual Bloomberg 50 recognizes the most influential leaders, icons, and innovators in the world per year. Last year’s ...

The world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, is an engineer. The Philippines’ last taipan, Lucio Tan, is an engineer. The head of all-knowing Google, Sundar Pichai, is an engineer.Graduating with a BS in engineering is not just a guarantee of your future as ...

Business educator Josiah Go is giving aspiring entrepreneurs an early Christmas gift this year with an affordable all-access pass to interviews, analyses, and videos of the country’s leading business executives.Go is the chairman of Mansmith and Fielders Inc., a marketing and sales training ...

Read Fernando Zobel de Ayala's greatest quotes here."We would like to be defined as a business group with a strong commitment to improving the lives of the communities we serve. With our group’s unique attributes in diversity, scale, and brand equity, we believe we ...

In an unprecedented public-private partnership, the government and the country’s leading businessmen gathered for a ceremonial signing of donations in a Zoom conference today, November 27.Over 30 businessmen were in attendance, from ports king Enrique Razon to San Miguel’s Ramon Ang, and all ...

Filipino businessmen and the private sector are leading the Philippines’ efforts to procure vaccines for the Filipino population.These tycoons include ICTSI president Enrique Razon, Philippine Airlines CEO Lucio Tan, Ayala Corp. CEO Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, and SM Investments co-chairperson Teresita ...

Jollibee Group’s president and CEO Ernesto Tanmantiong bagged the esteemed title of Entrepreneur of the Year from the Asia Leaders Award, which recognizes the movers and shakers in the region.Tanmantiong has been leading Jollibee as president and CEO since 2014, and has ...

Federico R. Lopez, chairman and CEO of First Philippine Holdings Inc. (FPH), First Gen, and Energy Development Corp., is this year's Management Man of the Year, a prestigious award given by the Management Association of the Philippines. The most recent previous awardees were ...

Edgar “Injap” Sia II’s name has become synonymous with success. The modern day tycoon became the country’s youngest billionaire in 2011 at only 34 years old. Nine years later at 43, it’s a title he still holds, ranking as the 21st richest Filipino ...

Ports billionaire Enrique Razon will help the government buy COVID-19 vaccines, which could arrive as early as the second quarter of 2021, an executive of his company said Tuesday.Razon will shoulder the full cost of a portion of the country's vaccine requirement, half of which ...

At Go Negosyo’s Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Conference, four of the country's biggest entrepreneurs and CEOs gathered to discuss the COVID-19 economy, with the topics ranging from macroeconomics, MSMEs, and government spending. The talk later pivoted to the integral role of leadership ...

At the media premiere of a new arnis documentary, Senator Miguel Zubiri poked a little fun at his sparse, spiky, all-white hairdo, complete with beard.It’s a big change (at least appearance-wise) from the Zubiri interviewed in the documentary, sporting a full head ...

JG Summit President and CEO Lance Gokongwei likened his task as being part of the next generation of leadership of the Gokongwei conglomerate as being "SMART" like Captain Ri in the blockbuster Korean drama series Crash Landing on You.In the Netflix series, ...

Forbes Asia annual list, Heroes of Philanthropy, is out and it has named the Philippines richest man, billionaire tycoon and former senator Manny Villar, as one of Asia’s leading philanthropists and the only Filipino on the list.Forbes Asia narrows down its (unranked) ...