It wasn’€™t just the nature of Brandon White’€™s videotaped beating, delivered by strangers amid a hail of anti-gay slurs, that captured the world’€™s attention this week. It was that the video, which went viral after it appeared on YouTube and other sites, was clearly created and perhaps even posted by one of the attackers.

With last month’s employment report showing signs the economy may finally be recovering, a group of business leaders who survived the great recession joined a crop of young entrepreneurs who are optimistic about their future despite it at the Kairos Global Summit on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange this weekend.

An overheated industry has gone bust. A tepid economy is not producing enough jobs. And a successful businessman promises he can use his private-sector experience to jump-start the economy.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Senator John F. Kerry joined 13 college presidents and some 100 students from across the area for a wide-ranging discussion yesterday that emphasized the need to keep higher education affordable for the middle class.

A student drops out of high school every nine seconds, according to a recent study conducted by the National Center on Secondary Education and Transition. In his recent State of the Union address President Obama proposed a relatively simple solution: require every state to keep all students in school until they graduate or turn 18.

Mitt Romney’s five sons — Matt, Tagg, Craig, Ben and Josh — are sitting pretty with a trust fund worth $100 million. Getting there took investments that produced great growth, according to the Romney campaign. It also took smart tax strategies.

January’s increase in hiring is good news, but it masks a bigger and more disturbing story — the continuing downward mobility of the American middle class.

Northeastern University’s College of Business Administration has named Hugh Courtney to its top spot. Mr. Courtney is currently vice dean and a strategy professor at University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, where he oversees its undergraduate, M.B.A. and M.S. degree programs, and leads the school’s executive-education arm. He will begin the new […]

CasePick Systems is a company I’ve been tracking since I had my first meeting with its founder, John Lert, in 2007. At the time, Lert did not want me to write about the company but he showed me some nifty animations of how robots might be able to move merchandise more efficiently around warehouses.

When U.S. News & World Report debuted its list of “America’s Best Colleges” nearly 30 years ago, the magazine hoped its college rankings would be a game-changer for students and families. But arguably, they’ve had a much bigger effect on colleges themselves.

Management consultant and business expert Peter Cohan does not plan on investing in Facebook stock any time soon. The author of 10 business books, including Capital Rising and Export Now, took a look at the social media network’s filings for its coming share sale, which could value it as high as $100bn, and knew he […]

The Manhattan Institute reports that U.S. metropolitan areas are now more integrated than any time since 1910. The migration of African Americans to the South, gentrification and immigration have all contributed to the shift. Yet some argue the decline of segregation does not mean racial inequality is obsolete.