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Women played a traditional role at the national political conventions of the past two weeks, especially in the speeches given by Ann Romney and Michelle Obama. The first lady and the Republican candidate’s wife both used the lens of the family to argue that their husbands should be president. This week on WNYC’s Money Talking, TIME’s …
When Wharton operations and information management professor Katherine L. Milkman was earning her doctorate at Harvard University in business and computer science, it became clear that she would pursue a career as a professor. As …
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It wasn’t what the Obama Administration wanted to hear. The new employment figures out this morning show that the U.S. economy created a mere 96,000 jobs in August, far fewer than the 130,000 that most economists were …
The Democratic party spent all week (and millions of dollars) trying to convince voters to return President Obama to office in November. But perhaps the most important set piece — the August employment situation report — was …
The headline for a recent Detroit News story has it that the “20,000 sales target [is] unlikely” for the Nissan Leaf. But “unlikely” is probably understating things. It appears as if Nissan won’t get halfway to its 20,000-Leaf …
According to recently released U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics, U.S. milk sales came to about 6 billion gallons last year. Sounds like a lot, but it’s actually the lowest total since 1984. Why are we drinking less milk?
In 2006, the average NFL ticket sold for $62, and fans had a reason to complain because that price represented a 5.6% increase from the year before. Granted this isn’t an apples-to-apples comparison, but as the 2012 NFL season …
So far there have been no foot-in-mouth moments from Vice President Joe Biden, but sharp-eyed viewers of the Democratic National Convention may have caught a pretty good gaffe during last night’s festivities.
While we’ll let our colleagues over at TIME Swampland wade into the political debate around Medicare, here’s one idea both …
If your boss continually piles work on your plate, even when it’s not related to your goals, learn to say no. Pushing back can be tricky, so handle the request carefully:
ECB plan to buy sovereign bonds of euro nations under market attack marks significant shift in policy
If you’ve gone through the effort to hire the right people for the job, you want them to stay. So what makes employees want to stick around?
In the travel world, fees charged by airlines get the most attention, and for good reason: Fliers forked out $22.6 billion in airlines fees last year, on top of flight prices that seem to be hiked higher every other month. …
