The UN has launched a toolkit to help procurement professionals close the international gender gap by supporting women-owned businesses.

Forget about the old style of business networking. "Social" networking has brought a whole new meaning to the term.

More and more women today are stepping up as entrepreneurs. What will it take for them to succeed?

In January, Rodrigo Paolucci sold his 50-person video distribution startup in São Paulo, planning to go to business school overseas. Although he'd long dreamed of getting an MBA in Silicon Valley or New York, he applied only to the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. The reason: The Trump administration's anti-immigration rhetoric "makes it harder for foreigners," says Paolucci, who got a scholarship from Rotman that covers 40 percent of tuition.

It's a whole new era of supply chain, with demands that were scarcely imaginable decades ago, and the techniques for training both new and veteran supply-chain professionals must change accordingly. It's a whole new era of supply chain, with demands that were scarcely imaginable decades ago, and the techniques for training both new and veteran supply-chain professionals must change accordingly.

The so-called platform economy promises to drastically change the nature of work. Is that a bad thing, or a good thing?