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- Will Super Bowl 2010 Be a Bust for Miami?
- Cities aggressively woo the Super Bowl to bring money to town. But the payoff usually isn't worth it.
- The Problem with Your Performance Review Feedback
- In short, it doesn't work. Charles Jacobs, author of "Management Rewired," explains why no matter how you dish it out, your employees will never ...
- Why You're Doing Performance Reviews All Wrong
- Three common ways managers misuse the performance review -- and what to do instead to make these meetings more effective.
- The Decisive Moment: My Big Drug Buy
- Schering-Plough CEO Fred Hassan steered the company through dire times. Then he proceeded to make the biggest acquisition in the companys history. Heres how ...
- How Its Bold Acquisition Made Schering a Takeover Target
- "The promise of this combination is profound," CEO Fred Hassan said when Schering bought Organon in March 2007. That proved true, but in a ...
- The Side-Effects of a Giant Merger
- Morningstar healthcare industry analyst Damien Conover explains the fallout from Schering's $14 billion purchase of Organon in 2007.
- Fred Hassan: How I Beat the Odds on a $14 Billion Drug Deal
- Schering-Plough took over a Dutch biotech, Organon, and integrating the business and then got swallowed up by Merck.
- Domino's New Recipe -- Only 50 Years Overdue
- Domino's Pizza remade its pizza recipe after 50 years as a way to gain customers who want more than speedy delivery.
- Business Blunders of the Year
- Introducing the BNET B-List: The 77 stupidest managerial moves and worst business blunders of 2009. To reach the pinnacle of the business world ...
- Oracle Passes Last Test for Sun Takeover
- The No. 2 software maker Oracle is close to finalizing its transformational merger with Sun. A wedding party is scheduled for January 27.
- Can’t Pay Your Employees What You’d Like? Praise Them Instead.
- Managers are piling on the praise as a way to motivate workers. Here's how to do it.
- 7 Ways to Build a Loyal Team
- Employee loyalty isn't dead -- but thanks to the Great Recession, it has taken a severe beating. If you're going to get the most ...
- How Teams Dress for Success
- Research shows that people who spend time together begin to dress alike. Here's how managers can make sure this works for their teams, not ...
- Five Supreme Court Cases to Watch
- The legal landscape of business could change significantly. This term, the countrys highest court could redraw the map with rulings on everything from innovation ...
- Business Innovation on Trial
- Most innovation today comes in the form of digital pixels and brilliant but intangible ideas. Patent law, however, is largely stuck in the Industrial ...
- Do Corporations Have the Right to Free Political Speech?
- The McCain-Feingold Act sharply curtailed how companies can express support (or disdain) for particular political candidates. But a case before the Supreme Court could ...
- Who Fixes Botched Pensions: Companies or Courts?
- Former Xerox employees have waited more than a decade to resolve a pension dispute. Wasnt ERISA supposed to make the process less complicated? The ...
- Perspective: The App-Phone Revolution Is Well Underway. So Where's Microsoft?
- The software giant may be making a mistake playing the waiting game; tech wars arent fought that way anymore.
- AOL Sets Out to Reinvent Itself – Again
- AOL is getting spun off from Time Warner after a nearly decade long disastrous marriage. The company is now banking much of its future ...
- Supreme Court Reconsiders Corporate Fraud and Conrad Black
- Can an executive commit criminal fraud if his actions dont do any financial harm to a company or its shareholders? Convicted former newspaper tycoon ...
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A new reality show, Undercover Boss, has CEOs of big companies posing as entry-level employees to see what's really going on in the trenches. Sounds good on paper, but it...
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