Etiquette—it’s not just for dinner parties or impressing your future in-laws. These tips can help avoid gaffes and build business success in the social media age.
How Nate Silver Won the Internet (and You Can Too)
Statistician Nate Silver is living proof of how the web has fundamentally changed business–and the world. You can learn from his story.
Be Happy Larry Summers Sits on the Board of Lending Club
For much of the summer, Washington’s policy elite have been focused on the question of who will become the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. One of the most powerful positions in the federal government, the role of Fed chair …
If It’s Tuesday, Best Buy Must Be Laying Workers Off
What’s the best day of the week for laying off employees? A certain well-known electronics retailer has apparently settled on Tuesday.
The New Way to Keep an Eye on the Market: Fidelity’s Google Glass App
The image of the Wall Street investor with dollar signs flashing in his eyes is about to become a lot more literal.
Want to Live to 120? Soon You Can — If You Can Afford It
Save early and often. You just might live to be 120.
Don’t Let Your Boss’s Favoritism Get You Down
Many managers have a pet employee who appears to get special treatment—interesting assignments, invitations to social events, or even perks. As the non-pet, you may want to scream in frustration. Instead, try this:
- Stop obsessing. There’s little point to moaning that your boss has a favorite and it’s not fair. That’s not
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Eight Steps to an Effective Welcome Email
Getting customers to sign up for your newsletter is only the first step. Follow these tips for killer welcome emails that will keep them interested and your newsletters out of the spam folder.
How to Talk to Kids About Money (Even if You Have None)
A Morgan Stanley adviser offers his thoughts for the rich — but there’s plenty here for normal folks
Foodie Havens Where They Once Never Could Have Been Imagined
For years, if your stomach was rumbling at the mall, an airport or a baseball stadium, the pickings tended to be slim, if not grim. Now that the foodie craze has gone fully mainstream, even these destinations are welcoming celebrity chefs and fancy dishes that transcend the old mall food court.
Snowden Fallout Compels Email Service To Shut Down
Lavabit, an email service offering encrypted communications that are supposedly impenetrable by third parties, shut down this week after it came to light that National Security Administration leaker Edward Snowden was using it to communicate from Moscow. Snowden’s Lavabit address was revealed by Tanya Lokshina, Deputy Director of Human …
The Great Debate: Do Millennials Really Want Cars, or Not?
Why are young people less likely to purchase cars, or even have driver’s licenses nowadays? One theory has it that the generation that came of age with the Internet and smartphones thinks cars are pretty lame. Automakers prefer to see the situation differently — that young people today love cars just as much as any other group, but …