In a nutshell: Gaining Minority-Owned Business Enterprise status can help businesses bidding for government contracts. Governments at all levels have made efforts for decades to ensure that minority-owned businesses get a …
There’s good news for college graduates looking for a job: Companies are hiring. An annual survey of U.S. employers done by Michigan State University (MSU) estimates hiring will increase an …
It’s a common issue for many organizations. Top executives establish brand-specific goals, promises and beliefs but, when it comes to consistently communicating them to customers, employees fail to deliver. The …
Women are changing the look of today’s workplace. Offices once dominated by men now have nearly just as many women. More women than men are earning college and advanced degrees. …
A survey on the compensation of 300 U.S. CEOs showed much of their pay is connected to performance and the returns they deliver to their shareholders. An annual pay survey …
Google is using its Google Capital investment arm to put $300 million into technology start ups, including $40 million into an online education software company. About $40 million of the investment money is going into Renaissance Learning Inc., a Wisconsin-based education software company.
Rhode Island-based CVS announced this week that it would stop selling cigarettes in its stores, saying that such sales are not conducive to a store that is trying to focus more on providing healthcare products.
The move, while perhaps popular with the CVS target audience and partners in the healthcare industry, will prove expensive for the retailer.
Microsoft appointed a new chief executive officer for just the third time in company history this week, tapping Satya Nadella to lead the 38-year-old software giant.
Nadella will replace Steve Ballmer, who had announced last summer that he would leave the company within a year.
Facebook posted a 76% growth in advertising revenue in the final quarter of 2013, a number that surprised Wall Street experts, according to multiple news sources.
The increase, according to Forbes, is primarily the result of better advertising pricing. The Facebook mobile platform is also gaining in popularity, with record revenue growth in the fourth quarter.
JPMorgan announced this week it will give $1 million to schools to improve higher education courses for United States military veterans.
In a press release, Maureen Casey, the director of military and veterans affairs for JP Morgan, said the money is meant to help veterans make the transition from serving their country in a military capacity to the working world.
