MTV used to be a parent-free zone, but over the last several years the network has overhauled its programming to cater to a generation that views Mom and Dad more as friends than enemies.
When It Comes to Strategy, Size Doesn’t Matter
You don’t need a mountain of fancy resources to craft a strategic roadmap for your business, but you do need to give up a lot of preconceived notions about strategy.
Use Your Crowd to Source Ideas
Skilled networkers use their contacts as a source of quick feedback and even solutions to challenges of all sorts. If your network is strong, you’re connected to well-placed colleagues, suppliers, customers, and fellow executives in your field — a host of experts who can help you at a moment’s notice. For example, if you’re …
The Hot New Online Retail Strategy: Pushing More In-Store Purchases
You’d think that when retailers enhance their online shopping options, the goal would be increased online sales. Not so with Target, Gap and Rite Aid — which are adding new online tools with the hopes of boosting in-store sales.
The IRS Was Wrong — But Many Political Groups Should Not Be Tax-Exempt
Let’s start with the obvious. Those IRS employees who singled out conservative groups for scrutiny over their tax-exempt status were wrong, wrong, wrong. Any whiff of politics at the agency is unacceptable, and this is far more than a whiff. In time, we shall see how far up the agency food chain the scandal goes.
But this unsavory …
What Bloomberg’s Snooping Scandal Says About Wall Street’s Culture
On Wall Street, it’s all about finding an edge — no matter how small or seemingly insignificant. Whether it’s a snippet of chatter in a restaurant, a stray comment on the squash court, or a scrap of barroom banter after work, …
Chuck E. Cheese: Where a Kid Can Gamble Like an Adult
What with all the flashing screens, dinging bells, and glazed-over customers absorbed in the games at hand, a Chuck E. Cheese arcade bears quite a resemblance to the slot machine section of a casino. Are kids, in fact, gambling in between their pizza and soda?
The New Retirement: Forget Being Rich, All We Want Is Peace of Mind
Four years after the recession ended we are still getting signals that our values have changed–at least partly of necessity.
5 Lessons from Warren Buffett’s Letters
Berkshire Hathaway’s chairman has a reputation for eloquence in his annual shareholder letters. Here are five gems from over the years.
Forget ‘Buy American’? U.S. Retailers Push an ‘Imports Work’ Campaign
Wanna support American workers? Buy imports. So says a new report, which claims that a cheap, robust imports marketplace not only helps American workers and families, but local farmers, manufacturers, and small businesses as well.
Please Don’t Use a ‘Best Places to Retire’ List to Decide Where to Retire
It can be confusing to make sense of the many “best places to retire” lists out there. Here’s the good news: you can ignore all of them
The Real Reason We Should Cheer the Cellphone “Unlocking” Law
On its face, a bipartisan bill introduced in the House of Representatives last Thursday to permanently legalize cellphone “unlocking” isn’t particularly groundbreaking. There seems to be consensus in Washington that …