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- When Should You Take Down Your Boss?
- We’ve all wanted to kill our boss at some point, but beyond the ethical concerns and logistical complications of an office assassination, it may not be the best move for your career or your company. A recent article in The American highlights the findings of economic research...
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- IT Pros, Investors Take Top Salary Spots
- New analysis of the highest paying careers in the U.S. brings few surprises -- the tech sector has a firm grasp on the most bankable postions. PayScale.com compiled the list using career consultant Laurence Shatkin's analysis of the latest metrics from the Labor Department. The various high-rolling...
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- The Hidden Costs of Layoffs
- Think downsizing will solve your company's financial woes? These harsh realities may make you think twice. 1. Significant indirect costs often wipe out the direct savings of layoffs. While layoffs may seem like a good way to...
- Articles 2008-06-23
- Wachovia CEO's 'Early Retirement' Came Cheaply
- On the books, Wachovia considered the recent firing of CEO G. Kennedy Thompson an "early retirement" -- resulting in a $1,453,333 severance award and an accelerated vesting of $7,246,362 in restricted stock. But it actually could have been a far bigger payout for the departing CEO if Thompson hadn't terminated...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- FDIC Banking Profile Finds Bad News Everywhere
- Not that anyone expected otherwise, but the recently issued Quarterly Banking Profile from the FDIC is a banker's dozen of bummers (that's 11 rather than 12 -- interest taken out beforehand). The worst news for the first quarter of 2008 is that bank profits are down 46 percent to $19.3...
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- J.D. Power Banking Survey Shows Drop in Customer Satisfaction
- Although American Airlines has been aptly criticized for introducing a ludicrous baggage-check fee, at least the company was upfront about it. Banks have been levying dubiously disclosed "stealth fees" against customers for years for unintentional overdrafts and cash advances, and the latest survey of customer banking satisfaction from J.D. Power...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Consumer Confidence Drops, Merrill Lynch Suspends Trader
- A rundown of today's financial sector news: The Conference Board released its Consumer Confidence Index for May, which is down to 57.2 from April's 62.8. The downward trend corroborates the decline in consumer sentiment reported by the Reuters/University of Michigan consumer survey released earlier this month. This...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Facebook Connect Matches MySpace's Data Availability Initiative
- Facebook has countered News Corp.-owned MySpace's announcement of its data availability initiative yesterday with, well, an announcement today revealing the exact same thing for Facebook. This newest product, pushing both social networks toward an increasingly homogeneous end, allows users to carry public profile info, photos, and friends...
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Grand Theft Auto IV Debuts, Movie Industry Will Survive
- The fervently anticipated newest installment in Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto series hit stores Tuesday, which may explain why a large portion of your younger employees called in sick. First week sales of Grand Theft Auto IV, developed by Take-Two Interactive's Rockstar North studio, have been predicted at $400 million,...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- CW Pulls "Gossip Girl" From Web, and Ratings Suffer
- The season premiere of Gossip Girl -- the incredibly popular CW program that the current cover of New York Magazine calls the "Greatest. Show. Ever." -- debuted this week to slightly lower numbers than its previous season, with 2.44 million viewers as opposed to 2.5 million. It's significant because of...
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- LinkedIn Snags Biggest Social Network Growth
- Business professionals may have finally realized that social networking isn't just for the young and angsty. The latest metrics on social network growth reveal some impressive figures for business-oriented networking site LinkedIn, which more than quadrupled its number of unique users since last March. by Carlos Bergfeld
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Netflix to Charge More for Blu-ray Content
- Online movie distributor Netflix plans to start charging subscribers who rent Blu-ray movie titles a monthly premium. Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy gave the news Monday during the company's quarterly earnings call: "As you are aware, purchasing Blu-ray DVDs costs more both at retail and wholesale than standard definition DVDs,...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Facebook Chat: Reports of AIM's Death Greatly Exaggerated
- When social networking site Facebook's instant messaging service launched for select users last week, talk of Facebook Chat wholly devouring the IM industry soon followed. The New York Post ran a piece heralding the death of legacy IM client AOL Instant Messenger, which quoted Pali Capital analyst Richard Greenfield: ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Report: Networks Cling to Easy Money as Net TV Grows
- There's a reason why traditional broadcast and cable networks have been slow to embrace online distribution of their programming: programming fees and ad revenues are still easy money, far easier in the short term than figuring out a workable model for the Web. Toronto-based media analysis firm Convergence Consulting released...
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Target CEO Pay: One Comp Formula That Works
- Executive pay has become such an easy target these days -- not just for business journalists but all three presidential candidates -- that it's easy to lose sight of what really goes into the final compensation figure that shows up in all the headlines. Case in point was last week's...
- Blog posts 2008-04-12
- Recession-Friendly Employee Perks
- Worried that you can't afford to give raises and bonuses this year? Here are three ways you can reward employees without breaking the bank. ...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- Roundup: Trouble Looms for Lehman Brothers
- A rundown of recent financial sector news: Lehman Brothers needs capital, and some are saying it could be the next Bear Stearns; others think it's the next Enron. Bear Stearns Merchant Banking goes independent. Or was it always? Rising credit card delinquencies and debt point...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
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- Of Trust and Trustiness
- Two of our Insight bloggers, BNET1's Jon Haeber and Sales Machine's Geoffrey James have recently written about trust, each from a different angle. In "Three Reasons Why Trust Matters Online," Haeber noted that people are more and more skeptical online than they’ve ever been, that search engines...
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Great Intrapreneurs in Business History
- These five products have one thing in common: Each started out as an idea hatched by a mid-level employee — and ended up changing a company or revolutionizing an industry. Post-it Notes Intrapreneurs: Spencer Silver and Art Fry...
- Articles 2008-04-10
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