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- Going Public Doesn't Pay for Pyramid Brewing
- Yesterday's announcement that Burlington, Vermont's Magic Hat Brewing Company plans to acquire Seattle's Pyramid Breweries, Inc. may help the West Coast brewer turn a profit for the first time since 2002. Saddled by almost $1 million in annual costs associated with being public, Pyramid reported a $1.8 million loss in...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Unleash Your Inner Intrapreneur
- Starting a new venture within an established company can satisfy the entrepreneurial itch — without the risks of going solo. Learn how “intrapreneurship” can give your career, and your company, a boost. Ever dream of leaving your middle-management job and striking out on your own? For a lot of people,...
- Articles 2008-04-10
- ChangeThis: New Ideas on Marketing and Creativity
- The latest issue of ChangeThis, the online journal that "The No Asshole Rule" author Bob Sutton says looks "more interesting than the typical Harvard Business Review," trains its wide lens on the subject of viral marketing, with a piece by David Meerman Scott. "The New Rules of...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Richard Florida: Who's Your City
- Considering your next big career move? In exclusive excerpts from his new book, “Who’s Your City?,” Richard Florida explains why that decision should be all about location, location, location — and profiles the top new regions for great jobs and companies.Three crucial economic ingredients – talent, innovation, and creativity –...
- Articles 2008-03-25
- Office Makeovers That Boost the Bottom Line
- Badly configured offices aren’t just killjoys — they kill profits, too. Here’s how smart companies use space to their advantage.Researchers have said for years that the physical workspace of a business factors directly into productivity, job satisfaction, and, yes — profitability. Yet relatively few companies practice what everyone...
- Articles 2008-03-03
- P&G’s Secret Weapon: “OR Inside”
- Operations research isn’t just geek science at P&G. It’s how the $76 billion giant makes every crucial decision, from marketing to inventory management. For decades, Procter & Gamble mostly trusted its executives and brand managers’ gut instincts to make critical decisions — when to launch a new product, say, or...
- Articles 2008-02-14
- Build a Dream Team
- Bringing the right minds together for a crucial task can often be as daunting as the job itself. Here’s how to draft and manage your team towards success.Have a new product to get to prototype in six months? Need to crash through a systems rebuild? Whether it’s R&D, accounting, or...
- Articles 2008-01-25
- Pick, Pour, and Taste Wine Like a Pro
- Need to impress a wine-snob boss? A BNET Crash Course for the resourceful amateur.Do you hide when the waiter approaches with the 20-page, leather-bound wine menu? Have trouble telling a viognier from a chardonnay, a sangiovese from a syrah? Enjoying a bottle of wine with friends and family is nothing...
- Articles 2007-12-19
- Be a Master M&A Negotiator
- Got a big merger on the table? Here’s the strategy and savvy you’ll need to close the deal.On paper, it all seems so perfect: You’ve targeted the ideal company to acquire, the PowerPoint slides are screaming “upside,” you’ve done your financial and legal research, and you’ve given the other company...
- Articles 2007-12-13
- BNET’s CEO Report Card
- Forget the public view of CEOs. BNET’s exclusive new survey of top managers and execs pinpoints how business insiders today assess what the top boss is doing right and wrong.You know the public rap on CEOs: If they’re not grossly overpaid, they’re incompetent or unethical or some combination of all...
- Articles 2007-10-30
- What’s That MBA Really Worth?
- Less and less, say increasingly vocal critics. Here’s what aspiring students and hiring managers need to know about where and why the MBA is falling short.For recruiters and executives, MBAs have long been considered the holy grail of the candidate pool. And for employees, the degree is that traditional ticket...
- Articles 2007-10-16
- Debunking the IT Shortage Myth
- While Microsoft, Google, and Oracle are lobbying Congress to increase the number of H-1B temporary worker visas so they can meet what they describe as a shortage of skilled technology workers, many skilled technology workers who are already in the U.S. are reporting having trouble finding jobs. InformationWeek recently explored...
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- US Automakers Shift Gears
- After a decade of acquisitions of and mergers with European luxury brands (see DaimlerChrysler, Ford and Volvo, GM and Saab), American automakers are refocusing their energies on their core brands and the domestic market. In the latest news, Ford has decided to entertain offers for its...
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- What Men Can Learn From Women in the Workplace
- Women have learned to think and speak in a more linear way in order to compete effectively in the business world, Andrea Learned writes in a recent Huffington Post blog entry, but maybe it's time for men to start adopting some "female" traits, such as multitasking, listening skills, emotional emphathy,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Break Your BlackBerry Addiction
- Compulsively checking (and responding to) email can not only be disruptive to your social and professional life, it can also add stress. The Wall Street Journal recently cited an MIT study that found that people who check their email on a mobile device had increased feelings of control, but those...
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Our Democratic Right to Vacation
- Although you need to consider the source of budget-travel guru Arthur Frommer's blog post, boldly titled An increase in the amount of vacation time is unfinished business of our democracy," he does raise some interesting arguments from a quality-of-life perspective. But what about the business perspective? The...
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- Retailers Can Improve Relationships with Customers
- A recent study of 1,200 customers revealed some interesting insights into how customers view their relationships with major retailers. Some of the results were fairly obvious: 90 percent of customers surveyed place a high priority on customer service 89 percent value retailers that are easy to...
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- Parents Make Better Managers
- In your darker moments as a manager, you might feel like your employees are like children. "The ParentPreneur Edge: What Parenting Teaches About Building a Successful Business" takes the "businessperson as parent" conceit a step further. Author Julie Lenzer Kirk identifies five qualities that can help you...
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- eBay Goes Head-to-Head with Craigslist
- Last Friday, eBay launched the U.S. version of their Kijiji.com online classified site, which will directly compete with Craigslist.org. On the surface, that's not such a surprise. Online classifieds seems a natural extension of eBay's core online auction business and e-commerce brand. Some have already heaped praise on Kijiji's interface,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- 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
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