One broke college student e-mailed all her contacts and turned her wanderlust into Urban Escapes, a company that has just been acquired by LivingSocial.READ»
Steve Jobs and company have reason for a Cupertino celebratory cha-cha: Apple crushed quarterly revenues on the tails of huge iPhone sales. Today, Apple posted record earnings of $20.34 billion--way up from last year's quarterly ...READ»
Newsweek magazine may be in trouble, but its annual green rankings are one of the most comprehensive attempts to rank major companies based on sustainability. How does your company measure up?READ»
"This has cost the American people trillions of dollars," Ferguson tells Fast Company. If only he were talking about his film and not the deception behind the financial crisis.READ»
After years of having their Fannies spanked and their Goldmans smacked, are bankers, brokers, lawyers, and hedge fund managers prepared for the timely return of White Collar Boxing?READ»
While
catching up with old episodes of "Mad Men," I was
brought up short by a show-stopping quote from Roger Sterling. Sterling, the
senior partner at the Sterling Cooper Agency, tells Creative Director Don
Draper that he's been ...READ»
HP's board has just okayed $10 billion on share purchasing ... but it's not an M&A move: It's to buy shares in HP. What gives? Is HP desperately narcissistic or in deep and confusing financial trouble?READ»
Applying new technology is innovative, but the successful employ of old technology is ingenious. Recently I devoured an online article that I loved, totally, at Wired.com.
I work in the technology business, and I'm supposed to have a ...READ»
Looking for a biz book page-turner this summer? It features among other things insights into institutional ignorance and the dark side of innovation.READ»
As we try to make sense of the sorry state of American business leadership today, the real issue isn't, Where have the corporate heroes gone? The issue is, How do we know a corporate hero when we see one?READ»
Tony Hayward is reported to be out as the CEO of BP, with a sweet 600,000-pound pension waiting for him (that's $928K) as a "reward" for not only presiding over the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but performing like a whiny schoolboy ...READ»
