Assumption #1: No One Goes into Business to Lose Money Seems obvious but is as basic a business concept as there can be. This notion provides accounting and business professionals with the ...

Biologists speaking at a symposium in Washington, D.C., last week warned that fundamental assumptions underlying current fisheries management practices may be wrong, resulting in management decisions ...

No matter where we look, the same rules apply everywhere in space: countless calculations of astrophysics are based on this basic principle. A recent study by the Universities of Bonn and Harvard ...

Of course this represents a business win for WTW, but it is more important to observe how the client base itself has fully committed to preparing for the long-term financial future. There is a new ...

No matter where we look, the same rules apply everywhere in space: countless calculations of astrophysics are based on this basic principle. A recent study, however, has thrown this principle into ...

The way tax cuts are supposed to help the economy is through incentives to work, spend, and invest. If you get to keep more of your pay, you might work harder, and then have more money to spend on ...

If the financial markets' behavior during the last decade hasn't caused you to occasionally question some of the most basic assumptions of modern finance, then you're probably either a true ...

The Assumption Reversal Technique The assumption reversal technique is one of the most popular activities in my creativity and innovation workshops. I learned about it when I was co-authoring a ...

The model used by our financial planner relies on a lot of assumptions. It assumes we've correctly estimated our expenses thirty years from now. It assumes the economy will continue to grow over ...