After a devastating fire disrupted the livelihoods of business owners in the Caribou Village Shopping Center, Nederland is feeling the community’s support. On Saturday, the Nederland Strong rally ...

2011 was an uneven year for registered follow-on equity offerings (defined as Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)-registered transactions) in the life science industry. The first half of 2011 ...

Relentless optimism can blind organizations to risks, ignoring problems and eroding trust. Leaders often reward this bias, stifling early warnings. To build resilience, leaders need "grounded optimism ...

Can optimism ever be cruel? I came upon the phrase “cruel optimism” recently and couldn’t forget it. “Cruel optimism” seems like such a contradiction. After all, “optimism” is a word that shines with ...

When we launched WIRED, we were accused of being Pangloss­ian optimists. I embraced that as a badge of honor. The Digital Revolution was reinventing everything, and that was good. Twenty-five years on ...

Are you a glass-half-full kind of person, someone who views the world through rose-tinted glasses? Do you believe there is light at the end of the tunnel and that every cloud has a silver lining?

Two-thirds of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction, according to a survey conducted by polling firm Penn Schoen Berland. Pollster Mark Penn explains that though Americans are ...