Whether you are signing up a huge supplier, hiring an employee or thinking of making an investment, reference calls are absolutely crucial. Before I learned how to do them properly, they were purely ...

The right reference can help you land the job, but only if you ask the right person in the right way. Here’s how. My first piece of advice is to have more than one person in mind. Like a lot of things ...

These are some of the many things Graham Duncan, investor and chairman of the Sohn Conference Foundation and chairman emeritus of East Rock Capital, thinks about reference checks for job candidates.