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Leading Innovation Through Methodical Experiments

Peter Sims | Posted 09.29.2008 | Business


Peter Sims

The lessons are simple: leaders that give employees permission run low-risk experiments are much more likely to innovate their products

Steve Zaillian's The Grand Bazaar

One For The Table | Posted 09.15.2008 | Style


One For The Table

Strangest of all, there are, separated only by the prairies of asphalt, four mattress stores: Mattress Depot, Select Comfort, America's Mattress, and Sleep Country USA.

Microsoft To Deploy "Gurus" To Stores Like Best Buy, Circuit City

AP | RACHEL METZ | Posted 09.06.2008 | Business


NEW YORK _ As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representat...

Peaceful Revolution: Stop Watching The Clock

Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson | Posted 06.10.2008 | Living


Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson

In 2000, Best Buy Co., Inc. was like most Fortune 100 companies. People scrambled to get to work on time, got stuck in endless meetings, felt overwork...

On Wasting Time: Are You Reading This at Work?

Laura Vanderkam | Posted 06.02.2008 | Living


Laura Vanderkam

One of the great things about being a writer is having an excuse to interview fascinating people. For instance: Carol Fassbinder-Orth, a rising young biologist. She grew up on an apiary featuring 100 million bees.

Is Best Buy Buying Netflix?

Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 05.17.2008 | Business


A reader says there was chatter to that effect this afternoon, as Netflix (NFLX) pushed 6% higher on high volume. Would this make sense? Only if Best...

Blockbuster's Questionable Bid for Circuit City

Scott Anthony | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business


Scott Anthony

Combining Blockbuster and Circuit City seems like a pretty bad idea. Each company has distinct strategic issues to address. A merger could very well distract them from the task at hand at the exact worst time.

Half Of All Teens Refuse To Buy CDs

Los Angeles Times | Michelle Quinn | Posted 02.26.2008 | Business


Nearly half of all teenagers bought no compact discs in 2007, accelerating the music industry's painful transition from CDs to digital downloads, acco...

Bad Times At Best Buy

Forbes | Ruthie Ackerman | Posted 02.15.2008 | Business


Best Buy seems like it should be the best-equipped electronics retailer to handle a difficult economic environment. The well-regarded company has the ...

Best Best Sued For $54 Million After Losing Customer's Laptop

Engadget | Nilay Patel | Posted 02.13.2008 | Business


We've definitely heard some horror stories about Best Buy, but it looks like a DC woman named Raelyn Campbell has had enough: she's opening up a big c...

Top 10 Business Debacles Of 2007

Consumerist | Posted 12.31.2007 | Business


Maybe we're just getting better at the job but it seems like the debacles this year were bigger and more scandalous than last year. Every time we turn...

Coach, Best Buy Lure Shoppers With Instant Checkout

Bloomberg | Cotton Timberlake | Posted 12.24.2007 | Business


U.S. retailers, confronting what may be the worst holiday-sales season in five years, are trying to get shoppers out of their stores. The FAO Schwarz...

Circuit City "Very Dissatisfied"

AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 12.21.2007 | Business


Electronics retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. on Friday reported a wider-than-expected loss for the third quarter, driven by lower extended warranty s...

DVDs: "It's A Wonderful Life," Again?

Michael Giltz | Posted 12.19.2007 | Entertainment


Michael Giltz

Everyone knows that the Jimmy Stewart film It's A Wonderful Life ($24.99; Paramount) is a classic. If you don't own it, you should. It's even more pow...

Best Buy Profits Jump 52 Percent

AP | Joshua Freed | Posted 12.18.2007 | Business


Electronics retailer Best Buy Co. said Tuesday its third-quarter profit jumped 52 percent, boosted by an extra week of holiday shopping and sales of h...

Black Friday: Shoppers Flock To Discount Outlets

New York Times | MICHAEL BARBARO | Posted 11.23.2007 | Business


American consumers flooded stores yesterday on the traditional first day of the holiday shopping season, but the irrational exuberance of the Black Fr...