As millions of students and their parents continue to contemplate and question the value of a COVID-era collegiate experience, there has been a lot of talk about the beloved “gap year.” Not surprisingly, thousands of U.S. college students opted to take one in the current academic year. But soul-searching young people aren’t the only ones […]
Tokyo-based Rakuten launched away in 1997 as an internet market but has as sprawled in Amazon-like style , moving into areas like traveling, banking and payment. Nevertheless, while its main executive Mickey Mikitani advised his CEO buddies he intended to shoot Rakuten to the telecom business, they cautioned him we’d neglect. The company is brutally […]