In 2010, the Copiap mine in Chile collapsed and trapped 33 miners. Wharton professor Michael Useem talks about leadership lessons from how Chile's Minister of Mines Laurence Golborne navigated the crisis.

Hiring a top PR firm is often out of the question for start-ups. Here are five tips for how to handle your own public relations.For most journalists, taking a meeting with a vacuum salesman would be right up there with getting their teeth pulled. But when we worked as reporters and James Dyson came to town, we always took the meeting.Dyson—the founder of the eponymous appliance company that's best known for it's see-through vacuums and quirky commercials—isn't just a brilliant ...

Ring the bells: It's a landmark day for Wall Street and Silicon Valley as the world's biggest social network becomes a public company.The American Dream is alive and well in Menlo Park.Facebook is going public Friday, after raising $16 billion Thursday at a valuation of more than $104 billion. Shares opened for trading shortly after 11 a.m., at $42.05, up slightly from the previously announced price of $38.This is the largest VC-backed tech IPO ever—10 times bigger than Google's IPO ...

What would happen to your business if you were called away on an emergency? Here are three tips to ensure it doesn't miss a beat.I was recently called away from the office for a family emergency. While sitting in the hospital waiting for news on my relative I began to wonder about the importance of having an orderly plan in place when people are unexpectedly called away from the office. When people go on vacation you have the opportunity to ...

Trying out new themes is fun, isn’t it? I think so! The thing about changing my blog’s theme that has traditionally bugged me, though, is the 10-15 minutes right after you click “Activate” when you have to rush through uploading a new custom header, maybe resetting the background, fiddling with a new sidebar configuration, and other transition adjustments so that people won’t see your site in a half-switched state. Read more: Look Before You Leap