Good Jeans & Fortune: Local Teens To Pitch Business Ideas In National …CBS LocalBALTIMORE (WJZ-)—A high school business class leads to a chance to make some big bucks for two Baltimore teens. Judges selected the teens to attend a national compe…
Candidates propose economic policiesBoston GlobeOver the course of the campaign, they've debated a number of business-related issues, from the future of the Boston Redevelopment Authority (most want reforms) to casino gambling (most grudgingly favo…
Cathie Anderson: Nonprofit now funds business dreams for English speakers, tooSacramento BeeThe nonprofit microlender known as Opening Doors Inc. worked hard over 10 years to establish itself as an agency that gives refugees and immigrants the funding …
Pictures From the Week in BusinessNew York TimesPictures From the Week in Business. « Previous. 1 of 9. Next ». The financial district in Shanghai. China, which has been gradually opening up its financial system, is about to let foreign hedge funds s…
Business Life After DeathTIMEWhat would happen to your business if you or another key executive were to die unexpectedly? A successful entrepreneur shares what he learned from the death of his long-time friend and business partner. Death is an unsettli…
Obamacare small-business exchanges limited to 2 providersMilwaukee Journal SentinelMadison — The new federal insurance marketplace for small businesses will have only one or two insurers in much of Wisconsin, including Milwaukee and Madison, though i…
4 Questions That Will Change Your Business ForeverForbesHow long does it take to really improve a business? Much less time than you think. I have seen hundreds of businesses changed in minutes. Just by asking a few carefully selected questions. The rig…
euronewsMicrosoft's Business In Three ChartsTechCrunchMicrosoft, like other public companies, doesn't like to disclose more about its business than it has to, but in the middle of a reorganization and a very public CEO search, a little openness…
The Internet Sales Tax Is Back—Without Small Business ExemptionsBusinessweekWhen the Senate passed the Marketplace Fairness Act in May, a major point of contention was language exempting some small businesses from collecting sales tax on out-of-state…
What 'South Park' Can Teach You About Business — Hint: Stealing Underpants …ForbesMy favorite South Park episode is called “Gnomes.”[i] Here's the gist of the story, as I remember it. Tweek's underpants are being stolen. He has o…
BloombergAgilent to Spin Off Electronic-Measurement Business Into New CompanyWall Street JournalDiversified testing-equipment company Agilent Technologies Inc. plans to break up into two publicly traded firms by spinning off its electronic-measurement …
16 Critical Mistakes Business Owners MakeForbesRunning a business is tough. And too often, business owners get so involved in day-to-day activities that they forget about critical, longer-term tasks they must do. Below are 16 such tasks and reminders. …
Washington PostBusiness Roundtable's issues warning on debt limit but says it won't pick sidesWashington PostOn Wednesday morning, one of the most influential business groups in Washington warned that a drawn-out confrontation over the nation&#…
2008 financial crisis holds lessons for business schoolsLos Angeles TimesRequired courses at the university's Marshall School of Business now include accounting ethics. Another new course on accounting rules aims to help future auditors keep land m…
The AtlanticFirst Step to Fixing Gender Bias in Business School: Admit the ProblemThe AtlanticThe institution that brought us the business-school case study, Harvard Business School, was itself the subject of a front-page case study in The New York Tim…
New York TimesObama Highlights Fiscal Risks in Addressing Business GroupNew York TimesWASHINGTON — President Obama tried to raise the pressure on Republicans in Congress on Wednesday, telling a national business group that threats of a fiscal default…
Focus on What Works, Forget the Rest, And Watch Your Business GrowForbesMost people in business know about the 80-20 rule, or Pareto's Principle. You know, the one that says that 80 percent of your revenue comes from 20 percent of your clients, or …
Business Owner Gets $216464 AT&T Bill – for Phone That Never WorkedDailyFinancedishekie/reddit A business owner was already a little miffed at AT&T when the phone line it installed didn't work. So imagine how upset he was when the company s…
Obama to ask business leaders to push Congress to raise debt limitReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama appealed to business leaders on Wednesday to urge Congress to approve an increase in the U.S. debt limit without any conditions attac…
Unfinished Business From the Financial CrisisNew York Times (blog)Amid a flurry of five-year retrospectives came a news item reflecting unfinished business from the financial crisis: the breakdown of settlement talks between the Securities and Exchange…
Salaries for College Business Grads SurgeBusinessweekCollege business majors have a reason to smile. With the improving economy increasing demand for college graduates, new research shows that average salaries for business majors increased 7.9 percent …
Study: Majority of Wealthy Business Owners Self-MadeFox BusinessA new survey from U.S. Trust finds the majority of high net-worth business owners are entrepreneurial individuals who started their own business and created most of their own wealth. In a …
California Asian Business Summit this weekU-T San DiegoThe second annual conference, held Thursday and Friday at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter hotel, will address a range of issues the Asian business community faces in California, while highlighting the c…
The 'Coase Theorem' and Big BusinessNew York Times (blog)Big businesses, especially those with large shares of the markets in which they sell, are sometimes thought to harm the economy because they sell to customers with little fear of competit…
New Yorker (blog)Why Women Should Skip Business SchoolNew Yorker (blog)Harvard Business School has been trying to improve the environment for female students, as Jodi Kantor wrote in the Times earlier this month. Women in the school historically have l…
New York TimesA Much-Loved Family Business Meets Disaster Again on the ShoreNew York TimesFierce winds whipped the flames down the wooden Boardwalk in Seaside Heights, N.J., as firefighters struggled to control the blaze. When it was all over, more tha…
Washington PostBig-Business Leaders Talk Tax Code at Mont. SummitABC NewsU.S. Sen. Max Baucus said Monday that his effort to revamp the tax code helped attract some of the business world's biggest names to Montana for a jobs conference that touched…
Do Nice People Succeed In Business? It DependsForbesThe business world is often depicted as a gladiatorial contest where only the selfish survive. If that's what you think, then Wharton professor Adam Grant's Give and Take is the next book for …
The Top Negotiation Trap That Can Cost Your BusinessForbes“I believe that many people truly miss identifying what the other party is trying to accomplish. One of the best examples is the orange exercise. Call me and I can explain.” That spark of wi…
The Secret to a Billion-Dollar BusinessHuffington PostOne of my favorite lines from the Dirty Harry films is not the "make my day" classic; it is the peeved response given by inspector Harry Callahan, played by Clint Eastwood, upon being info…
Make Your Dream Business a RealityFox BusinessThe Fourth of July is long behind us, but millions of Americans still dream about their own “independence day”—the day they shake off the shackles of employment and start their dream business. A recen…
Challenging Entrepreneurs to Build the Defining Business of TomorrowHuffington PostI'm delighted to announce that HuffPost is joining forces with the e-commerce site Shopify as part of their Build-A-Business competition. Shopify itself is part of o…
PBS NewsHourThree traits to ace the GMAT and run an unethical businessPBS NewsHourDo you have what it takes to score well on the GMAT? New research suggests high scores are associated with less of a tendency for ethical and entrepreneurial business act…
Mercer County business owners consider impact of health care reformThe Times of Trenton – NJ.comBusiness owners across the country sighed in relief when the Obama administration delayed for a year a plan to fine large employers who do not provide healt…
One US-China Business Gap With The Potential For ImprovementForbesI was invited by the Xiaoxiang Chenbao newspaper to speak on Saturday to about 100 small-business executives in Changsha, the capital of southern China's Hunan Province, and learned …
7Online.comChristie vows support for fire-ravaged Jersey Shore businessesNBCNews.com (blog)"Getting financial assistance to fire-damaged businesses is a critical step to Seaside's economic recovery, and we're acting quickly to make that ha…
Are You Prepared? Record Number Of Cyber Attacks Target Small BusinessForbesIf you think your business is too small to be an attractive target for cyber criminals or you don't have anything worth stealing, think again: The 2012 Data Breach Investig…
Business briefs for Sept. 15The Advocate1st Team Insurance Agency in Baton Rouge announced an affiliation with Aon Cornerstone, a business unit of Aon plc that focuses on strategic alliances with minority business enterprises. 1st Team Insurance Agency…
GWU business school dean is praised, then firedWashington Post (blog)In late August, the university fired Guthrie from his two administrative positions. Provost Steven Lerman said last week that there were disagreements over how to control the business…
Fairview parking-lot rage involving tow truck driver, business owner caught on …OregonLive.comBut if you're looking for more proof, there's a video of a profanity-laced confrontation between a tow truck driver and Fairview business owner boun…
'We could have lost all this': Christie meets with Jersey Shore business ownersNBCNews.com (blog)Chris Christie on Saturday met with Jersey Shore business owners who face another round of rebuilding after a boardwalk fire struck the towns of Se…
After Gaining Right To Free Speech, Corporations Could Get Right To Religious …Business InsiderThe U.S. Supreme Court has already affirmed that corporations have free speech rights, but a new challenge to Obamacare could also declare that non-human b…
Bizarre Tips That Could Boost Your Business From Amex's Panel Of Small …ForbesAmid the hubbub of Fashion Week, up-and-coming designers served up some peculiar advice during the panel discussion, “The Big Business of Small Merchant Fashion Brand…
Colorado floods: Business likely to feel brunt of after-effectsDenver PostChances are the burdens of a soured economy and the yearly drumbeat of drought mean many businesses never planned for the impact of this week's raging floodwaters. Small busi…
Berkshire, AIG Join Battle Over Lucrative BusinessWall Street JournalThe "war," as one person familiar with the matter called it, broke out in April when Berkshire hired four senior AIG executives to start a new commercial-insurance unit that…
Two More Things About The New iPhone Software That Business Will LoveBusiness InsiderApple's new iPhone software, iOS 7, has added a bunch of new features to make an important customer happy: the enterprise. We previously named nine new features ge…