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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."
Posted 10.27.2009 | Business
More than a year after overleveraging and mismanaged risk provoked a financial crisis that sent the global economy on a perilous downward spiral, anal...
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
Our failure to educate all our children to the highest levels means students in America overall are being left behind in a world where global competition is increasingly tough.
Pablo Triana | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business
The dirty little secret of B-schools is that, even if they wanted to, they may not be able to unshackle themselves from practical irrelevance.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media
When desperate companies like Condé Nast hire McKinsey, there is often a lot of blather about how this is a positive step. And then a day very much like today always comes.
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 09.30.2009 | Style
When you're in the business of selling life as it should be lived, like in the movies or, say, in the pages of Vanity Fair, then you've got to keep the dream alive, depression 2.0 be damned.
The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 09.23.2009 | Media
The execs told representatives from Details, Traveler and Glamour that they needed to cut their budgets next year by roughly 25 percent--"25-ish perce...
The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
The Observer has learned that McKinsey consultants are winding down their tour of Conde Nast, and will be ready to submit their final recommendations ...
Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
Based on a recent study by the consulting firm McKinsey, a $5.2 billion investment in energy efficiency can result in a savings of up to $1.2 trillion by 2020.
The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media
As McKinsey & Company makes its way through an 11-week tour of Condè Nast, consultants have been taking an early look at Anna Wintour's Vogue and Kla...
The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media
We're still eight weeks away from McKinsey actually handing out down recommendations for whatever painful cuts they devise to help boost the publisher...
RJ Eskow | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
Why not create a new national mission, on the scale of the mission to the Moon? We'll need to study, identify, and reduce the use of unneeded and harmful medical procedures within ten years.
The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media
Conde Nast has hired the consultant group McKinsey & Company to help "rethink" how the company does business. This is by far the biggest step Si Newho...
Paul Brest | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business
The nonprofit marketplace doesn't exhibit the single most essential characteristic of a well-functioning market: open exchange of high-quality information that helps people make good decisions.
Michael Sigman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
My earliest memory of an inspiring title was The Miracle Worker, which I loved because that "miracle" suggested an astonishing achievement against impossible odds.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics
Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it.
GlobalPost.com | Jason Overdorf | Posted 01.18.2009 | World
NEW DELHI -- Swami Bhakti Gaurava Narasingha paddles hard and drops into a 6-foot wave off the coast of Mangalore in South India. As the 61-year-o...
Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green
Eating less beef improving home insulation, and driving less and more efficient vehicle, are getting short-changed, and should become the focus of targeted communication efforts.
Julia Moulden | Posted 10.28.2008 | Living
The Social Capital Markets 2008 Conference (SoCap) is the world's first conference to bring institutional and individual investors together with social entrepreneurs.
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 10.23.2008 | Living
A recent CNN article explains well why a growing number of companies use brainteasers and logic puzzles of a type called "guesstimations" during job i...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics
If you thought the Republican primary field was a bit of a joke, wait until you get a closer look at the front runners for the vice presidential slot.
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
Chelsea may have to wait to run for President until her mother has given up on the dream of sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office and resigned herself to being a power in the Senate.
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Jon Younger | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business