For all the recent concern over teen bullying, large numbers of adults also deal with peer-to-peer intimidation, especially at work: Approximately one in four U.S. workers say they’ve been bullied on the job, according to the …
They call it “showrooming,” and to hear the nation’s retailers and other experts fret about consumers using smartphones to buy online while shopping in stores, it’s the worst thing to happen to brick-and-mortar sales since Jeff …
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely talks about why everyone’s willing to cheat a little, why you’ll steal a staple from work but not petty cash and whether punishments for cheating actually work
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is scheduled to testify before a Senate committee later this week, the latest in a series of comeuppances in the wake of his firm’s massive trading losses earlier this year. The spectacle will no …
In her new book, Sleeping with Your Smartphone, Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow details her years-long research project with the Boston Consulting Group, an attempt to improve the work-life balance at the …
The resignation of JPMorgan Chase exec Ina Drew in the wake of the banking giant’s recent $2 billion trading loss is troubling news for many reasons, but one of the most important rarely gets mentioned: Trading operations need …
In their new show, United Stats of America (which debuts Tuesday at 10 p.m. E.T. on the History Channel), twin comedians Jason and Randy Sklar drill deep into the numbers that make America great — or at least, greatly filled …
Travel agents were once the poster children for that Old Economy horror movie Things The Internet Will Destroy. From a high of 34,000 in the mid-1990s, the ranks of agencies has been sliced by more than half, to roughly 15,000 …
How about this for a new investing strategy: Avoid the stock of companies that make big political contributions. The more they give, it seems, the worse their share prices perform. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which …
If you want to know which direction the stock price of a company rolling out a new product is headed, there’s no need to wait for sales figures. Just check out user-generated product reviews on the web. They’re as good an early …
Along with overburdened retirement plans and overcrowded early-bird buffet bars comes yet one more worry as the flood of Baby Boomer retirements begins: The overwhelming majority of America businesses are not prepared to deal …
