Topic: Wachovia Corporation

Financial Chaos on Wall Street May Make Corporations Socially Irresponsible

Amid chaos in the financial sectors, the trillion dollar bailouts, and the cannibalizing of historic financial institutions around the world, there is a small stage being set. It is being meticulously prepared by the stage hands of ...READ»

Perspectives On Wachovia

I read in the news yesterday where Wachovia Bank lost $8.9 BILLION last quarter - mainly in the mortgage idiocy, apparently - and summarily laid of 6,340 people without so much as a 'by your leave'. 6,340 people is just about 50% ...READ»

Slavery and Profits, Then and Now

Wachovia Bank yesterday released a report on its history as a slave-owning and slave-profiting institution, with details going back almost 200 years. The report was motivated by laws passed by the cities of Chicago and Phliadelphia, ...READ»

How to Make Banking Fun

Can innovative new programs make saving money as fun as spending it? READ»

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Kate Millett

College: Wake Forest University Major: Communications Hometown: Carrboro, North Carolina Age: 22 First Job: Operations manager for Wachovia Bank in Atlanta. "I'm going to be managing a team of 15 people. For instance, if you have a ...READ»

Judge the Nudge

1. Paper Route USA Today became the nation's largest daily newspaper by getting inertia on its side. Twenty-two percent of its average daily circulation of 2.3 million readers comes from getting its paper distributed in ...READ»

• Get Laziness on your Side

Where Women Want to Work

Earlier this week, I was pleased to see former Fast Company staffer Jill Kirschenbaum on television, as well as quoted in several newspaper articles. The reason? Now editor in chief of Working Mother magazine, Jill was talking about ...READ»

Crises Opportunities

Specific crisis opportunitiy long and short tradesREAD»

Working for the Enemy

How to cope when your biggest rival snaps you up.READ»

The Net/Net

A go-to guide of the products and services featured in this month's issue.READ»

Leading Listener: Trader Joe's

Customer feedback doesn't have to come from sophisticated research. At Trader Joe's, it's all about listening to people.READ»

Index to Advertisers

Interact with the companies whose products and services are advertised in Fast Company.READ»

CEOs Who Risk Big for Big Paydays

    Research shows that incentivizing CEOs with large pay and stock-option packages doesn't always have the intended effect of aligning their interests with shareholders. These six CEOs got fired because their risky moves ...READ»

• Why Incentives Are Effective, Irresistable, and Almost Certain to Backfire
• Incentive Clauses Gone Bad

At Your Service

Lessons From the Customers First Awards Finalists.READ»

The $8.59 Selfless-Service Lab

The pink-stucco and red-tile building, once home to a Red Lobster, blends easily into the urban sprawl of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A truck dealership is on one side, a nail salon across the street. But there's something different going on here at California Fresh Buffet.READ»

The Net/Net

A go-to guide of the products and services featured in this month's issue.READ»

Playing Rookie

Graduating college seniors across the nation share their criteria, ambitions, and priorities for a first job.READ»

The Net/Net

A go-to guide of the products and services featured in this month's issue.READ»

The Net/Net

A go-to guide of the products and services featured in this month's issue.READ»

Index to Advertisers

A go-to guide of the products and services featured in this month's issueREAD»

Putting Customers First

You'd think more companies would have gotten it by now. Unfortunately, organizations that put customers at the center of what they do are rare -- so rare that we're celebrating them. Meet the best customer-focused outfits, and learn from them.READ»

Careers: Personal Branding Steps

How do you create a brand for yourself and your business online if you’re in a non-techy field like real estate? Just ask Richard Nacht, CEO of Blogging Systems Group who in a matter of months after founding his company in 2005, ...READ»

The End of the Financial World as We Know It

By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN AMERICANS enter the New Year in a strange new role: financial lunatics. We’ve been viewed by the wider world with mistrust and suspicion on other matters, but on the subject of money even our ...READ»

Advertisers Target Captive Audiences

If screens seem to be popping up everywhere, that's because they are. In a DVR world, advertisers are reaching outside the home for today's most desirable audience: a captive one. Anywhere people might be waiting equals an opportunity to air short-form content and advertising. Tune in to the forefront of "advertainment." READ»

• Why You'll Be Watching More and More TV On Your Computer

Hidden Asset

Thomas Davenport has helped midwife some of the biggest trends to have shaped business over the past 25 years--among them, reengineering and knowledge management. Now he's asking: Where do ideas come from? And how do they get traction? Here's his eight-point plan for winning with ideas.READ»