Research conducted throughout the world shows gender balance in top positions contributes to improved competitiveness and better business performance.
My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz fundraising for them.
It's always interesting researching characters and as I get older and the more that I work in this business I do more and more of it because I realize how important it is.
Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead they have tremendous zeitgeist honed by paying attention to where they are.
When you are a great scholar of stupidity logics and marketing you can do practically everthing from business to trading from spiritual research to artistic criticism.
It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business as well as expensive.