Suppliers

CHICAGO - Retailers have cash on their balance sheets and nearly half of 100 top retail executives said they are planning to spend it on technolog...

In the sorting out of the wreckage after Japan's earthquake and tsunami, many Americans have begun paying more attention to a phrase they had barely known -- "supply chains."

The disaster in Japan threatens to significantly impede the nation's economic recovery, perhaps spreading to other nations, say economists. The worst...

Companies have wasted millions of dollars and countless hours of employees' time agonizing over the wording of statements that are inscribed on plaques and hung on walls. But this obsession with words belies one very large problem: There is almost no correlation between the words on the wall and the behavior of leaders.