Forbes 400 member Alec Gores came to the U.S. from Israel when he was  15. (Photo credit: Tim Pannell for Forbes) Private equity billionaire Alec Gores’ first job after immigrating to the United States from Israel at age 15 was bagging groceries for 25 cents an hour at his uncle’s store in Flint, Michigan. He started the day after his family of eight arrived in November 1968 with just $40 and two suitcases to their name.

Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson, who donated works worth an estimated $400 million to the Art Institute of Chicago, were among America’s Top Givers of 2015. (Photo: Joe Schildhorn and Patrick McMullan/Getty Images) Pledging money to charity is one thing; actually writing a check to your preferred cause is quite another. In partnership with Shook Research, headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla., FORBES uncovered who put hard cash behind their philanthropic promises in 2015.

The number of legal jobs in the U.S. isn’t growing, but graduates of top law schools continue to fare well in the job market and earn enviable salaries. The Princeton Review just released its list of the law schools with the best career prospects. It surveyed 19,400 students and asked them to rate their law programs, collecting data from 172 schools. To view the top 10, see the gallery below.

Big data is predicting things about your life almost every minute of your day — whether you’re aware of it or not. Amazon is predicting what else you might like to buy every time you shop. Netflix is predicting what you might want to watch. Google is predicting how you will respond to your emails. And Match.com and other dating sites are even trying to predict who you might fall in love with.

Yachts are showing at the 26th edition of the Monaco Yacht Show, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015, in Monaco.The Monaco Yacht Show, taking place at Port Hercules in Monaco, is the only boat show devoted exclusively to luxury yachting. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau) HOW EXPENSIVE is the 1% lifestyle? For the past 40 years FORBES has answered that with our Cost of Living Extremely Well Index (CLEWI).

Brazi Bites Founders Junea Rocha & Cameron MacMullin on Shark Tank Season 7 – courtesy of ABC/Sony Pictures “You’ve got a feeding frenzy for your Brazilian bites,” Robert Herjavec said on the air as my co-founder and I were asked to hurry up and choose one of the three offers we had just received on Shark Tank. Three offers as well as raves about our product. And none of it was luck. Well, that’s not exactly true.

Photo credit: Shutterstock In the course of my career as a business journalist and in writing this leadership blog, I’ve come across tons of information in print, on video and in-person that cuts to the core of good leadership. Surprisingly little of it has to do with getting an MBA or going through executive training courses. A lot has to do with “emotional intelligence” and common sense.

We are coming to the point in history where regular, full-time employment is going away and being replaced by project-based work. We can see this evolution all around us. No one’s job is secure. Your company could be having meetings in Hong Kong or Philadelphia right now that will put you out of work next week. Most working people have no idea what higher-level currents are swirling around their organizations that will affect their livelihoods in the near or long-term future.

When you’re interviewing for a job and the job looks interesting and the company also likes you, it’s an intoxicating feeling. It’s not any different from the other side of the desk. When you meet a candidate whose energy and experience you like and you start to think “This person could help us a lot,” you go through the same steps. You learn more about your candidate as you talk more and more, and you start to picture this person in the job.

It’s a pain in the neck to job-hunt, and most working people wouldn’t take the time and spend the energy on a stealth job search if their current job were worth keeping. One of the biggest problems in corporate and institutional workplaces is that poorly-equipped managers send their best talent away. They manage people so badly that their employees feel they have no alternative except to launch a job search and go work someplace else.