UCLA law professor and one-man-media-empire-in-the-making Stephen Bainbridge has responded to my response to his critique of my very first post on this blog, “Who needs a board of directors, anyway?” (Dizzy yet?)
Bainbridge’s essay is highly erudite, with footnotes and everything. Reading it will, to quote an ill-fated Fortune ad campaign …
You’re a manager at a large firm. Every so often you sit through a day of diversity training, designed to teach you how to better manage, hire and promote minorities and women. The goal is worthy, you figure, and if your company spends so much money on these sessions then they must work.
Odd that year after year you look around at the …
What does half a mil buy these days? A three-bedroom house in New Jersey, college tuition for a couple of kids in a couple of decades, peace of mind in the 401(k). All things a working woman could use.
And yet, working women are routinely tossing $560,000 away. We’re doing so by not uttering one all-important sentence during one …
Earlier I fretted about missing meetings while I am temporarily homebound. But here I am, watching a PowerPoint presentation on my computer via Microsoft Office Live Meeting. It’s an hour-long teleconference being given by the Brookings Institution to teach reporters how to mine Census Bureau numbers for stories.
This is great! As I …
An interesting study in the Journal of Law and Economics found that companies that conduct background checks result in higher hiring rates for African-American men. Here, the abstract:
In this paper, we analyze the effect of employer-initiated criminal background checks on the likelihood that employers hire African Americans. We find
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Michael Kinsley has a new piece in Slate this week purportedly offering “proof that the stock market is irrational.” As the someday-to-be-author of a book tentatively titled The Myth of the Rational Investor (due out early next year, if I get cracking on the rewrite), I ought to agree with him. But I just can’t bring myself to. Maybe …
The New York Times has run two stories on poor billionaires–rich dudes who are sad because other dudes make more than they do.
In a story this morning, Silicon Valley tycoons wax envious about the two YouTube founders’ giant Google payday. One 36-year-old, who scored enough as an exec for PayPal to “retire to a comfortable …
…according to a poll this week by Monster, almost half–44%–would give the Big Kahuna an approval rating of 25% or lower. Hmm. Wonder if survey results were skewed by folks who list their work address as 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue…
As a journalist, I know from retarded press releases. As a workplace correspondent, though, I’m usually spared the worst of the worst: most of the pitches I get involve employment studies and management books and companies that …
So you’re an exec who shoots to stardom in a time of crisis and are subsequently given the top job and a mandate to remake your organization. You do so–and that’s when the trouble starts. TIME senior writer Christine Gorman writes this week about Julie Gerberding, director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Read it, even …
Having recently found myself hospitalized for a stress-related illness, I’ve been thinking a lot about stress: what it is, what causes it, and how to get rid of it.
It’s stressing me out.
Misery loves company, so I was …
I meant to start this blog on another note.
I have a mountain of notes on topics I wanted to kick off with. Like how military vets returning from Iraq are having trouble finding jobs. Or an interesting study from Harvard about why diversity efforts at big companies don’t necessarily work. Or about mentorships that do. Or about how I …
