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Five Supreme Court Cases to Watch: The legal landscape of business could change significantly. This term, the country?s highest court could redraw the map with rulings on everything from innovation to the prosecution of white-collar criminals. The business-related cases now before the Supreme Court are wide-ranging. Those watching closely include top executives, entrepreneurs, politicians, inventors, and...; Tags: Business, U.S. Supreme Court, Sarbanes-Oxley, Entrepreneurship, Regulatory Compliance, Litigation, Payroll Solutions, Benefits, Regulations, Financial Services, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Business Operations, Supreme Court, BNET Feature Package, Campaign Finance Reform, McCain-Feingold Act of 2002, Conrad Black, Bernard Madoff, Patents, Innovation, Pensions, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Corporate Fraud, Fraud; Articles 2009-12-10
How Clairol Colored P&G Beautiful: What if Clairol had turned out to be a dud? Well, let?s just say it was a much bigger deal than its $4.95 billion price tag. A reeling stock price, slumping morale, falling profits, creeping irrelevance. That was Procter & Gamble PG when A.G. Lafley became CEO in June 2000....; Tags: Stock, Procter & Gamble Co., Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Proctor & Gamble Co., Clairol, AG Lafley, Cait Murphy, BNET feature package; Articles 2009-11-24
The Project Manager's Quick Guide to Getting Things Done: In every respect but title, your job is to manage projects ? usually with too little time and always with too few resources. Why not learn how to do it successfully from the world's best pros?We will now interrupt this grim and ugly recession to offer thanks for great project...; Tags: Project Manager, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Project Management, BNET Feature Package, General Motors, Chevy Volt, Nokia, Method, Facebook; Articles 2009-10-27
Lessons From the World's Best Project Managers: Project heads from GM, Nokia, Method, and Facebook pass on what they've learned from working on high-stakes projects. The perfect is the enemy of the deadline. Bill Wallace, engineering group manager for GM’s Volt battery. Photo by...; Tags: Nokia Corp., Battery, General Motors Corp., Engineering, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, General Motors, Chevy Volt, Nokia, Method, Facebook, Deadlines, Project Management, Lindsay Blakely, BNET Feature Package; Articles 2009-10-27
The Quick-and-Dirty Guide to Getting Things Done: How to launch and successfully complete complex projects in four chaos-free steps. Be a Control Freak at the Beginning A smart project manager applies the most time and effort at the start, to prepare for a great launch, and...; Tags: Project, Team, Project Manager, Team Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, It Operations, It service Management, BNET Crash Course, Organization, Deadlines, Nokia, General Motors, Recession, Downturn, Managing a Team, Kim Girard, BNET Feature Package; Articles 2009-10-27

How Three Project Managers Stayed on Track: Managing near-disasters is part of the job. Here?s how three determined team leaders saved projects that had gone off the rails. Colorado State Patrol The goal: Coordinate law enforcement services with the Denver Police Department, the...; Tags: Team, Project Manager, Buisson, Synovus, TSYS, Telephony, Team Management, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Management, Project Management, Colorado State Patrol, Democratic National Convention, London Heathrow Airport, Kim Girard, BNET Feature Package; Articles 2009-10-27
The First Step to Landing Your Dream Job? Leave the Country.: The job market is a disaster in the U.S., but some countries are still paying top dollar for American talent. Are you ready? The economic rebound might feel good if you?re in the Goldman Sachs bonus pool, but for everyone else? Not so much. In fact, if you?re a fresh-from-B-school...; Tags: Job, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jobless recovery, job market, recession, economic recovery, job opportunities, Brazil, Vietnam, South Korea, Asia jobs, India jobs, China jobs, BNET Feature Package, Tim Gray; Articles 2009-10-22
Vietnam: Opportunity Is Everywhere: For Westerners with little management experience can have their pick of good jobs in Vietnam. When Todd Brizendine lost his New York marketing job in November 2008, he immediately began shooting off resumes and calling on friends and former colleagues to try to land a...; Tags: Job, Vietnam, Recruitment & Selection, Professional Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Career, Vietnam economy, Vietnam jobs, TNS Global, Tim Gray, BNET Feature Package; Articles 2009-10-22
Brazil: Hot Beaches, Hot Parties, and a Hot Job Market: Latin America?s biggest economy has weathered the downturn well and is in need of talent. Plus, it?s gearing up for the 2016 Summer Olympics. You know you’ve dreamed this dream: tropical weather, a population known for throwing the world’s biggest parties, beautiful beaches,...; Tags: Brazil, Job, MBA, Beach, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Brazil economy, 2016 Summer Olympics, Haas Business School, Tim Gray, BNET Feature Package; Articles 2009-10-22
South Korea: Get Gold Card, Rake in Gold: Low unemployment and powerhouses like Samsung are making South Korea a land of opportunity for expats. The Land of the Morning Calm may sound like a relaxing place. It’s not. But if you’re ambitious and have management experience, particularly in a technology industry,...; Tags: Card, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., South Korea, E-business, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Transportation, Internet, Samsung, South Korea., Tim Gray, BNET Feature Package; Articles 2009-10-22
China: Jobs Abound! (But Do Your Homework): Chinese companies are aggressively going after U.S. managers willing to move there. Finding a job in China can be as easy as posting a resume on Monster.com or cruising the job boards on expat Web site eChinaCities.com. ...; Tags: China, Job, Raby, Recruitment & Selection, Sales Strategy, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, China economy, China jobs, Tim Gray, BNET Feature Package; Articles 2009-10-22
India: Riding the Backwards Brain Drain: India?s booming economy, fueled by tech and telecom, is luring western workers. In India, a reverse migration of sorts is taking place. Engineers and scientists from the West are now heading to the subcontinent to work in that land’s expanding job market. Fueling...; Tags: India, Prager Inc., New Delhi, Telephony, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management, India economy, India technology, India telecom, India jobs, Tim Gray, BNET Feature Package; Articles 2009-10-22
Are You Expat Material?: Here are five things to consider before hunting for work overseas. Here are five things to consider before hunting for work overseas. Most happy expats possess some similar traits: They’re adventurous, embrace unknown situations, have high self-esteem, and are ...; Tags: Job, Employer, Chances, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Expats, Working overseas, BNET Feature Package, Tim Gray; Articles 2009-10-22
How Korn Ferry Got Married: When most other CEOs in the executive search fields were cutting back, Korn/Ferry?s Gary Burnison went shopping. The key: trusting his gut as much as the financials.Headhunting is a cyclical industry, which is another way of saying that Korn/Ferry has had a very rough 18 months: Its clients were doing...; Tags: Acquisition, CEO, Mergers & Acquisitions, Balance Sheets, Corporate Law, Recruitment & Selection, Investment, Finance, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Whitehead Mann, Executive Search, Korn/Ferry, Headhunting, The Decisive Moment, BNET Feature Package, Downturn, Recession, Cait Murphy; Articles 2009-10-20
Bill Hawkins' Tough Call: Two months after taking over as CEO of Medtronic, Hawkins learned that one of his company's key products might be endangering lives. Here's how he handled it.Bill Hawkins reached the top of his field in August 2007, when he became the CEO ...; Tags: Medtronic Inc., Professional Development, Sales Strategy, Career, Sales, Medtronic, Bill Hawkins, Decisive Moment, BNET Feature Package; Articles 2009-10-05
The Price Is Right â�� If You Can Spend Again: How four companies have scored big deals by not letting a good crisis go to waste.With business spending having fallen off a cliff and newly thrifty consumers reluctant to open their wallets, now might not seem like the time to embark on an 800-person hiring spree or a huge retail-store...; Tags: Hyundai, Advertisement, ITT Corp., Real Estate, Business Operations, BNET Feature Package, Recession, Downturn, Deals, M&As, Mergers and Acquisitions, Advertising; Articles 2009-09-28
How to Make Your Team Pull Harder: Pay for performance is all the rage. Just be careful what you wish for.Everyone, it seems, wants to change the way America's workers are paid. Big companies, newly frugal from the brutal recession, want to ensure they're getting the most out of the workers they still have on their payrolls....; Tags: Team, Pay-for-performance, Worker, Benefits, Human Resources, BNET Feature Package, Pay for Performance, Motivating a Team, Hewlett-Packard, American Airlines, New England Patriots, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Compensation, Superstars; Articles 2009-09-21
The Rise of the Virtual MBA: As online education grows in popularity — and brand-name B-schools rush to meet the demand — the reputation of online MBA programs is changing for the better. Distance learning has come a long way since the first "Get your diploma by mail"...; Tags: MBA, Degree, Online MBA, Online Degree, AACSB, MBA Programs, BNET Feature Package; Articles 2009-09-14
Contractors to the Rescue: Yes, it's a leap of faith. But when head count is impossible to get, you sometimes have to let your fate fall into the hands of a part-time team. Here's how to make sure they don't drop the net.In an economy full of problems, let's assume you have a high-class...; Tags: Team, Contractor, Team Management, Management, BNET Feature Package, Part-Time Workers, Independent Contractors, Recession Jobs, Marie C. Baca; Articles 2009-08-17
The Science Behind Apple's Magic: A steady stream of revolutionary products. Swarms of devoted fans. Advertising that laughs at the competition. How does Apple do it? We'll show you.Apple has plenty of mystique, but what looks like magic is something a lot more calculated. What works for Apple can be distilled into principles of sound...; Tags: Apple Inc., Team Management, Management, BNET Feature Package, Apple, Steve Jobs, Innovation; Articles 2009-08-10