Resources
BNET Resources
- sort by:
- Relevance
- Date
- Popularity
- Understanding Procrastination
- This week, Slate is running a series of articles about that omnipresent elephant in the cubicle: procrastination. While most of the articles aren't exactly How-Not-To Guides, I did learn a little bit from skimming through a few of them. Emily Yoffe's piece taught me that procrastination is a learned trait,...
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Deals Without Delusions
- The Idea in Brief Half of all acquiring companies pay more for target firms than they're worth. Often it's because of executives' mental biases: Their interest in a deal keeps them from being objective about its value....
- Articles 2008-04-01
- How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career
- The Idea in Brief Are you one of the growing number of people struggling to make mid-career changes? Searching for ten easy steps to professional reinvention? Or awaiting flashes of insight--while opportunities pass you by? Would...
- Articles 2008-02-13
- Stumped? Research Suggests an Unlikely Way to Improve Your Thinking
- What do you do when faced with a problem you can't solve? Wait around for inspiration? Pace? Go to lunch? While we may think what we do with our bodies has little effect on how well our brains work (assuming we're adequately nourished and rested), this week the Boston Globe...
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- And… We're Back
- That's right. We're back to work, back to school, back to the grind. There's nothing like that first full week of the year, is there? The calendar says Tuesday, but I'd swear it was Thursday -- sure proof that school has started up again. I've read about...
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Is an "Open" Strategy Right For You?
- Some critics called Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader overpriced and poorly designed, while others hailed it "the book of the future." There may be truth on both sides of the debate, but nonetheless, consumers have spoken, and their response has been highly favorable. Now there's just one thing standing in the way of...
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Price of Oil Drives Up the Cost of... Gum?
- You're not in the aviation or shipping business so you're not expecting the near record price of oil to have much of an impact on your business. That's a mistake, according to a number of respected news outlets today. Marketwatch.com is warning that everything from cosmetics...
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- Physician Heal Thyself -- Business Journalism Takes Some Tough Criticisim
- The collapse of the sub-prime lending market with all its attendant effects took a lot of people by surprise this summer. (But, as we've previously blogged, not everyone.) Should we have been so surprised? Perhaps those with a vested interest in the industry were blinded by their own need to...
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Designing the Perfect Office
- The New York Times moved into a brand-new office building this week, and already rival news sources are jumping at the opportunity to point out the weaknesses, including mice and poor office design. Putting aside the thought that this is sour-grapes reporting from journalists who might be...
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Sticks and Stones: Surviving the Office Bully
- If you can't escape the office bully, a recent Wall Street Journal article offers some ways to cope, courtesy of Robert Sutton, author of book-of-the-moment The No Asshole Rule. The article includes some practical, real-world advice, such as, "Don't blame yourself." Instead, Sutton recommends reminding yourself that you...
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- Are Businesses Serious About Ethics?
- Companies seem to be jumping over themselves to adopt business ethics and policies. But the way some companies implement them, one wonders if they're designed to actually affect change or just to improve P.R. In the current Business Week, Pallavi Gogoi looks at the plight of whistleblowers,...
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- The (White) Male-Dominated World of Finance?
- CFO Magazine’s June 2007 edition includes a story on workplace diversity that shows there’s been little growth of minorities in the financial world. The article shares the experience of Oscar Munoz, the CFO for CSX Corp, who was on vacation at a resort hotel and was asked by a white...
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- How to Set Up an Office of Strategy Management
- Here's a great article brief from Harvard Business Online on why businesses need an Office of Strategy Management or OSM. The article argues that most businesses fail to reach profitable growth because of the strategic disconnect that exists between different departments within the company. How can you solve this? The...
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Take BNET with You
- Starting this week, you can download BNET feature articles in PDF format. Save BNET Crash Courses, Briefings, Basics, and other articles to your computer desktop by clicking the "Download" button that appears on the story's tool bar: by Joseph De Avila
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- Using Game Theory to Brew A Bigger Cup of Tea
- There's a great profile (though a bit long-ish) on Barry Nalebuff, economist and chairman of organic beverage company Honest Tea, in this spring's Strategy+Business. The article discusses how Nalebuff used game theory, "a mathematical tool used to anticipate possible scenarios and develop appropriate strategies to deal with them," in his...
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Get Organized With My BNET
- So, what exactly is My BNET? Think of it as a combination briefcase, message center, and control panel for everything you do while using BNET. Best of all, you don’t have to pay to use these great features. They’re all benefits of your free BNET registration. You can use your...
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- How To Use the BNET Beta
- Some of the finest minds of our generation worked hard to make the new BNET intuitive and easy-to-navigate, but for those who were used to the old site -- or those who would rather let us do the driving -- this post will help you get reoriented. On the BNET...
- Blog posts 2007-01-28
- Outsourcing Article Marketing: The Easy Way To Make Money Writing Articles
- The process of outsourcing article marketing is surprisingly easy and inexpensive to do. The first step is to come up with a schedule and a list of topics for which you would like to produce articles. It is often useful to "Batch" a number of topics together into a single...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Innovating Organizations and HRM: A Conceptual Framework
- The articles in this special issue are related to two of the tracks, labeled "Organizational innovation and HRM" and "Innovating the HR Function". This first article should be read as an introduction to the five articles from the congress that follow, to position them in the field and to show...
- White papers 2004-08-05
- Forty Years of Involuntary Property Insurance Markets in the U.S
- The article traces the history and development of the FAIR and beach plans. It reports on operating philosophy as well as procedures and practices in place in the involuntary property markets today. It reports mixed success in effort to depopulate the plans. In addition, it provides some indication of the...
- White papers
- << Previous
- page 1 of 5
- Next >>
Content Types
Refining Tags
- Management (25 results)
- Human Resources (17 results)
- Finance (17 results)
- Marketing (15 results)
- Business Operations (14 results)
- Strategy (13 results)
- Sales (12 results)
- Workforce Management (9 results)
- Leadership (8 results)
- Internet (7 results)
- Benefits (6 results)
- Sales Strategy (6 results)
- Sales Force Management (6 results)
- Marketing Research (6 results)
- Productivity (6 results)
- Financial Accounting (5 results)
- Recruitment & Selection (5 results)
- Entrepreneurship (5 results)
- Financial Planning (5 results)
- Investment (4 results)
- Corporate Insurance (4 results)
- It Operations (4 results)
- Online Communications (4 results)
- Hardware (4 results)
- Microsoft Office (4 results)
- Litigation (4 results)
- Software (4 results)
- Sales Channel (4 results)
- Insurance (4 results)
- Financial Services (4 results)
- Manufacturing (3 results)
- Leader (3 results)
- Performance (3 results)
- Security (3 results)
- E-mail (3 results)
- Managed Hosting (3 results)
- Outsourcing (3 results)
- Outsourcing & Subcontracting (3 results)
- Advertising & Promotion (3 results)
- Joseph De Avila (3 results)
- Performance Management (3 results)
- Corporate Communications (3 results)
- Enterprise Software (3 results)
- Jessica Stillman (3 results)
- Harvard Knowledgebase (3 results)
- Nicole Solis (3 results)
- Channel Management (3 results)
