Losing weight is a goal on many office workers' minds, but could trimming down actually make you more productive? That's a surprising finding from a recent experiment that increased workers' activity levels to help them fight their sedentary spread. by CC Holland
CurdBee is a free online service that lets you create and manage invoices and accept payments via online or offline methods. You can customize your invoices to include your company logo and color scheme, bill clients in your choice of currency (Euros, Shekels, etc.), and get paid...
The Find: The economic news may be moving from bad to dreadful, but at least some folks don't have to worry; one recruitment company has identified the top five recession-proof jobs. The Source: A study from Washington, DC based recruitment company, Jobfox. The Takeaway:...
Although every company needs to create new growth products and services to prosper, not all firms are on sound enough footing to boldly go where no company has gone before. Judge the situation at your own company by answering these three questions, advises innovation expert Scott Anthony...
If you run a small business and need a basic accounting package to go with it, here's an open-source (read: free) solution: GnuCash, a money-management application that includes small-business accounting features. GnuCash provides a checkbook-style register, integrated graphing and reporting, support for multiple currencies, and Quicken QIF...
IBM has been around for nearly a century but they’re nimble, moving with the times. CEO Palmisano has new plans to create a beautiful, globalized, multinational world and since two-thirds of their revenue now comes from outside the US, he just might do it.
"Management must raise prices, raise them a lot, and raise them frequently." Business writer George Stalk writes this eye-catching sentence in a recent blog on Harvard Business. He believes the 12-month run-up we've seen in commodity prices (ethanol +47 percent, wheat +40 percent) will continue to rise in the...
Executives are getting washed over with media coverage about the new financial regulatory blueprint spearheaded by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Cries may be loud about the need for new oversight but one Paulson message stands clear: U.S. business must remain competitive in an increasingly global economy. Executives...
Not looking forward to the Ides of April? A new startup called Sexat ("Taxes" backwards, get it?) has worked out a deal to let you SMS your 1099s and W2s directly to the IRS—no H&R Block schmoe needed. All you have to do is follow the simple guidelines on the...
Hot on the heels of human-resources manager Zoho People comes Zoho Invoice, an invoice-management application that lives on the Web. You can see it in action via the Zoho Show slideshow up above. (How's that for using one of your products to market one of your other products?) ...
The middle market is that great area where customers on the low end of the income scale aspire to shop, and where high-end spenders fear to fall. Think Sears, T.J. Maxx, and Applebee's as prototype mid-market players. Harvard Business School marketing professor John Quelch thinks the middle...
A quick note today on the arrival of The Oxford Handbook of Business History, an intriguing and opinionated survey of business management theory and research weighted mostly to the post-1950 era. The collection of essays around major business themes (approaches and debates; forms of business organization; functions...
Two ultra-low fare carriers could undercut Southwest's dominance in the Chicago area as cheaper Gary, Indiana threatens both O'Hare and Midway. There has long been talk of a third airport in Chicago, one of the world's busiest flight hubs. For years, Chicago's mayor has tried to build a massive new complex...
Tonight, we had our first quiz in Financial Accounting. Sounds easy enough, doesn't it? I'm pretty sure I bombed it -- embarrassingly so. I could blame it on the fact that I've never had accounting (never mind the fact that many people who know...
Harvard's Niall Ferguson is a well known and controversial historian who often looks into the financial past to plot parallels with contemporary times. Lately Ferguson has warned of a coming decline in the West and particularly in the US -- see his 2006 book The War of the World:...
It's simple. A new star-up known as NotchUp will offer prospective hirees a minimum cash payment of $500 from the employer seeking to hire you. All you have to do is submit your resume and wait for the interview dollars to roll in -- apparently with the best of intentions...
It may not be right, but we often overlook unethical behavior in others. In a recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Max Bazerman and colleagues explain the psychological reasons why this is so, and what companies can do about it. The paper, See No Evil: When...
CEOs of small and medium-sized companies should stand up and cheer Christopher Cox, chairman of the SEC. Cox wants to delay, for another year, the deadline for companies with market capitalizations of less than $75 million to comply with Section 404 of Sarbox, which was enacted...
Bravo to the board of Coca-Cola and Chairman and CEO Neville Isdell: This is how to handle CEO succession. Isdell, who is 64, announced he would step down as CEO and turn over the reins to Muhtar Kent, 55, who had been serving as president and chief...
Updating and upgrading a Web Site can take considerable time and resources. Your Web Site will have to grow organically as you introduce new products and services. You can also upgrade it to add new features that make it easier for your customers and visitors to use your site and...
