The problem with an employment contract is that it doesn't answer the fundamental question of why employees choose your company rather than another. This is the question answered by an "employment brand."
msn.com | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
AP - NEW YORK - Shannon Burdette tried to pay with her Shell Mastercard after filling up her gas tank this weekend but found the card rejected. Confu...
Kevin Grandia | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
With a clean energy bill making its way through the Senate and the upcoming international summit on climate change in Copenhagen, you can bet the PR spin from industry and think tanks is only going to get louder.
Anne Butterfield | Posted 10.15.2009 | Denver
The planet's survival relies partly on a climate bill but mostly on continued grassroots assault on coal plants and other offenders, plus disruptive clean technologies to take our markets by storm.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
The refineries in this country still using unnecessarily hazardous hydrofluoric acid must ensure their workers and the residents of their neighborhoods live to see Labor Day 2010.
James Hoggan | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
As the most profitable company in the history of companies, Exxon is in a position to do a huge amount of good -- or to continue doing a huge, huge amount of damage.
Jerry Cope | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green
After years of climate change denial, a consortium of energy industry giants led by ExxonMobil and Massey Energy are launching a global campaign to provide island nations with equipment to combat rising sea levels.
The Media Consortium | Posted 08.24.2009 | Green
Last week, Wal-Mart, ExxonMobil and AAA announced new programs that promote sustainability and a cleaner planet. Are their efforts actually a case of corporate greenwashing?
James K. Boyce and Manuel Pastor | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green
ExxonMobil just had another banner year. Despite the global economic slowdown, the oil company now tops the Fortune 500 in both profits and sales. It's also ninth in a less salubrious list -- the "Toxic 100."
Ben Wikler | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green
While ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies now talk a good game on climate change, they're still lobbying full-force to prevent a strong global climate treaty.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green
Ten tragic lessons in our nation's environmental history that should never be forgotten. And one climate destabilization tragedy in the making that needs our urgent help.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business
A multiplicity of factors are in play that for the first time will begin to end the oil cabal's long and painful hegemony over our lives.
Reuters | Luke Pachymuthu | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business
Exxon Mobil Corp is in constant dialogue with Baghdad to create the investment climate that would allow it to become a significant player in Iraq's en...
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 03.03.2009 | Business
How many Americans would have a little more in their savings accounts to see them through tough times if some new alibi didn't enshrine each new high in the price of oil?
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business
No, it's not about your local gas station not getting a loan from its bank to keep it in business. It is far more insidious. It's about hundreds of millions of TARP dollars being spent on oil speculation.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business
Gas prices are down -- it's party time! All it takes is a hearty appetite, and a good-old-American willingness to forget that the rest of the storm is still headed our way.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 12.17.2008 | Business
What a boon it would be to have a renaissance of our historic "Detroit Arsenal," with our government and the automobile industry working together once again on a program critical to the nation's well-being.
Chelsea Green | Posted 12.11.2008 | Green
Every so often an idea comes along that rings with such clarity and purpose that it ignites the imaginations of millions of people. That spark of exci...
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 12.01.2008 | Business
In breathtaking example of the manner in which oil has corrupted the Bush administration we have prima facie evidence of the perverted priorities of the last eight years.
AP | Posted 11.30.2008 | Business
HOUSTON - Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, says it shattered its own record for the biggest profit from operations ...
Riki Ott | Posted 07.30.2008 | Green
No community should have to go through what we have been through. Livelihoods have been lost, financial stress has broken families apart, and businesses supported by fishermen have crumbled.
Alan Fein | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business
With more concentration of market power in the oil industry, more manipulation of supply, and more profiteering in the absence of competition, the drilling debate is just an attempt to change the subject.
Dr. James Hansen | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green
Yesterday, I testified to Congress about global warming, 20 years after I first alerted the public that warming was underway. There are striking similarities between then and now, but one big difference.
BusinessWeek Via MSN | Posted 03.29.2008 | Business
Reports of slackening demand sent oil down another 2.5% on Thursday to $101.84 per barrel. Crude prices have declined 7.6% since the beginning of the ...
Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on how much money ExxonMobil should be forced to pay as damages for its Exxon Valdez oil spill 19 ye...
Jon Younger | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business