Corporate America

How Lame Is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Nelson Montana | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment


Nelson Montana

How is it that a bunch of label executives have become the arbiters of who's worthy of honor and who isn't? It's the very antithesis of Rock and Roll!

Overthinking to Stinking: The Dangers of Overly Complicated Marketing

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business


Sarah O'Leary

A unique marketing idea is like a rock on the side of a riverbank. It has flat spots and rough spots and points and dips and crags and a host of things that make it different from the rest.

The Shriver Report Shows the Importance of Being a Real Cougar Woman

Linda Franklin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living


Linda Franklin

For the first time in history, one-half of all U.S. workers are women, and mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in two-thirds of American families.

Obama Business Tax Plan Kiled After Outcry

wsj.com | NEIL KING JR. And ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business


The Obama administration has shelved a plan to raise more than $200 billion in new taxes on multinational companies following a blitz of complaints fr...

How Did That Idiot Become My Boss?

Simon Sinek | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business


Simon Sinek

As people get more senior, they move from being doers to being thinkers and managers, but most companies don't train people how to manage or think.

Do Corporate Giants Own Your Favorite Organic Label?

DivineCaroline | Brie Cadman | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green


As the market for organic and natural foods has dramatically increased over the past few decades, and large megastores like Walmart and Costco have go...

Pamplona Bulls Wall Street Bound?

Dan Dorfman | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business


Dan Dorfman

Corporate insiders are making it loud and clear that they don't believe we're over the economic hump, despite observations to the contrary.

WATCH: Chevron's Ecuador Problem Forces Andy Rooney to Drop the H-Bomb...Something He Really, Really, Hates to Do

Paul Paz y MiƱo | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green


Andy Rooney hates what Chevron is doing -- leaving 18 billion gallons of wastewater and 17 million gallons of crude oil to pollute Amazonian communities, and then trying to pretend that nothing ever happened.

Healing America (and What One Man Is Doing)

Beth Arnold | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics


Beth Arnold

A man I've come to know a bit is a blues musician named Delmark Goldfarb from Portland, Oregon. He's producing a concert titled "Balance the Bucks", a rally against greed.

New York's Consumerism

Reverend Billy | Posted 09.10.2009 | New York


Reverend Billy

Consumerism is what they call a "totalizing system." It expands outward across the landscape and simultaneously into the individual's psyche. It must expand.

Jack Welch Sounds False Note on Women in Corporate America

Julie Menin | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business


Julie Menin

We have a long way to go in providing opportunities for women in corporate America, but we'll never get there if the attitude is that a woman "can't" have it all.

Fighting Teamwork

Jonathan Littman | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business


Jonathan Littman

Ringelmann showed that three men only pull as hard as two and a half men, and eight only pull as hard as four. Far from synergy, group effort creates an inverse productivity ratio.

Manufacturing and the Limits of Comparative Advantage

Ralph Gomory | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business


Ralph Gomory

Vague talk about future innovations, a post-industrial society, or an explosion of services exports is not the stuff on which to bet the prosperity of a nation.

Fear and Looting in America: How Wealth Begets Wealth on the Hill

Les Leopold | Posted 07.07.2009 | Business


Les Leopold

This shift in wealth in America since the 1970s created an unholy cycle of more lobbying for more benefits for the super-rich and large corporations, who in turn paid for even more lobbying -- a cycle that still is in full motion.

How Much Of Coporate America Does The U.S. Own?

The Atlantic | Conor Clarke | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business


As you've probably heard by now, Obama is sending General Motors to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And, as you've also probably heard, the United Sta...

Autopsy Shows Corporate America Dead. Cause: Timidity

Mike Hegedus | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business


Mike Hegedus

Every marketing and branding guru worth his or her salt will tell you that in the vacuum created by a down economy is where market share is to be gained.

Executive Pay and What to Do About It

Burton L. Wise | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business


Burton L. Wise

Small shareholders in large corporations must form organizations to unify and organize their votes advance their interests and attempt to limit the out-of control remuneration of these executives,

How To Live On $0 A Day: Bargain Hunting Tips For Corporate Execs

Lesley Stern | Posted 06.11.2009 | Comedy


Lesley Stern

Let me be the first to extend the olive branch to corporate America with a few ideas on how to save millions of dollars on basic necessities. Let's start with something easy, like plumbing.

Mother's Day for the Motherless

Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living


Leeat Granek, PhD

My mother was my best friend and we could spend hours together without ever getting bored or tired of each other. In fact, there was no one I wanted to spend time with more.

How to Make Your Assistant Not Hate You on Administrative Professionals' Day

Lilit Marcus | Posted 05.22.2009 | Comedy


Lilit Marcus

Since that surly kid who brings your coffee in every morning seems to dislike you as much as the surly kid who ignores you from the other side of the breakfast table, this is your chance to use Administrative Professionals' Day to your advantage.

Capitalism - the Gift That Keeps on Taking: Part II

Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


Michael Gene Sullivan

History shows that capitalists, like wars, earthquakes, and floods, will always wreck our country -- the only difference being natural disasters don't also rob us in the process.

Capitalism - The Gift That Keeps On Taking - Part III

Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


Michael Gene Sullivan

Capitalism is self-sustaining like a cancer - it sustains itself as it kills it's host.

Obama and the Age of Empathy

Dev Patnaik and Peter Mortensen | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business


Dev Patnaik and Peter Mortensen

Rather than look inward for additional cost cuts they can develop, it's high time that executives inside companies get outside of their bubbles and discover what the rest of the world needs from them.

If Aristotle Ran General Motors

Tom Morris | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business


Tom Morris

Goodness is important in many forms. An automaker should care about its customers, and design cars for us that are good in many ways -- safe, reliable, inexpensive to operate, and well designed to meet our needs.

Bringing Democracy to Corporate America

Richard Arthur | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business


Richard Arthur

It will not be painless but it is difficult to imagine it not happening -- the tools exist, corporations have proven that they need oversight and we need to protect our investments.