Humans are not as rational as they love to assume. Everybody has cognitive biases that affect their thinking, memory, and judgement. Cognitive biases form as a result of the brain attempting to ...

Penn’s Venture Lab has launched a new initiative aimed at addressing gender biases in entrepreneurial ecosystems. The two-week program, titled “Breaking the Bias,” includes a series of events designed ...

Nearly 50% of new businesses fail within the first five years. Many former entrepreneurs apply for 9-to-5 jobs to get back on their feet, but new research reveals an unexpected obstacle: hiring bias.

Sometimes entrepreneurs do what many of them consider unthinkable: abandon their business to go become a salaried employee at a regular job. “It's really critical for them to be able to explain the ...

We’ve all heard the romanticized tales of teenage dropouts who build tech empires from their garages and become billionaires before they’re old enough to rent a car. This narrative has become so ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Melissa Houston covers financial issues that affect women in business. Despite significant progress over the past few decades, ...

Like it or not, cognitive biases have the power to negatively impact your role as an entrepreneur. These baked-in tendencies of the human brain are almost like bugs in our software. If properly ...

Owning a business is often seen as the absolute pinnacle of professional living, but make no mistake, it takes hard work and dedication to make it to the top of the summit. Entrepreneurs must scrape ...