Topic: Kraft Foods Inc.

Management Bites Dog Food Factory

It started as an experiment in workplace democracy and set performance records. So why did the bosses want to shut it down?READ»

World Food Business Summit

These are turbulent times, even for the allegedly recession-proof food industry. Here are the trends three leaders are seeing as they prep for this gathering (June 17-19) in New York. --Theunis Bates "You can't go into ...READ»

National German Chocolate Cake Day

Cocktail-party factoid for the day: German chocolate cake--that messy and ridiculous pile of layer cake, coconut, and pecans slathered with caramel-infused goo--has nothing to do with Germany. It's actually named for Samuel German, ...READ»

World Food Business Summit Leaders Dish Future Trends

These are turbulent times, even for the allegedly recession-proof food industry. Here are the trends three leaders are seeing as they prep for this gathering (June 17-19) in New York.READ»

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Poet-in-chief

Once, Dana Gioia sold Jell-O. And he wrote poetry. Now, he's got a high-profile job that demands both skill sets.READ»

Ideo Reimagines the Lowly Thermostat

Ideo reimagines the lowly thermostat.READ»

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Everything I Need to Know I Learned (or Didn't Learn) in Business School

Okay, so I didn't go to Harvard. But I did graduate from that other Massachusetts university with such celebrated alumni as Tipper Gore and Hadassah Lieberman. Boston University may not have the brand-name appeal of Harvard ...READ»

A Piece of Work

Three decades after the groundbreaking book Work in America, its authors tell us how things really turned out.READ»

Food and Beverage Companies Need to Cut Carbon Emissions, or Else

Trucost, an environmental data provider, released a report revealing the greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprints of S&P 500 companies in a number of sectors with the intention of helping said companies prepare for the ...READ»

Laura Cooke

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Chatter

Low-Carb Carnage.READ»

How to Be Your Own Futurist

Advice from Watts Wacker on how to stay ahead of the curve.READ»

Beg, Borrow, Stimulate

Meeting I Never MissREAD»

Next Stop - The 21st Century

Unit of Twenty-OneREAD»

Online Marketing Research: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times

A little more than two years ago, just when online research had become a major source of data for marketers looking to keep their fingers on the pulse of consumers, Procter & Gamble’s marketing research leadership dropped a bomb.READ»

Have You Seen the Five Faces of Genius?

Understanding how you think is just as important as what you think about, says Annette Moser-Wellman, founder of the FireMark consultancy. She teaches managers how to identify their creative style.READ»

Java Man

As one of only 48 certified coffee graders in the country, Ed Faubert sits at the center of a $19 billion industry. READ»

The Money Value of Time

The way to assess your ability to compete in Internet time is to ask yourself how creatively you use time.READ»

"Don't Drink the Grape-Flavored Sugar Water..."

The Consultant Debunkers find a certain saying hard to swallow.READ»

The 10 Faces of Innovation

In an exclusive book excerpt from the general manager of Ideo, we meet the personality types it takes to keep creativity thriving--and the devil's advocate at bay.READ»

Profiting For a Good Cause

You know him as Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy, and -- last but not least -- the Salad Dressing Guy. But you may not know that actor Paul Newman is also a pioneer in outsourcing. In a good way, of course. In fact, the Newman's Own ...READ»

Greatest Business Leaders of the 20th Century

Classic entrepreneurs who built companies from scratch dominate the list of the best. Shockingly, only one woman -- Estee Lauder -- made the top 50 of Professors Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin Nohria's list of top 100 business leaders.READ»

Careers: Working Abroad is Less Foreign to Women

Will working abroad fast-track your career? The answer has often been yes for men, but a question mark for women who used to be passed over for foreign assignments. In the book Get Ahead by Going Abroad authors C. Perry Yeatman and ...READ»

Professional Social Media Training

I wrote an article today on my main site blog about social media training, specifically how professionals can learn to think outsite the box and strategically learn from a network of experts. I wanted to share it with everyone here, ...READ»

Fast Talk: Wising Up the Idiot Box

If you think the changes in TV in the past five years--TiVo, digital cable and satellite, and video on demand--are radical, you haven't seen anything.READ»