The Milken Institute and U.S. Small Business Administration Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets (PLUM) initiative aims to increase the amount of capital reaching minority-owned businesses and the number of successful minority...

The Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities U.S. index provides a way to measure which American metropolitan areas offer the greatest opportunities for prosperity and innovation across the nation. The BPC index measures each metro area’s...

While the San Francisco Bay Area's Silicon Valley and China’s Shenzhen operate under two different and distinct political and economic systems, both have been recognized as innovation and technology hubs with unique economic success. This...

LOS ANGELES, February 22, 2018 – Opportunities presented by an aging population will not be fully realized unless business leaders act to prepare for this irreversible shift in demography, according to a new report released by the Milken...

Opportunities presented by an aging population will not be fully realized unless business leaders act now to prepare for this irreversible shift in demography. To discuss the significance of population aging for the business sector and...

The Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities U.S. index provides a way to measure which American metros offer the greatest opportunities for prosperity and innovation across the nation. The index measures metropolitan areas economic...

SANTA MONICA, January 10, 2018 – Provo-Orem, UT, with its robust high-tech sector and broad-based job and wage growth, is the Best-Performing City in the United States, according to the Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities 2017 Index...

I recently read an article in The New York Times about tennis great Roger Federer and how he, at 36 years old, is experiencing a late-career resurgence. It is as though age is no longer a limiting definer. [1] No one in pro tennis, save...

Work dominates much of our adult lives. For many recent generations, work, family, and community comprised the entirety of our adult lives, with education occupying childhood for the lucky ones. Over time, a legal and regulatory framework...

Perceptions about age and the workplace are evolving. Just a handful of years ago, it was the expectation that older workers should leave the workplace at 65 years—a “retirement age” that dates back to the late 19th century. The recently...